Karthika M
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Biography
Karthika Mayan is currently employed as a Research Assistant, in the study titled “An Exploratory Study on Environmental, Medicinal, Genetic and Dietary Determinants of Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Aetiology Based on Postmortem Tissue Analysis” at Faculty of Forensic medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Having completed Master degree in Bioinformatics with a merit pass and Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular biology at University of Colombo. During the MSc degree she investigated that 11 natural compounds can be used as cancer stem cells targeted potential anti-cancer compounds. In between she got the opportunity to work on a research project titled “In silico characterization of a RNA binding protein of cattle filarial parasite Setaria digitata” and published. Last year she has worked as a Research assistant at Bioinformatics and Computational Biology research group in UCSC, University of Colombo, and research topic on Co-evolution of Dengue virus and human. Since her long term goal was to be actively involved research. In the future she hopes that her research experience gained so far will be helpful that she can carry out valuable outcomes from her novel findings.