Curriculum Vitae

                                           (Vishal Singh Parihar)

 

Contact Details:

C/o Tham, Åsgatan 1c, 

Grythyttan 712 60

Sweden

 

Affiliation

School of Health and Medical Sciences,

Section of Biomedicine       

Örebro University, Sweden

Email: drvishu1241@yahoo.co.in

webmail: http://vsparihar.googlepages.com/vishalsinghparihar

 

 

Designation: Summer Research Project

June, 2008 to September, 2008

Institute: School of Life Sciences

Project Supervisor:

Dr. Jana Jass ,

Project Title: Adhesion biology and Proteomics of Lactobacillus rahmnosus GR-1

2005 - Present

Designation: Doctoral student (Ph.D).

Institution: SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES, SWEDEN.

Project Supervisors:

1. Prof. Dr. Marie-Louise Danielsson-Tham, Örebro University, Sweden.

2. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Tham, Örebro University, Sweden.

3. Dr. S. B. Barbuddhe, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig University, Germany.

                                     Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Goa

Project Title: Human listeriosis in Sweden and India.

 

2002-2005

Designation: Masters of Science (MSc).

Institution: SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, UPPSALA.

Project Supervisors:

1. Prof. Dr. Marie-Louise Danielsson-Tham. SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.

2. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Tham, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.

Project Title: Molecular characterization of L. monocytogenes.

Funding agency: STINT (http://www.stint.se)

 

1997 - 2002

Designation: Bachelors of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry (B.V.Sc&A.H)

Institution: Maharashatra Animal and fishery Sciences University ( http://www.mafsu.in/nagpur/nagpur_main.html).

Project Title: Milk borne pathogenes.

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. N. N. Zade

Secured marks: 79.3%

 

1995-1996

Intermediate(10+2) with Botany, zoology, Physics and chemistry, Board of Sec. School and Educvarion (BOSE) Jammu. Secured 66.7% score.

 

1994

Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination from BOSE-Jammu. Secured 55% scores.

 

Experience and Skills

 

Molecular biology:      Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, PCR,

                                    Tissue culture, SDS-PAGE.

Bioinformatics:           Basic knowledge on sequence analysis,

                                   molecular biology and genomics.

Statistics:                   Basic Bio-statistics,

                                   R-software.

Programming:            C+, HTML.

Biology:                     Good theoretical knowledge in Biomedicine and Biochemistry

 

Fellowship & Awards:

• STINT-International fellowship for 2003-2005.
• Fellowship for Ph.D studies.
• Merit scholarship in B.V.Sc degree from Govt. of Maharashtra, India.

Presentation:

• Zoonotic aspects of Listeria monocytogenes. International Symposium on Problems of Listeriosis (ISOPOL) in Uppsala, Sweden. 12 - 15 september, 2004.
• Sheep, Human and Listeriosis. International Symposium on Problems of Listeriosis (ISOPOL) in Uppsala, Sweden. 12 - 15 september, 2004.
• Detection of Virulence genes in food isolates of Listeria monocytogenes. International Conference on Emerging Pathogene at Palmpur, India. 7 -8 march, 2006.

• Characterization of Listeria monocytogenes Isolated from Bovine Mastitis Cases. International Symposium on Problems of Listeriosis (ISOPOL) in Atlanta, USA, 2007.

Some of the courses completed during PhD programme:

• Protein biology (2.5 points)
• Immunobiology, gene expression and DNA (2.5 points)
• Gene expression biology (2 points)
• Quality assurance in research laboratory (2 points)
• Flow cytometry (2 points)
• Scientific English (3 points)
• Introduction to Bio-statistics (5 points)

Research articles:

• Parihar V.S. Human Listeriosis - Sources and routes. Doctoral thesis, School of Health and Medical Sciences,                Örebro University, Sweden.
• Parihar V.S, S.B. Barbuddhe, M.L. Danielsson-Tham and W. Tham. Isolation and characterization of Listeria species from tropical seafoods Food Control Volume 19 , Pages 566-569 (June 2008).
• Parihar V.S, Wilhelm Tham, Marie-Louise Danielsson-Tham. Zoonotic aspects of Listeria monocytogenes Epsilon Dissertations and Graduate Theses (SLU) 45 , 60 (2004).  
• Parihar V.S, Lopez-Valladares G, Danielsson-Tham M-L, Peiris I,, Helmersson S,, Unemo M, Andersson B, Arneborn M, Bannerman E, Barbuddhe S,  Bille J, Hajdu L, Jacquet C, Johansson Ch,  Löfdahl M, Möllerberg G,, Ringberg H, Rocourt J,  Tjernberg I, Henriques-Normark, B, Tham W. Characterization of Human Invasive Isolates of Listeria monocytogenes  in Sweden 1986-2007. (In  Press) Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 
• Parihar V.S, Barbuddhe SB, Chakurkar EB, Danielsson-Tham ML and Tham W.  Isolation of Listeria species from farm bulk milk at the receiving dairy plant and cervico-vaginal samples from dairy cows in Goa, India. Indian Journal of Comparative Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases 27(1), 2007.
•  Parihar V.S, Barbuddhe SB, Kalorey DR, Khandait VY, Danielsson-Tham M-L, Tham W. Isolation of Listeria monocytogens from human clinical cases. Submitted.  
• Parihar V.S, Lopez-Valladares G, Danielsson-Tham M-L, Helmersson S, S Barbuddhe, Båverud V., Tham W. Molecular characterization of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from animals in Sweden and comparison with previously characterized human strains. In manuscript . 
• Parihar V.S, Barbuddhe SB, Chakurkar EB, Danielsson-Tham ML and Tham W. Detection of multiple virulence associated genes in Listeria monocytogenes isolated from bovine mastitis cases. In manuscript 
• From seafood to salads. Nature. doi:10.1038/nindia.2008.227; Published 17 June 2008.

Research Interests:  To study virulence protein. Surface proteins.  Internalins and interaction biology.

Other interests:  Teaching, reading, car-racing.