C. Usha

Assistant Professor

  • Name:

    C. Usha

  • Qualification:

    M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.,

  • Email:

    usha_zool@tcarts.in

  • Date of Join: 2022-08-12

Publications

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Conference/Workshop Attended

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Books Published

• Chockaiyan Usha, Pandi Sakthieaswari, Parameswaran Kiruthikalakshmi, Sakthieaswari Pandi. Chapter 6-Medicine at Nanoscale: A New paradigm for emerging trend of multidrug resistance in bacteria in the Handbook of Research on Nano-strategies for combating antimicrobial resistance and cancer, Published in the United States of America by IGI Global Medical Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), March 2021, ISBN13: 9781799850496, eISBN13: 9781799850502. Page 133-158. • Kiruthikalakshmi Parameswaran, Abirami Sitharanjithan, Meenakshi Selvaraj, Usha Chockaiyan, Sreegayathri Subbaraju, Sakthieaswari Pandi, Aarthy Kannan, Baby Sathiah. Chapter 6- PGPR: The Redeemer of Rice from Abiotic stress in the book Antioxidants in Plant-microbe Interaction, Published by Springer Nature, Singapore 2021 ISBN 978-981-16-1349-4, eISBN 978-981-16-1350-0. Page 101-135. • Usha Chockaiyan, Abirami Sitharanjithan, Kiruthikalakshmi Parameswaran, Meenakshi Selvaraj. Chapter 11- Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Nanotheranostics in the book Cancer Nanotheranostics (Volume 2), Published by Springer International, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-76262-9, eISBN 978-3-030-76263-6, Page 285-304. • Sreegayathri Subbaraju, Usha Chockaiyan, Sakthieaswari Pandi, Aarthy Kannan. Chapter 10-Nanoerythrosome - biohybrid microswimmers for Cancer theranostics cargo delivery in the book Cancer Nanotheranostics (Volume 2) Published by Springer International, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-76262-9, eISBN 978-3-030-76263-6, Page 261-284. • Kiruthikalakshmi Parameswaran, Sitharanjithan Abirami, Selvaraj Meenakshi, Chockaiyan Usha, Pandi Sakthieaswari, Kannan Aarthy, Subbaraju Sreegayathri, Sathiah Baby. Application of Deinococcus radiodurans for bioremediation of radioactive wastes (Chapter 39) in the book Microbes and Microbial Biotechnology for Green Remediation, Elsevier, 2022, ISBN 9780323904520 • Abirami Sitharanjithan, Sreegayathri Subbaraju, Usha Chockaiyan. Trichoderma as biostimulant - a plausible approach to alleviate abiotic stress for intensive production practices (chapter – 3) in the book “New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and bioengineering” Published by Elsevier, 2022, ISBN 9780323855778, Page 57-84. • Kiruthikalakshmi Parameswaran, Usha Chockaiyan. Emerging technologies to understand plant-microbe responses on climate change in the book Ecophysiology of plant stress mitigators, Published by Elsevier, 2022, ISBN 978-981-16-7758-8, page 451-468.

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  • Working History

  • Assistant Professor in Biotechnology

    05 Years and 08 Months

    Lady Doak College, Madurai

  • Assistant Professor in Zoology

    03 Years and 10 Months

    Lady Doak College, Madurai

Abroad

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Awards / Recognitions

• Recipient of First Rank in M.Sc. Degree Examination • Awarded Mercy Samuel Memorial Gold Medal for the best candidate in M.Sc. • Recipient of Summer Research Fellowship Award sponsored by IASc-INSA-NASI and worked under the supervision of Dr. D.P. Kasbekar, Haldane Chair, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics, Hyderabad.

Event Organised

• Organized Prof. Whitin Endowment Lecture Series Webinar on “Understanding Covid-19 vaccines: Transforming Hesitancy to Confidence” (24th September, 2021) • Organized Prof. Whitin Endowment Lecture Series on Nanotechnology: New Perspectives in Biomedical Applications (18th August 2016) • Organized a National seminar on “Emerging trends in Biological Research-Phase II” funded by University Grants Commission (16, 17th Sept. 2014). • Organized “Wildlife week celebrations cum Interdepartmental competitions” on ‘Bringing back Sparrows’ an awareness programme to conserve sparrows (Oct. 8th, 2014). • Organized “Wildlife week celebrations cum Interschool competitions” (Oct. 4th, 2013).

Achievements

• Resource person in MCB sponsored Guest Lecture on “Nanoparticles – An Emerging Technology” to Undergraduate and Postgraduate students of Microbiology and Biotechnology in The Madura College, Madurai 22nd January, 2020. • Served as Co-trainer in National level workshop on Animal cell culture techniques, organized by Department of Biotechnology, Lady Doak College, Madurai 4th to 8th September, 2017. • Completed online course -Cell Culture Technologies and Experimental Biotechnology offered by National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (Indian Institute of Technology & Indian Institute of Science) • Prepared an e-content - Short learning Object (SLO) on Deoxyribonucleic acid

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Society Detail Period
Asian PGPR Society of Sustainable agriculture From 2016 Life Membership
Tamil Nadu Science Forum From 2021 onwards Life Membership