Heena Panchal

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Objective:

To attain a challenging position that enables me to use my skills as well

as explore new avenues to enhance myself as a professional while contributing

to the organization’s success.

Work Experience:

1) 08/2010 - 04/2012

Shree Ramakrishna institute of computerEducation and Applied Science, Surat,

Gujarat India

Adhoc Lecturer in Biotechnology Department

Deliver daily lectures on Microbiology as per the prescribed syllabus.

Conduct demonstrations of practicals.

Take regular periodic tests.

Assessing students course work and material.

Involved in the set up of exams and the marking of results.

Responsible for the departmental administrative tasks.

2) 12/2012 - 03/2013

P R Khatiwala English medium high school., Surat, Gujarat India

Assistant Science Teacher

Taught science and moral science subject to class 6,7 and 8.

Prepared monthly reports for senior teachers.

Actively leading class discussions and encouraging debate.

Assessing students course work and material.

Education:

Master of Science in Microbiology– M. S. University of Baroda, India.

2008-2010.

Bachelor of Science in Microbiology – Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India.

2005 - 2008.

Skills:

Molecular Biology: Molecular cloning techniques, Gene expression and its

analysis, N terminal sequencer, Mass Spectrometry, PCR, Agarose gel

Electrophoresis, Genomic DNA / Plasmid DNA Isolation, Bioanalysis of RNA &

DNA, Western Blotting & Primer designing.

Microbiology: Isolation of bacteria, Growth characteristics, Antibiotic Assay,

Growth promotion Test,Bacterial motility test, Conjugation,Transduction,

Transformation etc.

Biochemistry:Biochemical analysis of sugar,protein amino acids,antibiotics,seperation of

biomolecules by chromatography(GC,TLC,HPLC),PAGE and spectroscopy.

Bioinformatics: Local and multiple alignments such as FASTA, BLAST, Clustal

W etc.

Enzymology: Enzyme kinetics (Effect of pH, temperature, substrate & enzyme

concentration on rate of reaction), Use of internal standards, Metabolic enzyme

assays.

Computer skills: Microsoft office Word, Excel, PowerPoint Platforms: Windows.

Thesis/Dissertation:

M. Sc. Dissertation: M.S.University of Baroda, India July 2008 – April 2010

Title:“Isolation and Characterization of Endophytes from Medicinal Plant”

Brief Summary of Dissertation work:

Endophytic bacteria were isolated from Chlorophytum borivilianum (Safed Musli),

a medicinal plant and screened for enzymes of biotechnological importance. Six

bacterial species were isolated from C. borivilianum. Isolated endophytes showed

different biochemical and morphological characteristics. Most of the isolates were

gram positive spore formers while one belonging to Pseudomonas group which

showed esterase activity. Several isolates were amylase and protease positive

and two were pectinase positive. Isolates were subjected to 16s r-DNA

sequencing and amplification. The bacteria isolated were Bacillus subtilis,

Bacillus pumilus, Bacillus megaterium, Staphylococcus pasteuri and

Pseudomonas mendocina.

Publications:

Panchal H and Ingle S “Isolation and Characterization of Endophytes from the

Root of Medicinal Plant Chlorophytum borivilianum (Safed musli) ” in the

Journal of Advances in Developmental Research. Volume 2,December 2011.

Presentation:

During Masters

Seminar: “Viral Evasion Strategies in MHC-I Antigen Presentation”. Nature

Reviews Immunology, 5th June, 2009,at Department of Microbiology, The

M.S.University of Baroda.

Paper Presentation: “Antibiotics as intermicrobial signaling agents instead of

weapons”, PNAS, 19th Dec, 2006,at Department of Microbiology, The

M.S.University of Baroda.

Project Proposal: Progeria: Trying to solve the premature ageing puzzle,at

Department of Microbiology, The M.S.University of Baroda.

Workshop / Seminar attended:

One day National level seminar on “Silencing the message mi and si

RNAs”, 2008, organized by Society of Biological Chemists, Baroda Chapter.

One day state level workshop on “research methodology”, 2011, organized

by Shree Ramakrishna institute of computer education and Applied Science,

Surat.

References:

1) Dr. Pratibha B. Desai (Director)

Shree Ramakrishna institute of computer education and Applied Science,

Surat, India.

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2) Dr. S. S. Ingle

Reader in Microbiology,

Dept. of Microbiology and Biotechnology Centre,

M.S. University of Baroda, India.

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