Deepak Prabhu K

A keen lifelong learner with the passion and career objective to utilize practical experience and academic foundation to delve deeper into natural sustainable therapeutic solutions aiming to improve public health outcomes all while contributing value to organization through impactful projects and innovative initiatives. Starting a career in a reputed organization will give space to grow and enhance skill-set, thus enabling to contribute to the organization and community to maximum possible potential.

• Volunteered for the "Science and Engineering Research Board" SERB Sponsored Workshop on DIY Microfluidics for School Students on March 6th, 2023. This workshop was conducted under the “Scientific Social Responsibility Scheme” to facilitate hands-on training for school students to fabricate paper-based microfluidic devices, and integrate them with biochemical assays.
• Served as a member of 'The Institute of Engineers-Biotechnology(IEBT)', Manipal Chapter, which provides a platform for students to get a better understanding of the working world in the diverse areas of biotechnology
• Served as a member of 'Manipal Biomachines', a technical student club of Manipal University responsible for combining engineering principles with fundamental synthetic biology

• Awarded with the SERB Student Grant for a Research project, in 2023
• Participated in the Bio-Summit workshop conducted by Manipal and BITS Goa in 2021
• Participated in the 'All Karnataka Junior level Classical Tabla(musical Instrument) exam' in 2017 and received distinction
• Participated in the Taluk-level Athletic fest in 2015 under the men's 15 category in the 100m sprint

12/01/22 to 30/08/23 - "3D Pen with a cotton cartridge for on-site detection of Malachite Green dye coating on Okra"

-Developed a frugal '3D-Pen cassette' embedded with a cotton strand-based ink cartridge which can perform on-spot detection of a banned chemical used to extend the shelf-life of vegetables and products of aquaculture

- Gained hands-on experience in using UV- vis, FT-IR (Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopic) technique for the  interpretation of chemical bonds in a molecule

-Conducted computational studies using FIJI software for image intensity analysis that unveils the possible interactions  between vegetable surfaces, banned chemical substances as coating, and ink

08/01/23 to 12/05/23 - "Detection of color-enhancing agents in hair dyes using thread integrated devices"

-Led the research on certain conventional analytical methods to detect p-phenylenediamine conc. and other chemicals in hair dye. These include spectrometric analysis and high-performance liquid chromatography

01/01/24 to 30/07/24 - "Isolation and screening of Propanediol producing microorganisms from soil samples"

- Working on identifying species of microorganisms that can produce a specific compound utilizing a carbon source fed into the stock employing sequencing techniques

- Gained hands-on experience in Microbial techniques; and chromatographic techniques like Gas chromatography, TLC,  NMR and other downstream processing techniques

- Carried out gene sequencing techniques like PCR, FISH and 16S rRNA gene sequencing 

• Dr Divyashree M S, Associate Professor at Department Of Biotechnology, divyashree.ms@manipal.edu
• Raghavendra Paduvari, Research Scholar at Department Of Biotechnology, raghavendra.p1@learner.manipal.edu

• 3D Pen with cotton cartridge for on-site detection of Malachite Green Dye coating on Okra, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157524000553, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 128, April 2024, Impact factor: 4.52
• Synthesis of 1,2-PD from a novel strain of Brucella oryzae isolated from Chicken manure (Manuscript under review)