Teaching experience after postgraduation :-  24 years

Main research interests:-

             Clinical Bacteriology

                       Pathogenicity and molecular characteristics of ocular isolates

                       Of coagulase negative Staphylococci

             Mycology

                      Antifungal sensitivity of filamentous fungi

                      Fungal pathogenicity in infectious keratitis

                      Molecular characterisation of mycelial fungi

                      in fungal keratitis

Research grants:-

                    1. Phenotypic and molecular characterisation of ocular isolates  

                        of coagulase negative Staphylococci :implications in

                        colonisation and virulence-ICMR project,completed in

                        April 2005

                     2. Standardisation of antifungal susceptibility testing for

                        filamentous fungi and characterisation of drug sensitive and

                         drug resistant fungal isolates in mycotic keratitis-ICMR

                         project