Antimicrobial Peptides

He is also the Research Director of Kannur University since 2018. Dr. Sreejith has received MPhil in Biophysics and PhD in Biochemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. He has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience. His area of research is antimicrobial peptides and proteins, anti inflammatory compounds and cancer biology. Since 2008, his team has contributed extensively in the aforementioned area with publications appearing in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Peptides, Mycopathologia. He has presented papers in the II International conference on antimicrobial research, Lisbon, Portugal-2012 and European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 2016. He is a life member of Indian Peptide Society (IPS). Since 2003 he has been serving Kannur University in its Board of studies in Microbiology as a member and from 2010 onwards he is the Chairman. He is having collaboration with researchers, Dr Sudarslal, Professor, School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala, India, and Dr C Arunan, School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India He has completed his masters in Microbiology from Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India and received PhD in Microbiology from Kannur University, Kerala India. His area of research is peptide antibiotics, biofilms, drug resistance and Phage therapy. He has more than five years of teaching and research experience. His contribution in antimicrobial peptides and drug resistance appeared in various journals including-peptides, Journal of Applied microbiology, Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology, Mycopathologia. He has been Board of studies member in Microbiology (2014-18) and Chairman, Board of Examiners in Biotechnology and Microbiology (2012-15), Kannur University. He is a reviewer of Journal of Bacteriology and Mycology. He is a member of Indian Peptide Society (IPS), Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance (IIMAR) and International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM).

• 1. Historical developments of antimicrobial peptide research2. Biosynthesis of peptide antibiotics and innate immunity3. Antimicrobial peptides: features and mode of action4. Purification techniques and characterisation of antimicrobial peptides5. Peptide antibiotics from bacteria6. Antimicrobial peptides of fungal origin7. Insect peptides with antimicrobial effect8. Amphibian host defence peptides9. Plant derived antimicrobial peptides10. Mammalian antimicrobial peptides11. Antimicrobial peptides from marine environment12. Peptides with antiviral activities13. Peptide antibiotics against MDR bacteria14. Antimicrobial peptide resistance15. Recent advances and challenges in peptide drug development16. Future perspective of peptide antibiotic market

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