Sudharsan Varatharajan

Sudharsan Varatharajan

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Experience

  • Bversity Graphic

    Bversity

    Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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    Chennai

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    Chennai

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    Karlsruhe, Germany

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    India

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    Coimbatore Area, India

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    Veeravanallur, Thirunelvelli

Education

  • SRM IST Chennai Graphic

    SRM University

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    Activities and Societies: Dance team, Creatives team

    •Worked as Resource person in the workshop – ‘DeCode’ – an initiative for the school students in teaching them basic genomic techniques like Genomic DNA isolation, PCR and lab equipment handlings.
    •Technically assisted in the sessions of Prof.M.S.Swaminathan and Nobel Laureate Harald Zur Hausen at IGC 2015.
    •Part of SRM University Creatives Team.
    •Part of Dance Team representing my house – TRISHUL

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    Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Athletics Team, Cricket Team, Dance Team

    •Recipient of ‘MUDHALVAN AWARD’ from JCI Honey Bee Club, Theni in the year 2014.
    •HSC Topper in my school with a score of 1167/1200.
    •Part of Student-Exchange program JENESYS to JAPAN in the year 2012.
    •International Cricket Player at ISCPL Tournament, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh during the year 2013.
    •State champion in Triple jump and State-runner in High jump ASISC Regional Sports meet in the year 2012.
    •National participant in ASISC Sports meet held at Rourkela, Orissa in the year…

    •Recipient of ‘MUDHALVAN AWARD’ from JCI Honey Bee Club, Theni in the year 2014.
    •HSC Topper in my school with a score of 1167/1200.
    •Part of Student-Exchange program JENESYS to JAPAN in the year 2012.
    •International Cricket Player at ISCPL Tournament, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh during the year 2013.
    •State champion in Triple jump and State-runner in High jump ASISC Regional Sports meet in the year 2012.
    •National participant in ASISC Sports meet held at Rourkela, Orissa in the year 2012.

Volunteer Experience

Publications

  • Chemical screen to understand the olfactory placode morphogenesis

    EMBO Conference - Cell shape and size

    Selected for poster presentation at EMBO conference - Cell shape and size to be held on September 4-8 at NCBS, Bangalore.

Projects

  • #Gene and You

    An awareness study programme on Muscular Dystrophy at Mayopathy Research Institute and Hospital, Veeravanallur, Thirunelvelli.

  • Effect of NMDA receptor antagonist Ketamine on the levels of various neurotransmitter systems in zebrafish model

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    Injected ketamine intraperitonial to adult zebrafish, and evaluated the levels of acetylcholine and dopamine using biochemical assays. Studied the behavioral, anxiety and memory using Tolman’s maze.

  • Protective effects of Mucuna pruriens on MPTP induced dopaminergic loss in zebrafish

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    The work concentrated on automated tracking of locomotor assessment and behavioral studies, biochemical assays for oxidative stress analysis using brain homogenates, HPLC for detecting dopamine levels and qPCR to study oxidative stress responsible genes especially the NRF2 mediated regulation.

  • Teratogenic effect of anti-epileptic Clobazam on zebrafish

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    Studied the effects of anti-epileptic drugs and screening for teratogenic effects using Zebra fish as a model organism. Exposing various concentrations of AEDs and looking for developmental defects such as tail growth, spine, and heartbeat using microscopy technique.

Honors & Awards

  • Undergrad Research scholarship

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

    Received a monthly stipend to undergo my final year dissertation at KIT Campus Nord under the European Zebrafish resource centre.

  • Best Student project Award - Biological working model

    Genetic Engineering Association

    Developed DIY laboratory that can be compressed to a size of suitcase which can be used to isolate DNA even in the garage.

  • Mudhalvan Award

    JCI HoneyBee club Theni

    HSC Topper in the year 2014

  • Roll of Honour

    The Little Kingdom Senior school

  • JENESYS Student Exchange program to Japan

    Government of India

    Recipient of the JENESYS scholarship - A student exchange program to Japan funded by the Government of India

Test Scores

  • IELTS

    Score: 8

  • ESOL Preliminary English Test (PET)

    Score: Merit

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tamil

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