Academics Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Academics

Courses Offered - VIBS

	Masters Science (Medical Laboratory Technology)
	BS (Optometry), ESO
	BS (Ophthalmic Assistant)


Ph.D. Programme MRF & BITS
	Ph.D. Awarded :	Dr. Rajesh, NIH, USA Dr. K. Coral, Post Doctoral fellow, SN
	Current Ph.D scholars :	5 Student


Training programme
	Workshop - 1 (2003) - 22 students
	BITS-Summer school projects - 20 students (1997-2009)
	Internship projects
	Hands on summer training programme - Biochemistry 32 students (2003- 2009 )

on Graduation Day 12-09-2009

Hands-on summer training prog -2007

MSMLT, 3rd year student completedin Biochemistry internship (2007 - 2009)

S. No	Title of the project	Name of the students	YEAR
1.	1.Estimation of total homocysteine in plasma and ocular fluids using HPLC with fluorimetric detection. 2.Clinical correlation of homocysteine in ocular diseases.	N. Gomathy Iyer	2007 - 08
2.	1.Effect of all transretinoic acid on LOX specific activity and mRNA gene expression in ARPE-19 cells exposed to high concentration of glucse. 2.Standardisation of LOX isoforms by reverse transcriptase PCR and standardisation of retinoids by HPLC.	NN. Srikrupa	2008 - 09
3.	1.Determination of homocysteine thiolactonase activity and oxidative stress markers in the vitreous of PDR patients. 2.Invitro Effects of homocysteine and homocysteine thiolactone on homocysteine thiolactonase and arylesterase activity in bovine RPE cells.	P Aarti	2008 - 09

INTERNSHIP 3-4 MONTHS PROJECTS (DECEMBER 2008 - MARCH 2009)

S. No	Names	Title of the project
1	Mr. S. Praveen Kumar	Conjunctival impression cytology in normal vs. Dry eye syndrome
2	Ms. M.Sukanya	Standardization of extra cellular matrix isolation from cultured CHO-K1 cells.
3	Ms. M. Aarthy	Preliminary steps in Molecular cloning of Lysyl Oxidase Propeptide
4	Ms. Gayathri K	Isolation of Extra Cellular Matrix from ARPE-19 Human Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells.
5	Ms. Sudarshana N	Elucidation of structure function relationship in families of copper binding proteins in Homo sapiens - A study based on Bioinformatics.
6	Ms. Mathangi J
7	Ms. Charanya M	Structural analysis of five isoforms of Lysyl Oxidase using Bioinformatics tools.
8	Mr. Kalyanram R	Development of fluorimetric assay for the estimation of Lysyl Oxidase in human serum.
9	Ms. Shakthi Abirami M.M.	Effects of Chlorpyrifos on oxidative stress and extra cellular matrix of retinal pigment epithelial cells
10	Ms. Sangeetha K.	Lysyl oxidase assay by RT – PCR in retinal pigment epithelial cells
11	Ms. D.Gayathri Devi	Protein isolation techniques use of Biorad, Ecano pump system for the purification of lysyl oxidase from human vitreous sample.

BITS- Practice School-I, Summer programme (2008 - 2009)

S. No	Title of the project	Name of the students	YEAR
1.	Effect of Pesticides on viability and growth of retinal pigment epithelial cells.	K. Srawan kumar	June 2008
2.	Estimation of total Anti-Oxidant capacity and total thiol capacity in body fluids and especially in eye fluids.	Nadiminti Pavan kumar	June 2008
3.	Estimation of Glycosaminosglycans and Homocysteine estimation in the Serum analysis	Mr.Srivasstan	July 2009
4.	Effects of Environmental Pollutantson the Activities of Specific Enzymes in RPE Cells..	Mr. Sriram	July 2009