Education
Duke Univeristy, Durham, NC
Ph.D Candidate in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Expected date: 2011
Advisor: Dr. Robin Wharton
Anna University, Chennai, India
B. Tech. Biotechnology, June 2006
Passed with First class with distinction
Research Experience
Participated in an experimental research project on "Epidemiological studies on E.coli and classification of E.coli strains based on their outer membrane proteins" under the guidance of Dr. K. Sankaran, Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University. (April - July, 2003)
Completed a project on "Study of plasmid copy number regulation in E. coli rho and nusG mutants" under the guidance of Dr. J. Gowrishankar, Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, CDFD, Hyderabad, as a Summer Research Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (May - July, 2004).
Participating in an ongoing project on "Comparative Proteomic Analysis of the Outer Membrane Proteins of Clinical Isolates of Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)"
Publications
A.R. Pavankumar, J. Sujatha and K. Sankaran (communicated). Multi Drug Resistance in Community Isolates of Diarrhoeagenic E. coli: Insight into Genetic Mechanism of Antibiotic Resistance, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Technology Skills
Dreamweaver
Blackboard
PowerPoint
