Research Projects

Research Projects (list of Ongoing & completed research projects) in the last five years :

i. Ongoing projects with funding source and Title of the Project (International/national/state/ industry/university etc)

 

Nature of Project Principal Investigator Title Duration of Year Name of the Funding Agency Total Grants Sanctioned
(Rs. In lakhs)

Major Projects

 

Co-ordinator

K. Bhasker Shenoy

 

Deputy Co-ordinator

Sreepada K.S.

Western Ghats and Coastal Biodiversity

2015-2020

UGC-SAP

105.0

 

 K. Bhasker Shenoy

C-reactive protein-Development and validation of sensitive Radioimmunoassay for the inflammatory marker

2017-2020

BRNS

 

27.9

 

M.S. Mustak 

The Konkani people of Karnataka: A study of their origin, migration and settlement patterns

2018-2022

Konakani Adhyanapita, Mangalore University and World Konakni language and cultural Foundation

 

 

 

 

22.8

 

Minor Project

K. Bhasker Shenoy

M.S. Mustak 

Narasimhaih N

Faunal components of MRPL Pond

2019-20

Dr. Shivarama Karantha Pilikula Nisargadhama Mangalore

2.5

 

Shamprasad V.R.(DBT)

Govt. of India

Neurobiology of colour vision

2015-2022

DBT-Ramalinga-swami Re-entry Fellowship

134

 

ii. Completed research projects

Nature of Project

Principal Investigator

Title

Duration of Year

Name of the Funding Agency

Total Grants Sanctioned

(Rs. In lakhs)

Major Projects

 M.S. Mustak

Genomic diversity of population of Lakshadweep Islands

2013-2017

SERB-New Delhi

48.5

The effect of electron beam irradiation on expression of ER stress genes and its modulatory role in ligodendrocytes and axon-glial cells interactions: Possible implications for demyelinating disorders    

2013-2017

DAE-BRNS-Mumbai

 

17.5

Minor Project

 M.S. Mustak

Butterflies as indicators of Climate Change-  study  in different eco-climatic  areas of Karnataka

2014-16

EMPRI-Govt of Karnataka

10.0

 

Rajashekhar Patil,

Organisation of sites of memory formation, A study in Drosphila

 

1997-2000    

DST

 15.23

 

Rameshchandra Rao,

Production of Bio fertilizer from aquatic weeds through Vermiculture

1999-2001

DST Science & Society Division

 3.5

 

Rameshchandra Rao,

Eco-Friendly Vied Management trough Vermitechnology, 3.0 Lakhs

2003-05

DST Science & Society Division

3.0

 

K.K. Vijayalaxmi

In vivo and in Vitro studies on Radio Protective and Antitumor Effects of Plant extracts, Piper nigrum Linn and Piper betle Linn

 

2005-2008  

BRNS Mumbai

12.61

 

Bhasker Shenoy,

Radio idonation of ‘C’ Peptide of insulin,

2010-2015

BRNS -Mumbai

24.0

 

Rajashkar K. Patil,

Evaluation of radio protective potential of routine and quercetin

2010-2015

BRNS -Mumbai

22.0

 

Rajashekar K. Patil,

Radiation tolerance mechanisms in insects

2017-2020

BRNS -Mumbai

30.55

 

Bhasker Shenoy

C-reactive protein Development and validation of sensitive Radioimmunoassay for the inflammatory marker. 

2017-2020

BRNS -Mumbai

27.9

 

Vijaya Mala Nair

Effect of ionizing radiations on histochemical characteristics of major fiber types in skeletal muscles of mouse. 

2010-14

BRNS -Mumbai

22.0

 

Research Collaboration (both National & International):

International  

i.          Department of Radiation Oncology and Neurology,  The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Taxa,United states .

ii          Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago. United States

National

i.          Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

ii          Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India

iii         Birbal Sahini Institute of Paleoscience (BSIP), Lucknow, UP, India

iv.        Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute (EMPRI_Bangalore), Dept. of Forest, Ecology & Environment, Government of karnataka

v          Department of Cardiology, K.S.Hegde Medical Academy, Darelakatte, Mangalore