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Kalyani Prithiviraj

Senior Instructor

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Email: kprithiviraj@dal.ca
Phone: 902.893.6607
Mailing Address: 
Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences 127, Cox Institute, PO Box 550 Truro, NS, B2N 5E3
 

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. 

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