Manasa Manoj Kumar Sudha

Mary Sturge, Block C4 Floor 14

Flat 47 Room No. 4
Aston street, Birmingham B4 7UJ U.K
Ph No. 07771216041
E mail: [email protected]
Date of birth- 24-06-1998
Nationality- India

OBJECTIVE:
Looking to obtain a part time job position in clinical research to have a further in-depth knowledge
of the working principles in relevance to life science and to develop a social expertise in the research
methods.

EDUCATION:
2019-Current Aston university, Birmingham U.K
MSc Stem cells and regenerative medicine
2015-2019 Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India
B. Tech Genetic engineering
Grade- 89% (First class with distinction)
2012-2015 Govt. H.S.S Chathannoor, Kollam, Kerala, India
A level: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Hindi
Grade- 92.5%
GCSE: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Hindi, I.T, Social science
Grade- 94%

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
• Brutish council student ambassador of India. (2019- Current)
• GATE 2019 with an All India Rank of 2060
• JAM 2019 with an All India Rank of 1145

COMMUNICATION SKILLS/SOFT SKILLS

• Confident and able to guide my peers through my effective communication, this was
evident during my journey as an Event manager for a National Conference held in my
university.
• Presented project work both individually and as part of a team in poster presentation during
my undergraduate degree. This involved preparing power point slides, delivering a
presentation to a varied audience and producing a written report.
• Computer Skills: MS Office, Power Point Presentation, Excel, Access, Bio informatic
software.

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TEAMWORK AND ORGANISATION

• Able to achieve an agreed objective together with my group members during assignments
and projects.
• Strong planning skills in the clinical and environment and during events, I am able to plan
ahead and plot alternatives to the changing scenarios.
• Understand each team members area of interest and allocate jobs based on their ability to
ensure efficacy of the project or an event.
• Worked with a team of 4 students to complete a research project during my undergraduate
degree.

RELEVENT EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS

Project trainee| Laboratory of cytogenetics and molecular diagnostics, Division of cancer

research, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum 695011 India| December 2018- March 2019

Assigned responsibilities
• Sample collection and storage.
• Maintaining patients records and confidentiality
• Sample analysis by molecular biology techniques and Cytogenetics
• I was able to interact with cancer patients gently and to understand their potential needs.
• I had learnt to work for long hours and have also to handle patients when they come to collect their
results
• Successfully completed a research project entitled “Cytogenetic profiling and FLT3-ITD mutation
screening of adult De Novo Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients” as a team of 4 students under the
supervision of PhD scholars and lab head.

Skills Acquired
• Blood culture from bone marrow and peripheral blood
• GTG banding
• Fluorescence in situ hybridization
• Cytogenetics
• DNA Isolation from blood
• DNA sequence data analysis
• PCR and Agarose gel electrophoresis
• Peripheral blood mononuclear cells culture

Research fellow| Department of Bio informatics and computational Biology, Sri Venkateshwara
College, New Delhi, India 110021| July 2018- September 2018

• Was assigned as Summer Research Fellow 2018 by Indian Academy of Science.

• Successfully completed a research project entitled “Design of peptide-based inhibitors as
antimalarial therapeutics” where I had learnt to work individually under minimal supervision.

Skills Acquired
• Experience with Bio informatics software and databases

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• Molecular docking
• Protein-Protein docking
• Drug designing
• Peptide designing

Lab trainee| Training in Microbiology| Travancore medical college &hospital, Kollam, Kerala,
India 691589| 01 July 2016-31 July 2016

Assigned responsibilities
• Sample collection
• Maintained lab records and patient details
• Performed specific microbial culture, immunological and biochemical tests to identify disease.
• Provided patients with their results

Skills acquired
• Microbial culture and subculture
• Sterilisation techniques
• Immunological tests such as ELISA
• Biochemical tests

Lab trainee| Advanced training in Molecular biology and rDNA technology| Biogenix research
centre Trivandrum, Kerala, India 695012| 01 June 2017-15 June 2017

Skills acquired
• Animal cell culture
• Handling of fluorescent microscopy
• Cell staining
• Genotoxicity assays such as comet assay, MTT assay etc.
• Agarose Gel electrophoresis
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Real time PCR
• HPLC
• DNA, RNA isolation and cDNA synthesis
• Recombinant DNA technology using cloning kit
• SDS PAGE
• Western blotting
• Fluorimetry

Internship trainee| Internship training on DNA barcoding and fingerprinting| Unibiosys, Kochi,
Kerala, India 682022| 10 January 2018- 25 January 2018

Skills acquired
• RAPD
• RFLP
• AFLP
• Bio informatics tools and databases

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AWARDS

• 2nd prize for paper presentation on National level symposium “Recent Advances in Genetic
Engineering” at Bharath institute of higher education and research (2017).
• 1st prize for poster presentation on national conference of “Medical genetics and genetic
counselling” conducted by Center for medical genetics at Bharath institute of higher education and
research (2018).

PAPER PUBLICATIONS

• “Genotoxicity of selected insecticides in glycine max Root cells by single cell gel electrophoresis
(comet) assay” (Mini project done for academic purpose 2017) has been published in IJISRT in
volume 3, issue 11, November – 2018.
• “Shifting of Risk Groups in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients with FLT3–ITD Mutation:
Challenge in the Disease Prognosis” (Article under review-IJBDD-RW-19-14).

OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Junior Red Cross (JRC) cadet at school from 2010 to 2013 and passed examinations till C level
conducted by Junior Red Cross, Kerala state branch. During that period, I involved in all volunteer
activities at school.
• Participated in National level workshop on “Protein Sequencing Techniques” conducted by
Biotecnika info labs Pvt.Ltd (2018)
• Participated in National level workshop on “Developmental Biology-Gametogenesis and
fertilization.” conducted by Biotecnika info labs Pvt.Ltd (2018).
• Participated in One day workshop on Genome editing tool-CRISPR CAS9 by Wise corner labs
Chennai (2018).
• Participated in one-day joint BIHER-IISC research colloquium on “Advancements in gene
manipulation” (2017).
• Participated in Laboratory Animal Experimentation for Researchers Part 1of 4, conducted by
Department of Biotechnology of India (2016).
• Participated in national science day celebration 2019 at Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum
Kerala (2019).
• Participated in one day hands on workshop of Foldscope at Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum
Kerala (2019).

STRENGTHS
• Believe in accepting challenging tasks. I look at them as opportunities to learn. • Hardworking and
fast learning
• Believe in collaboration and cooperation. Hence has been a successful team Player.
• Great interest in learning newer aspects of science.

REFEREES
References are available upon request