NAME : Dr. JOHN J. LAL.
ADDRESS : CHAIRMAN
(PRESENT) CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,OLLUKKARA P.O.,
THRISSUR., KERALA, INDIA
email: [email protected]
Mob: 9447271986
(PERMANENT) JEEVAS
TC 24/24
PANAVILA JN.,
THYCAUD, KERALA, INDIA
e-mail. [email protected]
Ph: 91 0471 2335440
AGE AND DATE : 38 YEARS , 11-03-1966
OF BIRTH
SEX : MALE
MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
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DEGREE UNIVERSITY YEAR OF PASSING CLASS
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Ph.D. BIOCHEMISTRY KERALA 1998
BEd. NAT. SCIENCE KERALA 1990 FIRST
M.Sc BOTANY KERALA 1989 FIRST
B.Sc. BOTANY KERALA 1987 FIRST
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TITLE OF Ph.D. THESIS
EFFECT OF CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES BY RATS DURING PREGNANCY ON DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF THE FETUS.
MAJOR FINDINGS
1.Assessed the congeners (non-ethanolic components) in arrack and coconut palm wine (toddy), two indigenous beverages of Kerala, India
Congeners potentiate the toxicity produced by alcohol.
Beverages excerts toxic effects on lipid metabolism,
carbohydrate metabolism and liver functions of
dams/fetus and is a major teratogenic agent than its
equicaloric amount of ethanol.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
1. Nutrition Research Centre Research Associate 1998-1999
2. Resource person/winter school/dept. of dairy science, college of veterinary and animal sciences, Mannuthy,Kerala Agri. University.
3. Resource Person/One Day State levels workshop on Anemia held at Trivandrum.
4. Chief Editor, CDST Bulletin.
5. Editor, Journal of Phytochemicals
5. Chairman of the organising committee, National Seminar on Phytochemicals and Nutrition held at Hotel Pankaj, Trivandrum on 8th January, 2001.
AFFILIATIONS
1. Life member Nutrition Society of India.
2. Member Association of Food Scientists and Technologists.
3.Chairman, Centre for Development of Science and Technology
(CDST), Ollukkara, Thrissur, Kerala, India.