PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Applied Sciences
 
Department: BOTANY
Phone: 7205208896
 

About Me

Dr. Anisetti Siva Sankar works as an Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, at the Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha India. He has received his M.Sc.(Biotechnology) and M.Phil (Life Sciences) from Berhampur University and Sambalpur University, India respectively. He has joined as Junior Research Fellow for two years and Senior research fellow for three years with the help of a UGC funded National fellowship at School of life sciences, Sambalpur University. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Science, in 2019, from Sambalpur University, for his research on “Taxonomical diversity of earthworms from southern parts of Odisha using DNA Barcoding technique”. He has presented 15 Paper at many national and international conferences. He has published a good number of research papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals, 2 book chapters both of them are from Excel india Publisher. He has attended many workshops and training programs in his research area.

 
Research Fields

  • Molecular Ecology
  • Metabolomics
  • Ethnobotany
  • Molecular taxonomy
Teaching

  • Plant Physiology
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology

Expertise

  • Extraction and purification of nucleic acids and proteins
  • Electrophoresis of nucleic acids and proteins
  • DNA Marker analysis
  • Genotyping of mapping populations
  • DNA barcoding
  • RT PCR and expression studies
  • Microbial techniques
  • Computational tools: SPSS; Free-Tree; Tree-View; NTSYS-PC; Structure; GenAlex; BLAST; PRIMER 3.0; MEGA; BioVia-DS2D
  • Electrophoresis
  • PCR
  • Primer Designing

Interests

  • Drug discovery
  • Phytochemistry
  • Cancer biology