CURRICULUM VITAE

Name : Dr. TUKARAM PANDHARIPANDE

Fathers Name : Narayanrao Deorao Pandharipande

Date of Birth : 23rd December. 1963.

Nationality : Indian

Passport No. :G 5008031 (Valid up to 06th Sep., 2017)

Address : Diamond Building - 2F,

Jaycee Nagar, Curti,

Ponda,

GOA- 403401

INDIA

e- mail : abvu5i@r.postjobfree.com

Linkedin : http://in.linkedin.com/pub/dr-tukaram-Pandharipande/39/910/a73

Contact : +91-982*******

Educational Qualifications:

Title Year University Subjects

B.Sc. 1985 Nagpur University Botany, Zoology, Chemistry.

(India)

M. Sc. 1987 Nagpur University Zoology with Entomology sppecialization.

Ph. D. 1991 Nagpur University Insect Tissue and Cell Culture.

(India)

Post-doctoral 1992 Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture & Tech. Japan. Insect Tissue and Cell Culture.

Doctor of Agric. 1995 Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture & Tech. Japan. Insect Tissue and Cell Culture.

Research Experience:

M. Sc. Dissertation:

In vitro cultivation of hemocytes and ovarian tissues of the dessert locust, Schistocerca

gregaria (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

Ph.D. Research:

Establishment of fat body cell line from Mythimna sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and its

utilization for in vitro propagation of Nosema locustae (Protozoa: Microsporida).

Post-doctoral Research:

Acetylcholine esterase activity of insect cells in culture.

Doctor of Agric. Science:

Establishment of continuous cell lines from the silkworm, Bombyx mori and their

characterization.

Teaching Experience: (1 year).

Apr. - 1992 to Mar. - 1993.

Teaching assistant:

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

Industrial Work Experience: (12 years).

1) Aug. - 1999 to Jan. - 2007:

R & D Officer

Sisco Research Laboratories Private Limited, Mumbai.

The responsibility was to establish manufacturing facility for dehydrated microbiological

media of International Standards and high quality.

During this period responsibilities handled included-

Designing the manufacturing facility for dehydrated microbiological media.

Handling of purchases.

Installation of Class 100,000 Air Handling System, air conditioners and

dehumidifiers.

Selection and installation of production machineries.

Establishment of Quality Control Laboratory.

Production and Quality Control of raw materials and finished products.

Recruitments of technical and non-technical staffs.

Handling of manpower.

Maintaining raw material inventories and Monitoring of environment.

Preparing required documentation.

Technical marketing by visiting the customers.

Successful handling of customer queries and complaints.

Designing attractive price-lists, product labels, etc.

All documentation as per ISO 9001: 2000 accreditation and facing its audits successfully.

2) Feb. - 2007 to Aug. - 2012:

Production Manager- DCM

Merck Specialities Private Limited, Goa.

The responsibilities included-

To establish and maintain a world class manufacturing facility for dehydrated

microbiological media of International Standards and high quality.

The selection and installations of Production machineries and establishment of

Quality Control Laboratory successfully.

Production, R & D, Quality Control of raw materials and finished products, Quality

Assurance.

Establishing Regulatory Certification System for raw materials and finished products

of animal origin.

Preparing required documentation.

Recruitment of technical staff.

Handling of manpower.

Maintaining raw material inventories.

Monitoring of required environment in the manufacturing facility.

Technical marketing by visiting the customers all over India, handling queries and

complaints.

Periodic trainings of microbiology sales and marketing staff.

Developing customized products.

Editing manual for culture media products.

Designing product labels.

Vendor qualification, In-puts to raw material vendors for quality of materials and

various regulatory systems.

Developing Indian Vendors for Merck- India and Merck- Germany, especially for raw

materials of animal origin.

Documentation as per ISO 9001: 2008 accreditation and facing its audits successfully.

Handling customer visits to the facility and satisfying their queries.

Awards and Honors:

Recipient: International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada- Senior

Research Fellowship for Ph. D. (Jun. - 1987 to Apr. -1990).

Recipient: Monbusho Scholarship (Govt. of Japan) for Post-doctoral Research and

Doctor of Agric. Science. (Jan. - 1991 to Mar. - 1995).

Guest Lecture (Oct. - 1991): Address to Annual General Conference of Japanese

Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology. (The lecture has been published by

Insect Pathology Research Society, Japan, Proceedings No. 61: pp. 2 – 5, 1992).

Winner: The first Japanese language speech contest for foreigners in Fuchu c ity,

Tokyo, organized by Tokyo Musashi Fuchu Rotary Club, Tokyo (May, 22 nd – 1993).

Languages known:

ENGLISH

HINDI (Indian National Language)

MARATHI (Mother tongue)

JAPANESE

URDU

Extra curricular activities:

Study of Butterflies.

Collection and study of currencies and coins all over the World.

Publications:

Pandharipande, T. N. (1990-91). Butterflies of Nagpur city, Central India

(Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). J. Res. Lepidoptera, 29(1-2): 157- 160.

Khurad, A. M.; Raina, S. K. and Pandharipande, T. N. (1991). Establishment of

pupal fat body cell line from Mythimna convecta and its susceptibility to Nosema

locustae (Microsporida). Proc. VIII Intl. Conf. Invertebrate and Fish Tissue

Culture (M. J. Fraser, Jr. Ed.). Anaheim, California, USA. : pp. 26-35.

Khurad, A. M.; Raina, S. K. and Pandharipande, T. N. (1991). In vitro propagation

of Nosema locustae using fat body cell line derived from Mythimna convecta

(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). J. Protozoal. 38: (6): 91s-93s.

Pandharipande, T. N. (1992). Establishment of fat body cell line from Mythimna

sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and its utilization for in vitro propagation of Nosema

locustae (Protozoa: Microsporida). Proc. Insect Pathol. Res. Soc. Japan, No. 61:

pp.2-5.

Pandharipande, T. N. (1994). Two new continuously growing cell lines from the

silkworm, Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae). Appl. Entomol. Zool. 29 (4):

604-607.

Ohbayashi, H.; Pandharipande, T. N.; Mitsuhashi, J. and Sato, K. (1997).

Acetylcholinestearase activity of insect cells, in particular flesh fly cells, cultured

in vitro. Appl. Entomol. Zool. 32 (1): 22.

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