List of Publications:

Papers Published in National and International Journals:

1. NS Poonia, GC Kumar,A Jayakumar, Pushpa Bagdi and AV Bajaj, Co-ordination chemistry of alkali and alkaline earth cations-II lower glycols as lipophilizing and discriminating ligands, J.Inorg.Nucl.Chem., 43, 2159 (1981).
   
2. NS Poonia, Pushpa Bagdi and Sidhu, Structural aspects of crown complexes with alkali and alkaline earth cations- benzo-15-crown-5 as a discriminating macrocycles, J.Inclu.Pheno.,4, 43-54 (1985).
   
3. JA Kanters EH Von der Streen, Pushpa Bagdi and NS Poonia, Synthesis and structural analysis of amino picrate-dibenzo-18-crown-6, , J Inclu. Pheno, 4(3) 225-33 (1986).
   
4. NS Poonia, Pushpa Bagdi, K. S. Sidhu and W.S. Sheldrik, Co-ordination chemistry of proton- in situ synthesis and X-Ray structural analysis of etanolaminium pictrate, HOCH CH NH CHNO2NS Acta crystallographica.
   
5. Pushpa Agrawal and K.P.Gopinathan, Analysis of nuclear protein from silk glands of Bombyx mori, J.biosciences, 13, 4,1988,379-391.
   
6. B.S.Mohan, Pushpa Agrawal, Is Phytoremidiation is the solution for arsenic pollution of ground water in India and Bangladesh, current Science , 90, 4, 2006.
   
7. Dharmendra Kumar, Pushpa Agrawal, Prashantha V Saradesai, Aravinda B J, Shreyash N Deshpande, “Mutational Analysis Of H5n1 & H1n1 For Ascertaining Test Systems”, Current Science, Vol 92, no. 7, 19 April 2007 .
   
8. P. Agrawal, R. Hema, S. Mahesh Kumar Experimental Investigation on Biological Hydrogen Production Using Different Biomass, International Journal Technologi, Malaysia.
   
9. S. Mahesh Kumar, P. Agrawal & S Roy, Tangential flow microfiltration of gasification power plant effluent by inorganic membrane, International Journal Technologi, Malaysia.
   
10. S. Mahesh, G.Vijay Kumar and Pushpa Agrawal, Studies on the utility of plant cellulose waste for the bioadsorption of crystal violet dye pollutant, Journal of Environmental Biology, Volume 31 (2010).
11. K.H.Chandramouli, Pushpa Agrawal, Ravi Shankara, Improved protein identification in complex eukaryotic samples by liquid IEF fractionation with iTRAQ labeling, Pariprashna, Voll-III, Issue-4, Feb 2008.
12. K.S. Thippareddy and Pushpa Agrawal, Ethanol production from lignocellulose biomass through anaerobic fermentation, Journal of Environmental Research and Development, Vol. 3 (2) (October-December) 2008. pp 395-399.
13. K.S. Thippareddy and Pushpa Agrawal, Two Steps Fermentation Process For The Production Of Ethanol From Agricultural Waste. Accepted for publication, Manuscript No. NS/1250/09, Journal of Environmental Research and Development.
14. K. H. Chandramouli, Pushpa Agrawal and K. N. Thimmaiah. Protein Identification in Sub Proteome fractions of breast cancer cells by OFFGEL_IEF and iTRAQ Labeling. Current proteomics, Vol. 6 (1), (April)
    

International and National Conference:

1. Pushpa Bagdi, R. Joshi, A. Bajaj and N.S. Poonia, Co-ordination chemistry of alkali and alkaline earth cations, dissolution and dissociation studies of nitrophenolate salts in methanol and acetone, Proceedings of Annual Conference of Indian Council of Chemists, Karnataka university, Bharwad, October 1983.
   
2. Pushpa Bagdi, A.V.bajaj and N.S.Poonia, Transport of alkali and alkaline earth cations across liquid membrane, Prceedings of international membrane technology conference,the university of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, November 1983.
3. Pushpa Bagdi and N.S.Poonia, Ligand Vs anion preference of S-block cations in polar vis-à-vis those in non-polar media, Proceedings of Indian chemical society, diamond jubilee and 21th annual convention of chemists,Jadhavpur university, Calcutta, October 1984.
4. Pushpa Agrawal, S Mahesh Kumar, Production of Hydrogen by Microbial solid State Fermentation, National Conference on Development Cum Environment Friendly Future Industrial Fuels, Centre for Energy Studies Kumara guru College of Technology, Coimbatore, May 2005.
5. M.S.Nagananda, R Suresh, Pushpa Agrawal, T S Rukmini, B N Gangadhar Extraction of Visual Evoked Potentials. Proceedings of one day National Conference on Bioinstrumentation, May 2005.
6. S. Mahesh Kumar, Sukumar Roy, Pushpa Agrawal, “Fouling Mechanism of Microporous Alumina Membrane during Microfiltration of Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, Proceedings of CHEMCON, Dec-2005.
7. Pushpa Agrawal, S. Mahesh Kumar, R Hema, “Microbial Hydrogen Production: A Reliable Sustainable Energy for the Future”, Proceedings of CHEMCON, Dec-2005.
8. S. Mahesh Kumar, Pushpa Agrawal, Production of Hydrogen by Solid State Fermentation by Microbial Routes, Proceedings of DEFIF-2005.
9. Pushpa Agrawal, R.Hema, T.N.Ramamurthy, V.Murali, “Biological Hydrogen Production through Biomass and its Application in Internal Combustion Engines” Proceedings of NCBIC-2006, National conference – NIT Surathkal India, March 2006.
10. V Murali, T.N.Ramamurthy, Pushpa Agrawal, R.Hema, “A Comparative Evaluation of the Performance & Emission Characteristics of Compression Ignition Engine Using Pongamia Oil-Diesel Blend & Methyl Ester of Pongamia Oil As Alternative Fuel”, Proceedings of NCBIC-2006, National conference – NIT Surathkal India, March 2006.
11. S. Mahesh Kumar, K. Ramakrishnan, Pushpa Agrawal, G.M Madhu, “Filtration Characteristics in Dead-end Microfiltration of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by ceramic membrane”, Proceedings of International Conference on “Resource Utilisation and Intelligent Systems”. Proceedings of International Conference on Resource Utilization and Intelligent Systems (INCRIUS 2006), ISBN: 81 –7764 – 940 – X, January 2006.
12. Mohan BS, Pushpa Agrawal, “Phytoremediation of gold – A New avenue gold prospectus in India by adopting biotechnology & geo botanical principles, Proceeding of Parichay NMAMIT, 15-16 Sep 2006.
13. S. Mahesh Kumar, Pushpa Agrawal, Sukumar Roy “Direct Microfiltration of Gasification Power Plant Effluent by Inorganic Membrane”, Proceedings on National Conference on Environment Conservation (NCEC-2006), BITS Pilani, September 1-3rd 2006, Rajasthan.
14. S. Mahesh Kumar, Karthik, Sukumar Roy, Pushpa Agrawal, “Tangential Flow Microfiltration of Gasification Power Plant Effluent using Ceramic Membranes” Proceedings of 1st International Conference of Natural Resources Engineering and Technology, July 24-26th­­­, 2006, (Johor Darul Tazim) Malaysia.
15. Pushpa Agrawal, R Hema, S. Mahesh Kumar, Experimental Investigations on Biological Hydrogen Production Using Different Biomass”, Proceedings of 1st International Conference of Natural Resources Engineering and Technology, July 24-26th­­­, 2006, (Johor Darul Tazim) Malaysia.
16. Pushpa Agrawal, R.Hema, V.M.Sahai, “Microbial production of hydrogen through Dark and Photofermentation using Biomass” – ISCA, Jan., 2006.
17. R Hema, Pratima yadavendra, Pushpa Agrawal, “Utilization of Biomass waste to produce Biohydrogen using Anaerobic fermentation” - ISCA, Jan., 2006.
18. Pushpa Agrawal, Pratima yadavendra, R Hema, V.M.Sahai, “Priduction fo Biodiesel by Transesterification – A Review” – ISCA, Jan., 2006.
19. Dharmendra Kumar, Sushil Middha, Shweta Gupta, Biplab Bhattacharjee, Kavitha Iyer and Pushpa Agrawal, paper entitled “Sequence Analysis of H5N1 & H1N1 for Ascertaining Test System” Proceedings of International symposium on computational Biology and Bioinformatics (ISBB 06), Bhubaneshwar, India to be held December 15-17 2006 .
20. Dharmendra Kumar, Shweta Gupta, Sushil Middha and Pushpa Agrawal, paper entitled “Sequence analysis and Evolutionary studies of Aquaporins” Proceedings of International symposium on computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Bhubaneshwar (ISBB 06), India to be held December 15-17 2006.
21. Dharmendra Kumar, Shweta Gupta, Pushpa Agrawal, “Representation of Glucocorticoid Receptor signaling pathway: A Novel approach for Drug Discovery”. ,presentation in National Conference on Drug Designing & Synthesis, at Nagpur, scheduled on 19th & 20th Jan 2007.
22. Ajeet Kumar Srivastava, S. Mahesh, Pushpa Agrawal, Optical fibrosensors for the quantitative determination of chemical species. International Conference and Exhibition on Total Engineering Analysis & Manufacturing Technologies and Symposium on Integrated Nanobiosystems. TEAM TECH 2007.at BMS College of Engineering, 5-6 October 2007.
23. Puspha Agrawal, Partha Pratim Deb, “Tissue Engineering: Basic Principle And Applications”, International Conference and Exhibition on Total Engineering Analysis & Manufacturing Technologies and Symposium on Integrated Nanobiosystems, TEAM TECH 2007, at J N Tata Auditorium. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore & BMS College of Engineering, 4- 6 October 2007.
24. Puspha Agrawal, Archana Applications of Nanobiotechnology International Conference and Exhibition on Total Engineering Analysis & Manufacturing technologies and Symposium on Integrated Nanobiosystems. TEAM TECH 2007, at J N Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore & BMS College of Engineering, 4-6 October 2007.
25. Puspha Agrawal, Partha Pratim Deb, Bioresource utilization for removal of arsenic from drinking water, International Symposium on Applied Phycology and Environmental Biotechnology (ISAPEB – 2007) during October 29 – 31, 2007 at Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, Rajasthan.(accepted for paper presentation).
26. Pushpa Agrawal, Sunitha.S, Harsha. B.K Algal bioactive compounds -a Review, International Symposium on Applied Phycology and Environmental Biotechnology (ISAPEB – 2007) during October 29 – 31, 2007 at Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, Rajasthan.
27. Pushpa Agrawal & R. Hema, Biological Hydrogen Production Using Various Biomass; A Reliable Sustainable Energy for the Future International Conference on New Horizons in Biotechnology (NHBT-2007), NIST, Trivandrum, India, November 26-29, 2007.
28. Shivandappa, Pushpa Agrawal, Manjunath, Ajeet Kumar Srivastava, The application of Perl, Tk Perl and BioPerl in Sequence analysis, National conference on Computational Biology at R V College of Engineering on Nov. 16, 2007.
29. S. Mahesh Kumar, Pushpa Agrawal, Sukumar Roy “Opportunity, usefulness and efficiency of alumina ceramic membranes in treatment of sewage water” Accepted for presentation. International Conference on Biotechnology for sustainable development (BSD – 2008) during 07.01.2008 – 09.01.2008 at National Chemical Laboratory Pune (India).
30. Divya G, Aditi S, Pushpa Agrawal, Maruthy K N, Gokulnath, Segmental Bioimpedance Analysis of the online monitoring of weight loss in patients undergoing haemodialysis using an indigenously deviced instrument., Scientific Programme – ISNCON 2007, New Delhi, 13 – 15 Dec, 2007.
31. Neeta Shivakumar and Pushpa Agrawal “Evolutionary genomics for male specific region in different cultivars of Carica papaya” International conference on Structural biology- Macromolecules, Jan 2008.
32. Thippa Reddy and Pushpa Agrawal “Bioconversion of corn cob to alternative fuel”, Biotrendz a National level technical symposium held at Koneru lakshmaiah college of Engineering Guntur, 21st February 2008.
33. Thippa Reddy and Pushpa Agrawal “Production of ethanol by lignocellulose”, National Symposium on CSMB 08 at K S Rangaswamy college of technology Tamil Nadu, 27th and 28th February 2008.
34. Pushpa Agrawal, Partha Pratim Deb and Pushkala Jayaraman “ Reproduction and possible modulation of odour ” National conference Avinashlingam university for women, 12 march 2008, Tamil Nadu.
35. Manjunatha Reddy and Pushpa Agrawal “Colonization of paraiahkite along with the down flow of vrishabhavathi river”, 24th National conference of ISCAP held at department of PG studies and research in applied Zoology and microbiology, Kuvempu University, Shimoga 13 –15 March 2008.
36. Pushpa Agrawal, Shachi Katira and Sai Janani “Implementation of Pharmacogenomics in the Amelioration of Parkinson Disease” 8th mile, RVCE college fest on 29.03.2008.
37. Pushpa Agrawal, Partha Praim Deb and Pushkala Jayaraman “Prediction of possible mutation patterns in HIV when exposed to Drug Dosage along a time period” National conference on merging trends in biomedical signal processing at ETBMSP, Department of Instrumentation Technology, RVCE on 26.04.2008.
38. Pushpa Agrawal “Tissue Engineering: Basic principles and applications” National conference on merging trends in biomedical signal processing at ETBMSP, Department of Instrumentation Technology, RVCE on 26.04.2008.
39. Pushpa Agrawal, Partha Praim Deb and Pushkala Jayaraman “Prediction of mutation patterns in HIV exposure to time and drug dosage” Accepted for International conference on molecular modeling and systems biology, PESIT Bangalore on 2nd and 3rd May 2008.
40. Thippa Reddy and Pushpa Agrawal “Optimization of various parameters for the production of bio – ethanol from sunflower head by Zymomonas mobilis and saccharomyces cervisiae”,PARICHAY – 08 a National level technical symposium held at NMAM Institute Institutre of Technology, Nitte on 5th & 6th September 2008.
41. K.H.Chandramouli, Pushpa Agrawal, Beerali Seshi, Kumaraguru Raja, “Proteomics Strategy based on Offgel-IEF and ITRAQ labeling: An integrated approach o mapping the proteome of the Human Embryonic Stem Cells”, National Conference on Genomics, Proteomics & Systems Biology, J N Tata Auditorium, IISc, Bangalore, 1-3 Oct 2008.
42. Thippa Reddy and Pushpa Agrawal “Ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass through anaerobic fermentation”, International conference and publication by ICER – 08, Goa, 2008.
43. Pushpa Agrawal “Nanobiotechnology and Diseases” at National Women Science Congress –2008 (NWSC 2008) at Karnataka State Women University, Bijapur, 5-6 Dec, 2008.
44. Pushpa Agrawal & R Hema “ Microbial Hydrogen production from waste Biomass: A sustainable Energy for the future“ at 96th Indian Science congress at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, January 3 – 7 2008.
45. Pushpa Agrawal, Mahesh Kumar & Partha Praim Deb “Sorption Characteristic of Arsenic on Biomass” at International society Biotechnology conference ISBT 2008, Dec 28-30, 2008.
46. Pushpa Agrawal, Partha Praim Deb & Keerthana “Using Nanomaterials to Couple in-situ Detection and Remediation Techniques” at International society Biotechnology conference ISBT 2008, Dec 28-30, 2008.
47. Monisha Hajra, G Sai Janani, Shachi Katira and Pushpa Agrawal, “Peptide design for inhibition of alpha-synuclein self-aggregation in Parkinson’s disease”, accepted for presentation & publication at International Conference BIOCOMP’09, Las Vagus, USA, July, 2009.
48. Thippa Reddy and Pushpa Agrawal “Two steps fermentation process for the production of Ethanol from Agricultural waste” International conference on emerging trends in Environmental research St Albert’s College Ernakulam, Kerala, South India, August 14th to 16th 2009.
49. Thippa Reddy and Pushpa Agrawal . “Pretreatment of lignocellulosic material for the production of ethanol. An International conference on Challenges in biochemical Engineering and food technology” held at Department of Technology, Annamalai university, Annamali nagar-608002, Tamilnadu, 8th to 10th October 2009.
50. Vijaya kumar, Pushpa Agrawal, Lingayya Hiremath, Pooja P Rao, Kavitha Appaya and Saranya Ravi. “Adsorption of industrial dye using neem power” in National conference on go green, held at Dept. of Biotechnology, R V College of engineering on 14th November, 2009.
51. Lingayya Hiremath, Pushpa Agrawal, Vijaya Kumar, Pooja P Rao, Kavitha Appaya and Saranya Ravi and P Ambresh. “Bioadsorption of heavy metals from aqueous solution by fungal stains isolated from e-waste metal polluted soil” in National conference on go green, held at Dept. of Biotechnology, R V College of engineering on 14th November, 2009.
52. G. Vijaya Kumar, Pushpa Agrawal and Sukumar Roy. Purification of water Moringa Oleifera coagulant protein (MOCP) from drum stick seeds. in National conference on go green, held at Dept. of Biotechnology, R V College of engineering on 14th November, 2009.
53. Lingayya Hiremath, Pushpa Agrawal and A. H. Manjunatha Reddy. “Antifungal properties of Lantana proteins” in National conference on Biotechnological approaches in Medicinal and aromatic plants held at New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore on 12th and 13th March 2009.
54. G. Vijaya Kumar, Pushpa Agrawal and Sukumar Roy. Purification of coagulant protein (mocp) from moringa oleifera by using nano ceramic material. in International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology(ICONN-2010) SRM University, Chennai.
    

Books Published:

1. Biotechnology-IV, New Age Interantional Publishers, Dr.S.Mahesh & Dr.Pushpa Agrawal , 2006
   

Research Guidance: Recognised as Ph.D. guide from Visveswaraya Tech.University, Mangalore University, Kuvempu University, Dr MGR deemed University

Guided/Guiding: 8 Ph.D, 40 PG projects 19 UG projects

Projects Coordinated and Consultancy Work:

Professional Membership

Membership of Academic Boards

1. Ex Member, board of Examiners – M.Sc Biotechnology & Microbiology, Bangalore Uni.
   
2. Ex Member, board of Examiners – B E Biotechnology, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum.
   
3. Ex Member, Board of Studies – B E Biotechnology, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum.
   
4. Chairperson Board of Studies - B.E. Biotechnology, RVCE Autonomous
   
5. Chairperson Board of Examination – B.E. Biotechnology, RVCE Autonomous

Awards and Distinctions:

1. PRATIBHA award from the Agrasen Youth Club, Indore in 1985
   
2. BEST TEACHER award from NFGC in 1998
   
3. Founder of Cultural exchange group “SHANTI”, 2000
   
4. As a group leader organized cultural programme in Japan (2000-02) & Malaysia (2000) Displayed Folk & Indian Classical dance.
   
5. Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, 1980-84.
   
6. Visiting Research Faculty, Miami University, Miami, USA.
   
7. Post Doctoral Fellowship, CSIR, 1984-85.
   
8. Scientist pool officer, CSIR, 1986-1988. IISc, Bangalore
   
9. Research Associate, IISc, 1989-1990.
   
10. Chair person, ISTE, RVCE chapter, 2005 onwards.
    
11. Chair person, Sexual harassment committee, RVCE.
    
12. Director, Centre for Nano-Sciences, 2006 onwards.
    
13. Director, Centre for Gandhian Principles and value based education, 2004-2009.
    
14. Academic Excellence Award RSST, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009
    
15. Fellow member International society Biotechnology