Participated and presented a paper in a two days National Seminar on Biodiversity and its
Conservation from 28 th -29 th of August 2009 arranged by Kittel Science College Dharwad, Karnataka.
 Participated and presented a paper in a three days National Seminar on Recent Trends in Botany
from 28 th – 30 th January arranged by K. J. S. College, Kopargaon, Maharashtra.
 Participated and presented a paper in a two days National Seminar on Current Trends in Medicinal,
Aromatic plants and Plant products from 17-18 th March 2012 arranged by Dept. of Botany, Osmania
University, Hyderabad.
 Participated and presented a paper in a two days conference on Recent trends n Biosystematics from
30 th Sep and 1 st October 2014 arranged by Dept. of Botany, JSS College, Dharwad, Karnataka.
 Participated and presented a poster in a two days National Seminar on Secondary metabolites from
Endophytic fungi and Medicinal plants with anticancerous properties from 5 th and 6 th March 2015,
arranged by Dept. of Biotechnology and Microbiology Dept, Bangalore University, Bangalore, ,
Karnataka.

Attended a ten days workshop on APPLICATION OF TAXONOMY IN PROSPECTING GENES AND THEIR
PRODUCTS BENEFICIAL TO HUMANS from 17 th -26 th March 2009 arranged by Centre for
Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems, University of Delhi.
 Attended an International Symposium on Darwinism.

Isolation and characterization of Scopoletin - an anticancerous compound from the bark of
Hymenodictyon obovatum WALL
Ranjita R. Kurdekar, Ganesh R. Hegde, Manohar V. Kulkarni and Gangadhar S. Mulgund. Int. J.
Pharmaceutical Phytopharma. Res. 2014 3(6):469-471.
 Antimicrobial screening of medicinal plants against human pathogens - a comparative account of two
different methods of extraction
Ranjita R. Kurdekar, G. R. Hegde, Gurumurthi Hegde and S. S. Hebbar, Int. J. Drug. Dev. Res. 2012
4(1):24-31.
 Antimicrobial screening of tree barks of Heterophragma quadriloculare (Roxb.) K. Schum. and
Hymenodictyon obovatum Wall. from Kumta and Dharwad, Karnataka, India. Int. J. Med. Arom.
Plants, 2012 2(1):167-171.
Irawwa B. Gokak, Reshma Goundi, Ranjita R. Kurdekar and G. R. Hegde
 Antimicrobial efficacy of Bridelia retusa (L.) Spreng. and Asclepias curassavica L
Ranjita R. Kurdekar, G. R. Hegde and S. S. Hebbar. Indian J. Nat. Prod. Res. 2012 3(4):589-593