August-2006 Doing PhD from Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
May-2006 to July 2006,DFG sponsered Graduate Training Programme, from University of Saarland, Germany.
Nov-2005 to March-2006 worked as Junior Research Fellow under
Prof. Mitradas M. Panicker, Stem cells Research Laboratory, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. The work involves Cell adhesion and adhesion related molecules.
Masters Research Work
June 2004-July 2005 Masters Research work on Designing a peptamer antagonist to Cholesterol Esterase under the guidance of Prof.S.Shanmugasundram, Department of Microbial Technology, Madurai Kamaraj University. The aim of the research was to control the bioavailability of cholesterol from intestine, this will help to treat obesity, and obesity related diseases. More information
www.peptideengine.com
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
1)Thirupugal G, Suguna S, Shanmugasundaram S,Designing Peptamer antagonist to pancreatic cholesterol Esterase in the National level �AQUA-TERR� symposium at Madurai Kamaraj University in Feb 2005.
2)Participated in all India national seminar on cardio-genomics held at Madurai Kamaraj University in March 2004.
3)Participated in all India National Seminar on Cancer Genomics held at Madurai Kamaraj University in February 2004.
3)Thirupugal G, karthik P, Prabakaran G, �Male specific Phages and their applications in Medicine� in the state level symposium on �Recent Trends in Microbial Biotechnology� AVS College of Arts & Science, India.
5)Thirupugal G, Prapakaran G,�Pheromones in r-DNA Technology� in the state level symposium on Biotechnology, Periyar University, India.
SEMINARS/ASSIGNMENTS
Construction of an Expression cassette in Dopamine BiosynthesisDesigning of Humanized Streptokinase by Domain EngineeringGreen Fluorescent preotein and their applications