OBJECTIVE I am seeking teaching position in Microbiology and related disciplines to share my knowledge and experience with students.

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1 RICHA SHARMA 1060, Sector-A, Pocket-B, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi Contact No: richa2912@gmail.com OBJECTIVE I am seeking teaching position in Microbiology and related disciplines to share my knowledge and experience with students. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 2013 Ph.D Microbiology on the topic Keratinases from Pseudomonas aeruginosa KS-1: Characterization and degradation of surrogate prion protein Sup 35NM under the guidance of Prof. Rani Gupta, Dept. of Microbiology, University of Delhi, South Campus M.Sc. Microbiology from Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi. Secured 70% B.Sc. (H) Microbiology from Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi. Secured 70.3% Senior Secondary from Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, C.B.S.E. Board. Secured 83.4% 2000 Secondary from Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, C.B.S.E. Board. Secured 86.6%. ACADEMIC ACHIEVMENTS Awarded the Young Scientist Award for Environmental Microbiology by Association of Microbiologists of India in Foreign Travel grants awarded by DST and CSIR in Awarded UGC-NET JRF and SRF fellowship ( ). Qualified GATE-2007 with 95.9 percentile Awarded the All India Post Graduate Scholarship by Delhi University, Awarded Sonia Ashta Award for the Best student of Microbiology, Special Merit award for securing highest marks in BSc.(H) Microbiology, Merit Certificate for securing highest marks in Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology and Aggregate in B. Sc (H) Microbiology,

2 PUBLICATIONS 1. Gupta R., Rajput R., Sharma R. and Gupta N. (2013) Biotechnological applications and prospective market of microbial keratinases. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2. Gupta R., Sharma R. and Beg Q. (2012) Revisiting microbial keratinases: Next generation proteases for sustainable biotechnology. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology (DOI: / ). 3. Sharma R., Verma V.V. and Gupta R. (2013) Functional characterization of an extracellular keratinolytic protease, Ker AP from Pseudomonas aeruginosa KS-1: A putative aminopeptidase with PA domain. Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic 91: Sharma R. and Gupta R. (2012) Coupled action of γ-glutamyl transpeptidase-glutathione and keratinase effectively degrades feather keratin and surrogate prion protein, Sup 35NM. Bioresource Technology ( 5. Sharma R., Murty N.A.R. and Gupta R. (2011) Molecular Characterization of N-Terminal Pro-sequence of Keratinase Ker P from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Identification of Region with Chaperone Activity. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (DOI: /s z). 6. Sharma R. and Gupta R. (2010) Extracellular expression of keratinase Ker P from Pseudomonas aeruginosa in E. coli. Biotechnology Letters, 32: Sharma R. and Gupta R. (2010) Substrate specificity characterization of a thermostable keratinase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa KS-1. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 37: Sharma R. and Gupta R. (2010) Thermostable, thiol activated keratinase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa KS-1 for prospective applications in prion decontamination. Research Journal of Microbiology 5 (10): Rajput R., Tiwary E., Sharma R. and Gupta R. (2012) Swapping of pro-sequences between keratinases of Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus pumilus: Altered substrate specificity and thermostability. Enzyme and Microbial Technology 51: Murty N.A.R., Tiwary E., Sharma R., Nair N. and Gupta R. (2012) γ-glutamyl transpeptidase from Bacillus pumilus KS 12: Decoupling autoprocessing from catalysis and molecular characterization of N-terminal region. Enzyme and Microbial Technology Rajput R., Sharma R. and Gupta R. (2010) Cloning and characterization of a thermostable, detergent-compatible recombinant keratinase from Bacillus pumilus KS12. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 58:

3 12. Rajput R., Sharma R. and Gupta R. (2010) Biochemical characterization of a thiol activated, oxidation stable keratinase from Bacillus pumilus KS12. Enzyme Research (DOI: /2010/132148). BOOK CHAPTERS 1.Gupta R., Tiwary E., Sharma R., Rajput R. and Nair N. (2013) Microbial keratinases: Diversity and Applications; Thermophilic Microbes in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology: Biotechnology of Thermophiles, DOI / _33, Springer Science. 2.Sharma R. (2013) Bacterial culturing techniques; Virtual learning environment; Institute of Life Long Learning ( POSTERS PRESENTED 1. Richa Sharma, S. Suresh Kumar, Kashika Paliwal and Rani Gupta (2011) Characterization of Biosurfactant producing yeast isolates from petroleum sludge and production of a thermostable glycolipid from Trichosporon asahii MSR-54 presented at the Indo-Swedish International conference on Biotechnology for sustainable development held at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. 2. Richa Sharma and Rani Gupta (2008) Keratinase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa KS-1: Structural and biochemical basis of feather degradation. The annual conference of All India Microbiologists of India held at New Delhi. 3. Richa Sharma and Rani Gupta (2011) Prion degrading keratinase Ker P from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Molecular Characterisation of its N-terminal pro-sequence. 4 th Congress of European Microbiologists organized by FEMS at Geneva, Switzerland. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Bacterial γ-glutamyl transpeptidase: Characterization and application as debittering enzyme. Project sanctioned by DST under the Fast Track Young Scientist Scheme on September 2013 for a period of three years. Keratinases from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Characterization and degradation of surrogate prion protein, Sup 35NM; PhD research done under the guidance of Prof. Rani Gupta, Dept. of Microbiology, University of Delhi, South Campus.

4 Cloning and overexpression of Kluyveromyces lactis β- galactosidase gene in E.coli; dissertation done under the supervision of Dr. Swati Saha for the partial fulfillment of the M.Sc. degree in Microbiology from University of Delhi. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor (Adhoc basis) in the Department of Microbiology at Gargi College, University of Delhi from August 2013 Till date. Assistant Professor (Guest faculty) in the Department of Microbiology at Gargi College, University of Delhi from Assistant Professor (Guest faculty) in the Department of Microbiology at Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi from Mentored a project entitled Biochemical characterization of γ-glutamyl transpeptidase from Bacillus species under the Star College Scheme, DBT at Gargi College (2014). Actively participated in conducting a Summer workshop on interdisciplinary sciences at Gargi College, SKILLS SUMMARY Microbiology and Biochemistry Well versed in various microbiology techniques such as culturing, selection, enrichment, isolation, quantitative estimation and identification of micro-organisms; microscopy; spectrophotometry; enzyme assays, protein purification, immunological assays (e.g. Dot- Blot, Radial Immunodiffusion, ELISA), quantification of biomolecules. Molecular Biology Techniques DNA extraction, primer designing, PCR, cloning, protein expression and purification, SDS- PAGE, western blot. Softwares and Database Windows and Mac; MS Office; Adobe Photoshop; Sigma Plot; Molecular biology suites such as NCBI Genbank, BLAST, Clustal-W, Signal P, NEB-cutter, Pymol; Endnote. Management Basic laboratory management, grant writing, mentoring and training students in laboratory techniques.

5 PERSONAL DETAILS Date of Birth : 29 th December, 1983 Father s Name : Mr. B.M. Sharma Marital Status : Unmarried Gender : Female Language Known : English, Hindi Nationality : Indian DECLARATION I hereby declare that the above-furnished details are true to the best of my knowledge. RICHA SHARMA