Rachana Jayant Muley

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT RACHANA JAYANT MULEY

20••••24) A federal Government employee working as a Laboratory Analyst at Canadian Food Inspection Agency (National Center for Animal Diseases, NCAD) labs. Projects involved in,\"Analyzing COVID-19 diagnostic samples, Also perform diagnostic testing for Avian influenza (AIV) samples, and actively involved in Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) testing, particularly surveillance testing of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and scrapie. Also assist in the postmortem of the research animals at CFIA and perform histopathology on the tissue samples.(20••••20) Graduate thesis (M.Sc.) at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Canada. Project title “Elucidating the mechanistic role of eIF5B in non-canonical translation during oral squamous cell carcinoma progression” (20••••17) Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at the Department of Biophysics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in Peptide- Chemical Biology Lab project titled “Designing of a cell-permeable and a selective inhibitor for protein phosphatase 1(PP1)” (20••••14) A graduate student (M.Sc.) at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. Graduate thesis accomplished at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India Project titled “Characterization of Enzymatic Activity of RNA Triphosphatase (RTPase) Domain of Large Protein of Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus” (2013, May-July) Summer Research Fellow at Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus (UDSC), Delhi, India offered by the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS). The project titled “In silico Drug designing against Dopamine Beta Hydroxylase” Additional Skills:>3 years experience in Mammalian cell culture, 3 years of experience in diagnostic testing in ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory, 2.5 years experience in teaching Chem labs, training Undergrads, experience in cell-based assays, and immunoassays like ELISA.