Vishnupriya, R., L. Thomas, L. Wahba, A. Fire$ and K. Subramaniam (2020). PLP-1 is essential for germ cell development and germline gene silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 147, dev195578 (Impact factor-6.9).

Naidu, P.Y., R. Vishnupriya and B. Ethiraj (2023). Influence of psychrophilic and mesophilic conditions on the effectiveness of microbial fuel cell using slaughterhouse wastewater. AIP Conf. Proc. 2822, 020115.

Vishnupriya, R., S. Akash and B. Ethiraj (2024). Comparison of electricity generation from river soil with mud soil using sediment microbial fuel cell. AIP Conf. Proc. 2853, 020144.

Ethiraj, B., B. Sowmya and R. Vishnupriya (2024). Influence of high and moderate pH on bioelectricity production of sediment microbial fuel cell. AIP Conf. Proc. 2853, 020026. 

Sowmya, B., R. Vishnupriya and B. Ethiraj (2024). Comparison of bioelectricity production from single unit and double units of sediment microbial fuel cell. AIP Conf. Proc. 2853, 020095.

Thiran Raj, R., B. Ethiraj and R. Vishnupriya (2025). Comparison of biogas yield from the novel anaerobic codigestion sugarcane and corn stalk with cow dung in biodigester. Hybrid and Advanced Technologies 25-30.

Kumar, E. A., R. Vishnupriya and B. Ethiraj (2025). Comparison of biogas yield from the novel anaerobic co-digested agriculture and wood industrial waste with food waste in biodigester. Hybrid and Advanced Technologies 36-41.

Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)-Biotechnology, 2013 with an All India Rank of 245.

Awarded Half-time Research Assistantship (HTRA) for pursuing Masters and Doctoral studies at IIT-Madras, Chennai.

Awarded Government of India Scholarship (KVPY) for pursuing my undergraduate course at Govt. College of Technology.

TOPPER of the II, V and VII semesters during my undergraduate course.

Awarded second prize in poster presentation held at Adiyamaan Engineering College, Hosur.

Awarded second prize for non-technical events during a technical symposium held at Hindusthan College of engineering and technology, Coimbatore.

Certifications

Certified Master Trainer under the Information Security, Education and Awareness (ISEA) project, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.

Certified Viva Voce Examiner for the Business Data Management course, conducted as a part of the B.Sc. in Programming and Data Science program, run by Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai

Certified reviewer for the NPTEL course-Industrial Biotechnology, handled by Prof. Debabrata Das, IIT Kharagpur

Organizer

Organised a National level workshop on Biogas plant operation and maintenance, at Saveetha School of Engineering, SIMATS University, which had over 150 participants

Organised a National conference on Recent trends in Transcriptomics, at Saveetha School of Engineering, SIMATS University, which had over 350 participants.

Conducted a One Day Faculty Development Program on Importance of genetics in biotechnology at the Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Saveetha School of Engineering, SIMATS University, involving one to one interaction with the faculty members of the department.

Attendee

Presented my study entitled “plp-1 is required for germ cell development and transgene silencing in the germ line” at the 22nd International C. elegans Conference held at University of California, Los Angeles, USA during June, 2019. 

Was selected and funded for the B4 Genomics workshop, jointly organized by the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute (SAI), Harvard University and IBAB and sponsored by the Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), India, held during 10-23rd December, 2017.

Attended the First Indian C. elegans meeting held at Lonavala, Maharastra, 2016, wherein the entire worm community of India participated and discussed on the ongoing research in nematode biology.

Attended Bridging Research and Education Workshops (BREW)-2021,2022,2024, an initiative to improve undergraduate teaching experience using model organisms and innovative teaching methods 

Attended the international conference named LERIG 2013, for the leather industries involving representatives from all over the world held at CSIR-CLRI, Chennai. 

Underwent an informative workshop on High Performance Liquid Chromatography(HPLC)-construction and working ,conducted by Anna university ,Chennai

Presented my thesis work at the BIO-GROUP, a consortium of biology laboratories at the Dept. of Biotechnology, IIT-Madras.

Attended a workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) describing the basics of patenting, geographical indication.

Participated in a two-day training program titled “Cyber Suraksha: Empowering trainers for a digitally secure India”, organised by Regional coordination centre (RCC), C-DAC, Bengaluru, as a part of ISEA project, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.

Attended the Cyber Defender program, organised by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. 

Actively participated in a two day workshop on Behavioural psychology, organised by SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Trichy.

Participated in the fifteen day Faculty Induction program, organised by SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Trichy.  

Participated in the workshop titled “Aligning your values: Exploring positionality and influence”, organised by the Genetics Society of America

Completed the course on Fundamentals of Grant writing, conducted by the YALI Network, USA.

Finished the course on Management strategies for people and resources, organised by the YALI network, USA. 

Worked as an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR at Saveetha School of Engineering (SIMATS), in the Department of Biotechnology.

Admissions In-charge for the Department of Biotechnology, SIMATS University during 2022-2023.

Teaching Assistant (TA) for the NPTEL course-Industrial Biotechnology, handled by Prof. Debabrata Das, IIT Kharagpur

Teaching Assistant (TA) for several laboratory and other academic courses for the undergraduates at IITM, thereby could teach and guide undergraduate students in their curriculum.

Worked as a Viva Voce Examiner for the Business Data Management course, conducted as a part of the B.Sc. in Programming and Data Science program, run by IIT-Madras.

Was the first student of my Thesis mentor at IIT-Madras and hence played a significant role in establishing the research laboratory, including handling the lab purchases and orders, training other PhD students and lab-technicians. 

Member of the Genetics Society of America, USA

Member of Young African Leaders Initiative, USA

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