Kalyani Prithiviraj
Senior Instructor

Email: kprithiviraj@dal.ca
Phone: 902.893.6607
Mailing Address:
Teaching
Course No. |
Course name |
BIOA1002 |
Biology I (Fall) |
BIOA1003 |
Biology II (Winter) |
MCRA2000 |
Microbiology (Winter) |
MCRA4001 |
Food Microbiology (Fall) |
AGRI5660 |
Food Microbiology for graduate students (Fall) |
BIOA2002 |
Plant Physiology (WInter) |
Service
Biosafety lab coordinator
Autoclave training and certification coordinator.
Member of Budget committee.
Member of Food working group.
In charge of Department website maintenance.
Servicing and maintaining Biology microscopes
Mentorship
High school science fair projects mentor
Clean foundation mentorship
Teaching assistant mentorship
Book chapters & Lab manuals
1. K. Reddy. 1996. Chapter 3: Care of patient in the ward. Physician assistant manual. Pg 215-233.
K. Reddy. 1996. Chapter 9: Drug used in cardiac care. Physician assistant manual. Pg 422- 500.
2. K. Prithiviraj. 2019. Microbiology laboratory manual.
3. K. Prithiviraj. 2019. Plant pathology laboratory manual.
4. K. Prithiviraj. 2019. Food microbiology laboratory manual.
5. K. Prithiviraj 2019. Biochemistry and molecular biology laboratory manual.
Publications
1. Ayyanath M, Cutler C, Scott-Dupree S, Prithiviraj B, Kandasamy S, Prithiviraj K (2014). Gene expression during imidacloprid-induced hormesis in green peach aphid. Dose Response 12:480–497.
2. Kim HJ, Prithiviraj K, Groathouse N, Brennan PJ, Spencer JS. (2013). Gene expression profile and immunological evaluation of unique hypothetical unknown proteins of Mycobacterium leprae by using quantitative real-time PCR. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 20:181-90.
3. Sangha JS, Ravichandran S, Prithiviraj K, Critchley AT, Prithiviraj B. 2010. Sulfated macroalgal polysaccharides λ-carrageenan and ι-carrageenan differentially alter Arabidopsis thaliana resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 75:38-45.
4. Palijan A, Dutil J, Moujahidine M, Prithiviraj K, Deng AY Functional genomics of hypertension combining congenic strains with gene profiling Hypertension 42: 445 (Abstract).
5. Ariyarajah A, Palijan A, Dutil J, Prithiviraj K, Deng Y, Deng AY. (2004) Dissecting quantitative trait loci into opposite blood pressure effects on Dahl rat chromosome 8 by congenic strains. Journal of Hypertension 22(8):1495-502.
6. Dutil J, Eliopoulos V, Marchand EL, Devlin AM, Tremblay J, Prithiviraj K, Hamet P, Migneault A, deBlois D, Deng AY (2005). A quantitative trait locus for aortic smooth muscle cell number acting independently of blood pressure: implicating the angiotensin receptor AT1B gene as a candidate. Physiological Genomics 21:362-369.