Dr. (Ms) Sivasinthujah Srikokulan

Chronology of the carrier

• Senior Lecturer: Faculty of Allied Health Sciences (Pharmacy), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. (Aug 2019- to date)
  Lecturer (Probationary): Faculty of Allied Health Sciences (Pharmacy), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. (Aug 2014- Aug 2019)
• Research Associate, Biomolecular Interaction Centre, College of Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Apr 2019- June 2019)
• Demonstrator: Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2017)
• Visiting Lecturer: Siddha Medicine, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka (2015)
• Assistant Lecturer: Department of Chemistry, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka (Apr 2014- Aug 2014)
• Demonstrator: Department of Chemistry, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka (May 2013 – Feb 2014)

Membership in subcommittees (current & past)

• Chairman/TEC, FAHS- 2020-to date
• Secretary/SWC/FAHS- 2020-to date
• Mentor/FAHS
• Faculty coordinator-IQAC/FAHS, 2021-to date
• Faculty coordinator-UBL/FAHS, 06-03-2020-to date.
• Appointments in university with years (head, coordinator, student counsellor, etc)
• Coordinator/Basic Sciences-2020-to date
• Student Counsellor- 2020, 2021
• Career Guidance Advisor, FAHS-2020- to date
• Senior treasure/ FAHS student’s union-2021

Membership

• Chairperson/Section C, Jaffna Science Association-section C (2021-to date)
• Secretary of Jaffna Science Association-section C (2015)
• Member of Jaffna Science Association (life member)
• Member of teacher’s union, Faculty of Medicine
• Member of ChemSoc -2016
• Member of New Zealand Institute of Chemistry-2019
• Member of Biochemical Society-2021

Awards

• URG 2021
• UC Doctoral Scholarship to pursue Ph.D degree at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand from 2015-2018.
• UC Foundation Doctoral Publication Scholarship for the publication in 2019 at University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
• Second place in the National Chemistry Olympiad Examination 2012 and participated in the 5th International Scientific Olympiad (Chemistry) competitions held in Kish Island, Iran (2012)
• University Prize for Best performance in Special Degree Examination in Science fourth year 2011
• “Sir Arunachalammahadeva Memorial prize in Chemistry” for attaining the best performance in Special Degree Examination in Chemistry 2011
• “Professor S. Mageswaran Gold Medal” for Best performance in Advanced Organic Chemistry at the Special Degree Examination 2011
• “Professor Rajeswary Mageswaran Gold Medal” in Inorganic Chemistry for best performance in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry at the Special Degree Examination 2011
• “Mr. Sithamparapillai Kandiah Gold Medal” in Physical Chemistryfor best performance in advanced physical Chemistry at the Special Degree Examination 2011
• University Prize for Best performance in Special Degree Examination in Science third year 2010
• University Prize for Best performance in Biological Science in second year 2009
• University Prize for Best performance in Biological Science in first year 2008

• Pharmaceutical Chemistry I, II, III
• Carbohydrate Chemistry
• Natural Product Chemistry
• Pharmaceutical Analysis

Research area

• Carbohydrate Chemistry
• Chemical Biology
• Natural product Chemistry

Research Publications

• Marqvorsen, M. H. S.; Paramasivam, S.; Doelman, W.; Fairbanks, A. J. & Van kasteren, S. I. 2019. Efficient synthesis and enzymatic extension of an n-glcnaz asparagine building block. Chem. Commun (camb). 55, 5287-5290.
• Paramasivam, S. & Fairbanks, A. J. 2019. Rapid synthesis of N-glycan oxazolines from locust bean gum via the lafont rearrangement. Carbohydr. Res., 477, 11-19.
• Sivasinthujah, P.; Srikaran, R.; Thavaranjit, A. C.; Velauthamurty, K.; Tharmila, C. J.; Abiman, P. & Iyngaran, P. 2014. Contents of nitrate, nitrite and the occurrence of bacteria in fermented cooked parboiled rice and their potential ingestion in the diet. J. Microbiol. Biotechn., 4, 56.

Conference proceedings

• S.Srikokulan, A.J.Fairbanks (2020). Synthesis of N-glycans for immunological studies. Proceedings of Institute of Mathematics and Management Conference on Mathematical &Biological Sciences (IMMCMBS) 2020, 29-30 October 2020, Melbourne-Australia, ISSN 2756-9144 (Online) pp.10.

Oral Presentation/Poster presentation

• Paramasivam, S. & Fairbanks, A. J. Synthesis and semisynthesis of N-glycans and ENGase catalysed glycosylation using Fmoc-Asn-GlcNAz as acceptor, Carbohydrates Gordon Research Conference 2019, Hong Kong.
• S.Srikokulan, A.J.Fairbanks (2020). Synthesis of N-glycans for immunological studies. Conference on Mathematical &Biological Sciences (IMMCMBS) 2020, 29-30 October 2020, Melbourne-Australia.
• Srikokulan Sivasinthujah. Synthesis of glycopeptide and glycoprotein remodelling, “2020 Virtual Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting”. 9-12, November 2020.
• S.Srikokulan, A.J.Fairbanks (2021). Synthesis of Glycopeptide and Glycoprotein Remodelling for Immunological Studies- 2120-ASBMB Glycans and Glycobiology, Experimental Biology 2021, April 27-30, 2021.