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Dr. RADHA DEVI G M

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Dr. RADHA DEVI G M

Assistant Professor

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Botany.(Ph. D)-Phytochemical fingerprinting and Molecular Characterization of Costus pictus  (Insulin plant). Department of Botany, Bengaluru University in 2022 February. Under the guidance of Dr. T G Umesh Professor,  Department of Botany, BUB.
  • Master of Philosophy in Botany, (M. Phil) in 2009 from Periyar University, Periyar India. On Micro-propagation of Cissus quadrangularis   Under the guidance of Dr. Tejavathi Professor,  Former Faculty of Department of Botany. BUB.
  • Master of Science in Botany (M.Sc) in 2004 from Department of Botany, Bengaluru University, Bengaluru,.
  • Bachelor of Science (B. Sc) in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology in 2002 MES college, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru,
  • Pre-University PCMB (Physics, Chemistry,  Mathematics, Biology) from Vivekananda College. Rajajinagar, Bengaluru. 

  • Served as a lecturer for 7 years teaching Biology to Pre-university students, and Botany for Graduates. In MES college Malleshwaram,  and KLE's Nijalingappa college,  Rajajinagar,  Bengaluru. 

  • Worked as a tutor in BASE tutorial for students aspiring to take up NEET exams.

  • Field collection of Medicinal plants from Calicut University and Mysore University. 

  • Worked with Government College of Pharmacy for 6 months. 

  • Metabolites (HPTLC) work carried out from Forensic Department. 

  • LC-MS, HPLC, NMR work with IISc,  IIHR,  GKVK. 

  • Plant tissue culture, Phytochemicals analysis, Isolation of DNA, Plant breeding and Hydroponics farming.(Plant tissue culture, Plant genetics, Plant taxonomy, Phytochemical finger printing , Molecular characterization, Plant physiology)

  • MS Office,  SPSS-Data Analysis.

Honors and achievements

  • Awarded with Best poster award in 2013 in International conference” Amrita Bioquest” Organized by Amrita University,  Amritpuri. Kolam.

Conferences Attended

  1. 34th Annual meeting of Plant tissue Culture Association (India) and National symposium on Plant Tissue Culture and Nutritional Security March 11-13, 2013, Mysore. Organized by Plant Cell Biotechnology Department. CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute.

  1. First International and third National Conference Biotechnology, Bioinformation, Bioengineering 28-29 June 2013, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, Organized by Society for Applied Biotechnology (India).

  1. National Conference on Plant Biology 2013, NCPB Plants, Planet 24th-27th September 2018.

  1. 3rd International Conferences on Recent Advances in Engineering Sciences. ICRAES-2018. 26th-27th September 2018 organized by Ramiah Institute of technology.

  2. International Conference on Medicinal plants Drug Discovery (ICMPD) July 18-20 (2018) Organized by V. Sivram Research Foundation.

  3. Biomolecular Separation techniques one week faculty Development programme 27th  Feb February March 2017. BMS college of Engineering Bengaluru India.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

  1. Invitro propagation and phytochemical analysis of Costus pictus 

  2. Quantification of Diosgenin by HPLC and HPTLC techniques from in-vitro raised plants and in-vivo Costus pictus D.Don plants

  3. Chromatographic determination of phenolic compounds from the leaves of Costus pictus D.Don.

POSTER PRESENTED:

  1. An efficient micropropagation system in-vitro and anti-oxidant activity of Costus pictus D.Don.

  2.  Regeneration of Costus pictus through multiple shoots derived from Nodal explants and Evaluation of genetic fidelity through DNA based markers.

  3. Effective regeneration of Costus pictus through Multiple shoots derived from Nodal explants.

 

Publications

  1. A Comprehensive review on Costus pictus.D.Don. (2019) International Journal of Pharmaceutical sciences and Research (IJPSR).  Volume 10 Issue 7; 3187-95.

  2. Quantification of Diosgenin by HPLC and HPTLC techniques from In-vitro plants and In-vivo raised Costus pictus.D.Don plants. International Journal of Photochemistry July-Dec 2018. Volume 4, No.2, 2018. Journals/pub.

  3. Authentication of Costus pictus.D.Don, A medicinal plant by PCR based RAPD Marker. International Journal of Advanced Scientific Research and Management. Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2019. 226-233.

  4. Comparative phytochemical Analysis of in-vivo and in-vitro derived Costus pictus D.Don plants by HPTLC. International Research Journal of Pharmacy. Volume 10, Issue 9, 167-174.

  5. Quantitative phytochemical and chromatographic analysis of phenolic compounds in methanolic leaf extract of Costus pictus.D.Don.Journal of planar chromatography. Modern TLC.November 2021.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00764-021-00128-2.

 

Projects

1. Guided 2 M.Sc  students project during the due course of my  Ph.D;  on phytochemical screening of medicinal plants. 

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