Biological Sciences Division

Members

        K. Ananda
Assistant Professor
Phone: 080-274-08-551
E-mail: ananda at poornaprajna dot org
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Areas of interest

Endophytic fungi from medicinal plants, Bioactive compounds such as antimicrobial, anti-oxidants, anti-diabetic compounds from endophytic fungi, Bioconjugation of therapeutic proteins and PEGylation technology.

Curriculum vitae


2011- : Assistant Professor, PPISR, Bangalore, India
2010-2011 : Faculty Fellow, PPISR, Bangalore, India>
2004-2010 : Research Associate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
2004-2004 : Lecturer, P A College of Engineering, Mangalore, India
2003-2004 : Project Associate, IWST, Bangalore, India>
2000-2003 : Administrative Supervisor, KSRTC, Govt. of Karnataka, India
1996-2001 : PhD, Mangalore University, Mangalore, India.

Doctoral students

  1. Satish L.
  2. Pavithra N.

Selected Publications

  1. Garudachari, B., Isloor,A.M., Satyanarayana,M.N., Fun, H.K., Sathish, L., Ananda K., (2012) In-vitro Mycobacterium smegmatis and antimicrobial screening of some new quinoline 3-carbazide and 1,3,4-oxadiazoles, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (communicated)
  2. Remadevi, O.K., Veeranna,R., Tarakanadha, B., Ananda, K., Rao,K.S. (2012) Insect and fungal invaders intercepted from different species of wood imported into India,Indian Academy of Wood Science (communicated)
  3. Acharya, S. A., Intaglietta, M., Tsai, A. G., Ananda, K. and Meng, F. (2011) Engineering the Molecular Shape of PEG-Hemoglobin Adducts for Supraperfusion, in Chemistry and Biochemistry of Oxygen Therapeutics: From Transfusion to Artificial Blood (eds A. Mozzarelli and S. Bettati), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781119975427.ch25
  4. Ananda, K., Manjula, B. N., Meng, F., Acharya, V. N., Intaglietta, M., and Acharya, S. A. (2011) Packing Density of the PEG-Shell in PEG-Albumins: PEGylation Induced Viscosity and COP are Inverse Correlate of Packing Density. Artif Cells Blood Substit Immobil Biotechnol. [Epub ahead of print]
  5. Ananda K. and Seetharama A. Acharya, 2008. Role of extension arm in PEG-Hb conjugates on the stability of the tetramer: non-conservative EAF maleimide thio-PEG mediated PEGylation. Artif. Cells Blood Substit. Immobil. Biotechnol. 36(6):499-512.
  6. Pedro Cabrales, Amy G. Tsai, Ananda K., Seetharama A. Acharya and Marcos Intaglietta, 2008. Volume resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock with albumin and hexaPEGylated human serum albumin. Resuscitation 79 (1):139-46.
  7. Judith Martini, Pedro Cabrales, Ananda, K., Seetharama A Acharya, Marcos Intaglietta and Amy G. Tsai, 2008. Survival time in severe hemorrhagic shock after perioperative hemodilution is longer with PEG-conjugated human serum albumin than with HES 130/0.4: a microvascular perspective. Crit Care. 12(2):R54:1-9.
  8. Ananda, K. Nacharaju, P., Smith, P.K., Acharya, S.A., and Manjula, B.N., 2008. Analysis of functionalization of methoxy-PEG as maleimide-PEG. Analytical Biochemistry 374: 231-242.
  9. Ananda, K., Sridhar, K.R., Raviraja, N. S. and Ba¨rlocher, F., 2008. Breakdown of fresh and dried Rhizophora mucronata leaves in a mangrove of Southwest India. Wetlands Ecol. Manage. 16:1–9
  10. Sridhar, K.R. and Ananda, K. 2006. Diversity, biogeography and ecological functions of filamentous fungi in mangrove ecosystem. In: Recent Mycological Researches (Ed. Sati, S.A.). I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India, 158-193.
  11. Ananda, K. and Sridhar, K.R. 2004. Diversity of filamentous fungi on decomposing leaf and woody litter of mangrove forests in the southwest coast of India. Current Science, 87(10): 1431-1437.
  12. Ananda, K. and Sridhar, K.R. 2003. Filamentous fungal assemblage of two Island mangroves of India. In: Prospects and problems of Environment across the Millennium (Ed: Madyastha, M.N., Sridhar, K.R. and Ahanalaxmi.) Daya Publishing house. Delhi, PP 35-44.
  13. Ananda, K. and Sridhar, K.R. 2002. Diversity of endophytic fungi in the roots of mangrove species on the west coast of India. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 48: 871-878.