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P. R. Deepa

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Applied Biochemistry
Chamber No. 3277-S, Faculty Division III, New Science Block
Department of Biological Sciences,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Course Teaching & Research Supervision

 Courses at Dept. of Biological Sciences, Pilani Campus

 

BIO F111     GENERAL BIOLOGY

BIO F211     BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 

BIO F244     INSTRU METHODS OF ANALYSIS

BIO F315     APPLIED NUTRITION & NUTRACEUTICALS

BIOT F424   FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY

BIO F421     ENZYMOLOGY

BIOT F416   INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
  
Collaborative Programmes  - Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division:

          2005 - 2018:  Involved in teaching of following courses in the collaborative programmes, M.S. (Medical Laboratory Technology),  B.S.(Physician Assistant), B.S. (Optometry) and M.Phil (Optometry) that includes classroom lectures and laboratory practicals.

  
Course Title Course No. Units
Basic Biochemistry -1 OPTO ZC141 3
Basic Biochemistry - 2 OPTO ZC162 3
Biological Chemistry              PATFL ZC141 3
Clinical Biochemistry  PATFL ZC152 5
Scientific Measurements PATFL ZC132 3
Molecular Genetics                                   PATFL ZC282 3
Food & Nutrition in Health        MLTSN ZG611 4
Enzymology & Metabolism in Health    MLTSN ZG512 3
 
Few modules in the following courses:
Recent  Advances in Optometry         OPTO ZG644 4
Geriatric Optometry                                   OPTO ZC382 1
Ocular Physiology OPTO ZC152 3
Technical Communication                    MLTSN ZG659 4
Technical Report Writing                   PATFL ZC261 3
 
 
Practice School Division, BITS Pilani :

 2005 - 2018:   Involved in mentoring, and evaluation of performance, of Final year First Degree and Higher Degree students pursuing structured Internship (PS-II) course, in research labs/industries at Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore & Mumbai.

   Practice School-II                        BITS C412 / BITS C413 / BITS G639               20 Units

 2013 - 2018:       Involved in mentoring, and evaluation of performance, of Second year First Degree (Integrated and Dual) students pursuing structured Summer-Term Internship (PS-I) course at Medical Research Foundation - Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai.

    Practice School-I                          BITS C221 / BITS C231 / BITS C241              5 Units           

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 PhD Thesis Supervision:

            Graduated :                Three    (June 2013, June 2015, June 2016)

            On-going students :   Four  
           
Broad areas of doctoral dissertation research in our lab: Molecular mechanisms & Pharmacological/Clinical targets in Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), Cancer biology, Lipogenic targets in Cancers and other Chronic Diseases, Nutritional Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, and Protein Biochemistry, Natural Products and Drug-repurposing.
 
Sponsored Project Research Fellows supervised:
 

ICMR -SRF: 1  [2011-2014];   DBT-SRF: 1 [2012-2015]  

 
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