MLACW (now mLAC) is an institution of excellence located strategically in the vicinity of national institutes of repute, such as Indian Institute of Science, Institute of Wood Science & Technology, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Raman Research Institute and Central Power Research Institute.
Dr. Kamala A
Head of Department2020
Ph D
Tumkur University
2008
M.Phil (Life Science)
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
2004
MSc (Biochemistry)
Bangalore University
2002
BSc (Chemistry, Botany,Zoology)
MLACW
AUGUST 2019 TILL DATE
Associate Professor
mLAC
JULY 2004- JULY 2019
Assistant Professor
MLACW
Enzymology, Protein chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Clinical Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Plant Tissue Culture, Molecular Biology, Biochemical Techniques.
Certificate Course in Creative Teaching
Certificate Course in Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics from University of Cape Town
Member, BOE, Bangalore University
Member, BOS, Bangalore City University
Member, BOE, Nrupatunga University
Member, BOE, Indian Academy College, Autonomous
Deputy custodian, UG 2021 exams, mLAC
Custodian, PG 2021 exams, mLAC
Science coordinator, mLAC
Chairperson, BOE and BOS, UG Biochemistry, mLAC
Member-Timetable committee
Coordinator- BVoc in Medical Laboratory Technology
Coordinator- Attendance Committee
Backup coordinator- Biotechnology Skill Enhancement Program (BiSEP)
Addon course incharge- Medical Laboratory Techniques
Star Program Core Committee Member
LMS and Documentation Committee Member
Admission Counseling Member
Time table Committee (PG) member
Academic audit Committee Member
College E-news letter team Member
Alumni Committee member
Founder's Day Committee member
Chief examiner, PG Examination 2019-20, mLAC
BOE Chairperson, B.Voc in Medical Laboratory Technology 2020-21, mLAC
BOS Chairperson, B.Voc in Medical Laboratory Technology 2020-21, mLAC
BOE Chairperson, B.Voc in Medical Laboratory Technology 2019-20, mLAC
Member BOS, PG Biochemistry 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 mLAC
Member BOS , UG Biochemistry 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 mLAC
Member BOS, B.Voc in Medical Laboratory Technology, mLAC
Chief examiner, Dept of Biochemistry, Bangalore University, 2017-18
Member BOE, PG Biochemistry 2016-17, 2017-18; 2018-19, mLAC
Member BOE , UG Biochemistry 2017-18, mLAC
Member BOE- B.Voc in Medical Laboratory Technology, 2016-17,2017-18, 2018-19, mLAC
Member BOE- B.Voc in Medical Laboratory Technology, 2014-15,2015-16 , Bangalore University
Life member in Proteomics Society of India
Life member- Indian Immunological Society
Conferences Attended
2022
Title: Talk on Women in Leadership
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC
Date: 31st Jan 2022
Duration: One day
Title: Workshop on Animal Cell Culture Techniques
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC
Date: 20th – 22nd April 2022
Duration: Three day
Title: Hands-on workshop on “Immunochemical Techniques”
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC
Date: 28th April 2022
Duration: One day
Title: Talk on Women Health- A Psychiatrist’s perspective
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC and Bharavase (NGO)
Date: 10th Jun 2022
Duration: One day
Title: Hands-on workshop on “Basics of Bioinformatics”
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC
Date: 28th July 2022
Duration: One day
Title: Awareness program & Free health Check-up on World Diabetes Day
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC and Bharavase (NGO)
Date: 14th Nov 2022
Duration: One day
Title: Hands-on workshop on “Basics of Haematology”
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC
Date: 16th -17th Nov 2022
Duration: Two day
2021
Title: Two-day Workshop on “NAAC Accreditation Process In The New Format – Role Of Teachers And Non-Teaching Staff”
Organizer: IQAC, mLAC
Date: 15th – 16th Jan 2021
Duration: Two day
Title: Webinar on “Brain storming on assessment and accreditation framework of NAAC”
Organizer: IQAC, PIMS
Date: 12th to 13th March 2021
Duration: Two day
Title: Webinar on ““Quality Initiative in Research-Creating Vidwan ID”
Organizer: Research Committee, mLAC
Date: 19th May 2021
Duration: One day
Title: Webinar on “Steps to Effective Mentoring”
Organizer: IQAC, mLAC
Date: 13th May 2021
Duration: One day
Title: Webinar on “Use of Digital Resource in Library”
Organizer: IQAC, mLAC
Date: 7th May 2021
Duration: One day
Title: National Virtual Conference on Advances in RNAi Technology
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, mLAC
Date: 1st – 3rd June 2021
Duration: Three day
Title: National Virtual Conference on Forensic Science: Fundamentals and Investigations
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC
Date: 10th June 2021
Duration: One day
Title: “WORK ETHICS- A QUALITY INITIATIVE”
Organizer: IQAC, mLAC
Date: 14th June 2021
Duration: One day
Title: “NEP 2020-Step towards implementation at mLAC”
Organizer: IQAC, mLAC
Date: 18th June 2021
Duration: One day
Title: Online Workshop on “Antimicrobial Drug Resistance”
Organizer: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore and Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, Delhi
Date: 25th Aug 2021
Duration: One day
Title: Virtual National Conference on “Neurochemistry & Technology”
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC
Date: 10th and 11th Dec 2021
Duration: Two day
2020
Title: Webinar on " Enhancing Research Effectiveness using Scopus, Science direct and Mendeley"
Organizer: Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra in collaboration with Elsevier
Date: 1st May 2020
Duration: One day
Title: Webinar on “COVID-19: Understanding its Epidemiology”
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, INDIAN ACADEMY
Date: 14th May 2020
Duration: One day
Title: Faculty enrichment program on “Frontiers in Smart Learning”
Organizer: DBT- Star colleges, Bengaluru Cluster.
Date: 14th -16th May 2020
Duration: Three day
Title: Online Workshop on “Effective Online Teaching Learning strategies”
Organizer: National Institute of Technology, Thiruchirapalli
Date: 26th – 31st May 2020
Duration: Six day
Title: Webinar on Glial-Contribution to Neuronal Health and Disease
Organizer: Department of Biochemistry, mLAC
Date: 5th Jun 2020
Duration: One day
2021
Title: Two-day Workshop on “NAAC Accreditation Process In The New Format – Role Of Teachers And Non-Teaching Staff”
Organizer: IQAC, mLAC
Title: Workshop on "Flipped Learning"
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 16th Jan 2020
Duration: One day
Title: Refresher course on "Immunology"
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 25th Jan 2020
Duration: One day
Title: Workshop on "Approach to bleeding disorders: a hands on training"
Place: Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute
Date: 1st Feb 2020
Duration: One day
Title: National Allied Health Sciences Conference -"RGUHS-AHSCON-2020"
Place: NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore
Date: 2nd- 3rd Feb 2020
Duration: Two Day
Title: Workshop on "Emerging Leaders"
Place: Pegasus Institute for Excellence
Date: 8th- 9th Feb 2020
Duration: Two Day
Title: Workshop on "Flipped Learning"
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 17th Feb 2020
Duration: One day
2019
Title:National Conference on "Smart Synergy- Emerging trends in application of smart materials"
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 14th Feb 2019
Duration: One day
Title: One day workshop on "Biostatistics"
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:9th Mar 2019
Duration: One day
Title: One day workshop on "Instrumentation"
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:13th Apr 2019
Duration: One day
Title: One day workshop on Flowcytometry
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:12th Oct 2019
Duration: One day
Title: One day lecture series on Mendeleev’s Groups and periods- Nature to Nurture
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:17th Oct 2019
Duration: One day
Title: One day lecture series on Mendeleev’s Groups and periods- Nature to Nurture - Prof CNR Rao
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:18th Oct 2019
Duration: One day
2018
Title: Three-day workshop on “Next Generation Sequencing”
Place: Life science Research center and BIF centre, mLAC Bangalore
Date: 26th – 28th Feb 2018
Duration: Three day
Title: Mini symposium on “Genetics and Evolution”
Place: Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Date: 17th Mar 2018
Duration: One day
Title: Workshop on “Polymerase Chain Reaction”
Place: Life science Research center, mLAC Bangalore
Date: 20th March 2018
Duration: One day
Title: One day Workshop on “NanoTechnology and its role in Defence and other applications”
Place: SODET, BEL Officer’s Club, Bangalore
Date: 6th July 2018
Duration: One day
Title:National Level Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence and Health Care”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 7th September 2018
Duration: One day
Title: India International Science Festival (IISF)- 2018
Place: Indira Gandhi Prathisthan, Lucknow
Date: 5th -8th Oct 2018
Duration: Four Day
Title: “Center stage in cell culture”
Place: Eppendorf India, Gold Finch Hotel , Race Course Road, Bangalore
Date: 30th Oct 2018
Duration: One Day
Title:"Bangalore Tech Summit"
Place: Palace Grounds, Bengaluru
Date: 29th Nov-1st Dec 2018
Duration: Three day
Title: Bengaluru India Nano- "Nano for a better world"
Place: Lalit Ashok
Date: 5th -7th Dec 2018
Duration: Three day
Title: One Day Workshop on "Research Methodology"
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 8th Dec 2018
Duration: One day
2017
Title: STEM workshop on “Research Based Pedogogical Tools for Science Teachers”
Place: Teaching Learning Center, Tezpur University, Assam
Date: 27th -30th Jan 2017
Duration: Four day
Title: National Conference on “An Integrated Approach to diagnosis and therapy in cancer”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 7th -8th Mar 2017
Duration: Two day
Title: Faculty development workshop on “Analytics with R in collaboration with Predictive Analytics”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 20th Mar 2017
Duration: One day
Title: Two day Lecture Workshop on “ From Genetics to Genome engineering- new Vistas in Life Sciences”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 12th -13th September 2017
Duration: Two day
2016
Title: National level Symposium on “DBT –Heralding a New Era for Bio-Innovation”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 16th -17th Feb,2016
Duration: Two day
Title: Lecture series on “Stem cell Applications”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 29th Feb, 2016
Duration: One day
2015
Title: National Conference on “Trends in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 27th - 28th September 2015
Duration: Two day
Title: “Importance of Biostatistics and Technical Writing for the Better Understanding of Life Sciences”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 14-16th September 2015
Duration: Three day
Title: “Mini- Symposium on Biosciences”
Place: Indian Academy of Sciences Auditorium, RRI campus, Bangalore
Date: 1st Aug 2015
Duration: One Day
2014
Title:National-level Conference on “Waste Management towards sustainable development in Indian context”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:24-25th Jan 2014
Duration: Two Day
Title: “Computational Biology Applications”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:14-15th February 2014
Duration: Two Day
2013
Title: Regional-level Seminar on “Think, Eat, Save. Reduce the Food Print”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:5th Jun 2013
Duration: One Day
Title: 3rd National Conference on Agribiotechnology “ Biotechnology a Versatile Tool for Agricultre in the Emerging Context”
Place: Taj West End, Bangalore
Date: 10-11th December 2013
Duration:Two Day
Title: 5th Annual Meeting of “Proteomics Society of India on Medical Proteomics”
Place: IISc, Bangalore
Date: 28-30th November 2013
Duration: Three Day
Title: Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge & Biotechnology
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date:9th November 2013
Duration:One Day
2012
Title: One day Lecture on “Nutraceuticals”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 14th Jan 2012
Duration: One Day
Title: National-level workshop on “An in silico & in vivo approach to prokaryotic gene expression”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 14th - 17th Mar 2012
Duration: Four Day
Title: Training Programme on “Research Methodolgy, Data Management and Biostatistics using Web based Statistical Software”
Place: ChanRe Health Care and Research Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Date: 4- 5th August 2012
Duration: Two Day
Title: One day Interaction workshop on “Harnessing biofuel for Green, Clean World”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 30th Aug 2012
Duration: One Day
Title: National Conference on “Computational Biology, Pharmaceuticals and Life Science”
Place: Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bangalore
Date: 23-24th November 2012
Duration: Two Day
Title: Hands-on Training on “Application of GC and HPLC techniques in Biotechnology and Pharma Industry”
Place: Vittal Mallya Scientific Research Foundation, Bangalore
Date:9-10th November 2012
Duration: Two Day
Publications
2018
Kamala A, Middha SK, Gopinath C, Sindhura HS, Karigar CS. In vitro Antioxidant Potentials of Cyperus rotundus L. Rhizome Extracts and Their Phytochemical Analysis. Pharmacogn Mag. 2018;14(54):261-267
Kamala A, Middha SK, Karigar CS. Plants in traditional medicine with special reference to Cyperus rotundus L: A Review. 3 Biotech. 2018; 8(7):309. doi: 10.1007/s13205-018-1328-6.
2021
Dey, Swarna Kamal; Middha, Sushil Kumar; Usha, Talambedu ; Hemavathy, Ekambaram ; Foudah, Ahmed Ibrahim; Kamala Arunagiri ; Samual, Rosa J; Yusufoglu, Hasan Soliman; Goyal, Arvind Kumar Scientific validation of toxicological and anti-hyperglycemic effect of Bambusa tulda leaf Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 2021, Vol 20(4), pp 920-926
2022
Talambedu Usha, Prachurjya Panda, Arvind Kumar Goyal, Anusha A Kukanur, Arunagiri Kamala, MK Prasannakumar, K Sidhalinghamurthy, Sushil Kumar Middha. Whole-Genome Sequencing of Plants: Past, Present, and Future. In: Singh, R.L., Mondal, S., Parihar, A., Singh, P.K. (eds) Plant Genomics for Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6974-3_8
Projects
Projects
Dr Sushil Kumar Middha , Kamala A , Usha T
calendar_today 1st May 2019
Project Coordinator
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Funds Generated: ₹ 700000
Dr. Nagalaxmi B N , Dr. Shashikala A , Dr. Vijayadeep C , Dr.BABITHA.B , Kamala A , Dr. Renuka Srihari
calendar_today 9th Feb 2018
Project Coordinator
Funding Agency: DBT, Funds Generated: ₹ 1900000