Publications
Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil, Vijayalakshmi Perumalsamy, Periasamy Sundaresan. Spectrum of candidate gene mutations associated with Indian familial oculocutaneous and ocular albinism. Molecular Vision 2010; 16:1514-1524.
Novel Mutations Submitted to Albinism Data Base:
(i) Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil, Vijayalakshmi Perumalsamy, Periasamy Sundaresan. Human Genetics 2009; 125:340 [PMID: 19309806]
(ii) Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil, Vijayalakshmi Perumalsamy, Periasamy Sundaresan.
http://www.retina-international.org/sci news/mc1rmut.htm. July, 2010.
Kathirvel Renugadevi, John Asnet Mary, Vijayalakshmi Perumalsamy, Suresh Seshadri, Sujatha Jagadeesh, Beena Suresh, Sheela Nampoothiri, Rajaiah Shenbagarathai, Sankaran Krishnaswamy and Periasamy Sundaresan. Molecular Genetic Testing for Carrier- Prenatal Diagnosis and Computational Analysis of Oculocutaneous Albinism Type 1. J Genet Disor Genet Rep 2014, 3:2.
Karthikeyan Arcot Sadagopan, Renugadevi Kathirvel, Rosanne B. Keep, P.Sundaresan, Hui Huang, Arndt Rolfs, Kannan Parthiban & P. Vijayalakshmi. Cutaneous freckling: Possible new clinical marker for the diagnosis of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome in Indian Asian patients with oculocutaneous albinism. Ophthalmic Genetics. DOI:10.1080/13816810.2016.1183217. Published online: 13 May 2016.
Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil, Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi, and Periasamy Sundaresan. Molecular Genetic Analysis and Diagnosis of Albinism Patients in India. JSM Genetics & Genomics, 2017; 4(1): 1024.
Conference/Workshop Attended
Presentation in International Conference:
Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil, Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi, and Periasamy Sundaresan. “Screening of OCA and OA gene variants in Indian Albinism Patients” at the 17th Annual Meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, Madurai, India -2008.
Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil, Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi, and Periasamy Sundaresan. “Genetic Analysis of Indian Oculocutaneous Albinism Patients” was presented at Asia ARVO, Hyderabad, India -2009.
Periasamy Sundaresan, Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil and Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi. “Spectrum of Candidate Genes Mutation Associated with Indian Familial Oculocutaneous Albinism Patients”. ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA 2010.
Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil, Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi, and Periasamy Sundaresan. “Molecular Genetic Analysis of Tyrosinase (TYR) Gene with Oculocutaneous Albinism (OCA) Patients in Indian Population” at Asia ARVO, Resort World Sentosa, Singapore -2011.
Kathirvel Renugadevi, Asim Kumar Sil, Perumalsamy Vijayalakshmi, and Periasamy Sundaresan. “Novel Mutations in MC1R Gene: First Evidence for OCA Type II Disease in Indian Population.” ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. 2011.
Presented as two posters: Kathirvel Renugadevi, John Asnet Mary, Vijayalakshmi Perumalsamy, Suresh Seshadri, Sujatha Jagadeesh, Beena Suresh, Sheela Nampoothiri, Rajaiah Shenbagarathai, Sankaran Krishnaswamy and Periasamy Sundaresan. “Molecular Genetics and Functional Analysis of genes involved with Albinism in India” and “Prenatal diagnosis of Oculocutaneous Albinism type 1 disease by gene sequence based approach” in 10th Annual Research Advisory Committee Meeting held at Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Madurai -2011. (Awarded as first best poster presentation).
Kathirvel Renugadevi, John Asnet Mary, Vijayalakshmi Perumalsamy, Suresh Seshadri, Sujatha Jagadeesh, Beena Suresh, Sheela Nampoothiri, Rajaiah Shenbagarathai, Sankaran Krishnaswamy and Periasamy Sundaresan. “Prenatal Molecular Diagnosis of Fetal Sample” at ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA -2012.
Periasamy Sundaresan, Kathirvel Renugadevi, John Asnet Mary, Vijayalakshmi Perumalsamy, Suresh Seshadri, Sujatha Jagadeesh, Beena Suresh, Sheela Nampoothiri, Rajaiah Shenbagarathai and Sankaran Krishnaswamy. “Genetic Carrier Screening for Oculocutaneous Albinism in India.” ARVO, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. 2012.
Conference, Seminars and Cultural activities attended:
Participated in Intensive training course in Bakery and Confectionery conducted in Lady Doak College, Madurai on 2nd to 16th May, 2000.
Participated in Two week training course in Domestic preservation of fruits and vegetables and Nutrition conducted at the Community Food and Nutrition Extension Unit, Lady Doak College, Madurai on 16th May to 31st May, 2000.
Participated in a short term course on Interior Decoration from 27th Nov to 08th Dec 2000 at Lady Doak College, Madurai.
Attended one day Training on Mushroom Cultivation held at the Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai on 16th July 2001.
Attended Summer placement on job training in Medical Microbiology in college of Allied Medical Sciences from 2nd May to 30th May 2001.
Participated in Essay Writing Competition in Wild-Life week celebrations held at Dept. of Zoology, Lady Doak College, Madurai on 5th October 2001.
Participated in CYNOSURE 2002 a display of the longest write up about the college held at Lady Doak College, Madurai on 26th January 2002.
Participated in the Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp in Non Conventional Energy Sources conducted at Lady Doak College, Madurai on 14-15 February 2002.
Participated in the Science Day and Aqua-Terr Annual Symposium conducted by the school of biological sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai held on 28th February 2003.
Attended Summer training in “Studies on the production of microbial protease and its characterization in Dept. of Biotechnology, Central Leather Research Institute from 12th May to 18th July 2003.
Participated in National Seminar on Cancer Genomics conducted by Centre for Advanced Studies in Functional Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai on 28th February 2004.
Participated in the National seminar on Cardio Vascular Genomics conducted by Centre for advanced studies in Functional Genomics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai on 29th March, 2004.
Participated in the Science Day and Aqua-Terr Annual conference conducted by the school of biological sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai held on 5th March 2005.
Participation in Seminars/Workshops at Thiagarajar College:
Workshop on effective evaluation methodologies on 26.02.2018 at Thiagarajar College, Madurai.
Hands on training on Zebra fish (Danio rerio) model for research and drug development on 22.05.2018-23.05.2018 at MHRD-centre, Thiagarajar College, Madurai.
Art of writing research papers, project proposals and patent filing on 17.10.2018 at Thiagarajar College, Madurai.
Digital learning through web resources on 27.02.2019 at Thiagarajar College, Madurai.