Marine Natural Products Laboratory

“Marine Natural Products from Endophytes, Seaweeds, and Halophyte as Immunotherapeutics”, presented at National Conference on trends in Natural Products for Immunotherapeutics. Ramanbhai College of Pharmacy, CHARUSAT and APTI at Changa, Gujarat during 3th to 4th March 2023.

“Natural Products for Control of Mosquito Vectors of VBDs”, presented at 15th Conference on Vectors and Vector Borne Diseases, organized by National Academy of Vector Borne Diseases, Goa University, and ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research at Goa during 15th to 17th February 2023.

“Isolation, Structure Elucidation, and Biosynthetic Studies on Macrolide Glycosides”, presented at International Conference on Biotechnology for Resource Efficiency, Energy, Environment, Chemicals and Health (BREEECH 2021), organized by CSIR-IIP and BRSI on 2nd December 2021.

“Bioactive Natural Products from Actinomycetes”, presented at Faculty Development Program & Student Training Program (STP) on New Avenues and Challenges in Actinobacterial Research, organized by Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu on 5th October 2021.

“Endophytes; Soldiers for protection and growth of plants”, presented at online training programme, “Crop Improvement through Technological Intervention of Biotechnology, Microbiology, and Nanotechnology”, organized by Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, Maharashtra on 25th September 2021.

“Obtaining Research Funding: Overview through Real Life Examples”, presented at G. H. Raisoni University, Saikheda, Madhya Pradesh on 13th August 2021.

“Natural Products Research: A Journey from Plants to Marine Organisms to Microorganisms”, presented at State Level Seminar ‘Quality Assurance of Herbal Medicinal Products: Past, Present, & Future’ organized by PDVVP College of Pharmacy, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. 6th to 7th February 2020.

“Advances in Microbial Drug Discovery”, presented at National Level Seminar ‘Bioprospecting for Sustainable Development’ organized by St. Xavier’s College Mapusa, Goa. 24th to 25th January 2020.

“Endophytes as Rich Source of Bioprospecting”, presented at National Level Seminar ‘Bioprospecting for Sustainable Development’ organized by St. Xavier’s College Mapusa, Goa. 24th to 25th January 2020.

“Bioactive Macrolides from the Actinomycete Dactylosporangium aurantiacum”, presented at ‘International Workshop on Biology and Applications of Actinomycetes’ organized by University of Mysore in association with Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research & Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka. 31st October to 1st November 2019.

“Seaweed Research: Application of Advanced Techniques and Multi-Disciplinary Approaches”, presented at International Seaweed Expo & Summit (ISES-2019), Mumbai 22-24 Jan 2019.

“Engineering biosynthesis of glycosylated derivatives of macrolide antibiotics”, presented at Bioprocessing India 2014 organized by Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai and Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI), December 17-20, 2014 at Mumbai, India.

“Natural products drug discovery through biosynthetic pathway engineering”, presented at Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, on August 13, 2013 at Delhi, India.

 “Drug discovery: Natural products chemistry meets microbial biotechnology”, presented at Department of Biological Environment, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kangwon National University, on December, 16, 2011 at Chuncheon, South Korea.

 “Studies on the Cytotoxic Metabolites from Marine Sponges”, presented at Piramal Life Sciences Ltd. on March, 9, 2008, at Mumbai, India.