Dr Suresh Kumar A. P.
Postdoc Fellow, School of Science and Technology
Qualifications
BSc (Madras University), MSc (NFMC-Bharathidasan University), PhD (UNE - Australia)
Contact
| Email: | sathiap2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Centre for Water Policy (C21) L2 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3326 (or +61 2 6773 3326 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3267 |
| Mobile: | 0402 208 387 |
| Homepage: | http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~sathiap2 |
Dr. Suresh Kumar Athiappan Palanisamy joined as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Science and Technology, University of New England in Nov. 2011 in the CRN project. Suresh is currently working on analysing HTTLPR polymorphisms in Australian rural population to study mental health and depression with Dr. Jim McFarlane and Dr. Chris Sharply.
Areas of Teaching
Microbiolgy
Research interests
Molecular mechanisms in depression
Molecular Endocrinolgy
Conference Proceedings and Publications
Ciller I. M., Palanisamy S. K. A., Ciller U. A & McFarlane J. R., Developmental Expression of Bmpr1a, Bmpr1b and Bmpr2 Genes in the Postnatal Mouse Testis, II World Congress of Reproductive Biology, Cairns, 2011.
Ku T. S. N., Palanisamy S. K. A., and Lee S. A., High-dose Tigecycline has antifungal activity against Candida albicans biofilms in vitro, IDSA 47th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA on October 29-November 1, 2009.
Palanisamy S. K. A., Fletcher C., Hyman J., Katz M. E. and Cheetham B. F., Presented at the Annual General Conference of Australian Society of Microbiology (ASM), Adelaide Convention Centre, Australia entitled: “The putative global regulator of virulence, polynucleotide phosphorylase, modulates twitching motility, a virulence determinant of the anaerobic bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus, (9th – 13th July 2007).
Palanisamy S. K. A., Fletcher C., Katz M. E. and Cheetham B. F., Presented at the Australian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), ComBio-2006, Brisbane convention centre, Australia, entitled: “The effect of polynucleotide phosphorylase knockouts on virulence characteristics of Dichelobacter nodosus” (24th – 28th September 2006).
Cheetham B. F., Palanisamy S. K. A., Fletcher C., Kenny D., Locke W., Hyman J. and Katz M. E., Presented a paper at the European Science Foundation – EMBO Symposium, Costa Brava, Spain entitled “Regulation of virulence gene networks by integration of mobile genetic elements”, (14th – 19th October 2006).
Bashir M., Palanisamy S. K. A. and Ramakrishna G., "A synonymous SNP in codon 1493 of adenomatous polyposis coli gene in Indian population.", Submission to NCBI: Single nucleotide polymorphism database, http://griponline.org/grip-investigators/gayatri/ 2004.
Palanisamy S. K. A., Fletcher C., Tanjung L., Katz M. E., and Cheetham B. F., Deletion of the C-terminus of polynucleotide phosphorylase increases twitching motility, a virulence characteristic of Dichelobacter nodosus, FEMS Microbiology Letters. 302 (1): 39-45, 2009.
Palanisamy S. K. A., Melissa A., Ramirez M. L. and Lee S. A., Candida albicans PEP12 is required for biofilm integrity and in vivo virulence, Eukaryotic Cell. 9 (2): 266-277, 2010.
Ku N., Palanisamy S. K. A. and Lee S. A., Susceptibility of Candida albicans biofilms to azithromycin, tigecycline, rifampicin, and vancomycin, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 36(5):441-6, 2010.
Ciller I. M., Palanisamy S. K. A., Ciller U. A. and Farlane J. R., Postnatal expression of bone morphogenetic proteins and their receptors in the mouse testis. (In Press) 2011.