Shilpi Garg

Hello! I'm Shilpi. I have done my B. Sc. in Zoology (Hons.) from Maharani College, Jaipur and M.Sc. in Zoology from University of Rajasthan. I've qualified CSIR - UGC NET JRF examination in June, 2002. Right now I'm working as SRF in Biological Sciences Group and carrying out my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Ashis Das. My field of work includes drug resistance in malarial parasite and studies related to severe malaria caused by the parasites.

Courses taught / teaching

I've been instructor of following courses in the past semesters

Research

At present my field of research includes studies on various aspects of Malarial parasites. The major one being Drug resistance in malarial parasite.

Publications

Saxena, V., Saxena S., Ranjan S., Kumar VS., Escalante A., Kochar DK, Ranjan, A., Das, A. (2005) Analysis and Structural comparison of elongation factor Tuf A from Apicoplast genome of Plasmodium vivax (manuscript in preparation).

      Saxena S, Saxena V, Kochar DK¹, Ranjan A², Das A. Severe malaria   caused  by Plasmodium vivax with Type 1 CSP repeats, at International Conference on Malaria conducted by MRC, India from November 4 - 6, 2005.

 Poster Presentation:

Saxena S, Saxena V, Kochar DK¹, Ranjan A², Das A. Characterization of Dihydrofolate Reductase gene of Plasmodium vivax severe malaria cases, at International Conference on Malaria conducted by MRC, India from November 4 - 6, 2005

Other Interests

Listening music, reading novels,

Playing Badminton, etc...