CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Information:
NameDesignation
Address / DR. RIAZ MAHMOOD
Professor
Dept. of P.G Studies and Research in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Kuvempu University, Jnanasahyadri
Shankaraghatta-577 451, Shimoga Dist.
Karnataka, INDIA
Contact Number and E-mail / 08282-256235 (O); 94483 40841 (Cell)
;
Date of Birth / 10.06.1961
Marital Status ; Issues / Married ; Two Children
Nationality / Indian
01. Educational Qualifications:
Name of the Degree / University / Year of Award & Class / Subjects/ThesisPh.D / University of Mysore / 1994 / “Comparative Analysis of Inducible Repair Processes in Animal Systems”
M.Sc / University of Mysore / 1986
First Class / Subject: Zoology
Specialisation: Genetics
B.Sc / University of Mysore / 1984
Second Class / Chemistry; Botany; Zoology
Certificate course in Kannada / University of Mysore / 1992
First Class / Kannada
02. Research Experience:
Year &Duration / Institution/
University / Fellowship/Funding
Agency / Title of the Work
Post-Doctoral Research
Sept. 1999 to
Aug. 2000 / Centre for Molecular Biology and Toxicology / Commonwealth Fellowship-PDF
Commonwealth Commission (British Council - United Kingdom) / Molecular Toxicology of Environmental Pesticides
May 1994 to
Jan. 1995 / Dept. of Zoology
University of Mysore / Post-Doctoral Research Associateship
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. / Molecular Mechanism of Adaptive Response in Animal Systems
Doctoral Research
1991-1994 / Dept. of Zoology
Univ. of Mysore / Senior Research Fellow (SRF)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi / Comparative Analysis of Inducible Repair Processes in Animal Systems
1990-1991 / Dept. of Zoology
Univ. of Mysore / Senior Research Fellow (SRF)
University Grants Commission,
New Delhi / -- Do --
1988-1990 / Dept. of Zoology
Univ. of Mysore / Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
University Grants Commission,
New Delhi / -- Do --
03. A. Teaching Experience:
Designation / University / Institution / PeriodProfessor / Kuvempu University
Dept. of Biotechnology
Jnansahyadri, Shankaraghatta-577 451 / 16th June 2006 – Till Date
Reader / Kuvempu University
Dept. of Biotechnology
Jnansahyadri, Shankaraghatta-577 451 / 16th June 1998 – 15th June 2006
Lecturer / Mangalore University
Dept. of Biosciences
Mangalagangotri-574 199 / 04th Jan 1996 – 15th June 1998
B. Programmes Taught: M.Sc Biosciences; M.Sc Life Sciences; M.Sc Biotechnology;
M.Sc. Bioinformatics and M.Phil Biotechnology
C. Courses Taught: Genetics and Breeding, Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics, Molecular
Biology, Toxicology, Genetic Engineering, Animal Biotechnology,
Research Methodology, Bioethics & Biosafety, IPR, Medical Biotechnology
04. Publications:
Book Articles: 04
1. V. Vasudev, Riaz Mahmood and N. B. Krishnamurthy (1995): Adaptive response in in vivo animal systems: In Sobti R.C (Ed.). Environmental Mutagenesis: A General Perspective (pp. 167-178). Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
2. V. Vasudev, Riaz Mahmood, S. K. Harish and K.P. Guruprasad (1997): Comparative Analysis of error-free DNA repair (adaptive response) induced by EMS and MMS in Poecilocerus pictus and mouse. In P. P. Reddy (Ed.) . Environmental Pollution and Genetic Risk (pp.132-193). Osmania University, Hyderabad.
3. V. Vasudev, Riaz Mahmood and N. B. Krishnamurthy (2005): Pesticides as Environmental
Pollutants and their Biological Effects: in Dutt. N. H (Ed.). Environmental Pollution and
Control. Neelkamal Pub. Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad.
4. Vidya .N, Riaz Mahmood and B.A Rahiman (2007): Human Genome Sequence: Scope
for post- genomic analysis using Bioinformatic approaches. In, Trivedi (Ed.). Medical
Biotechnology. Aavishkar Publications, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Study Material: 03
1. Riaz Mahmood. Cell and Molecular Biology. M.Sc Biotechnology. Directorate of Distance
Education, Kuvempu University, Shankarghatta. 2005.
2. Riaz Mahmood. Animal Cell Culture and Technology. M.Sc Biotechnology. Directorate
of Distance Education, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta. 2006.
3. Riaz Mahmood and V. Krishna. Recombinant DNA Technology. Directorate of
Distance Education, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta. 2006.
Research papers: 73 (Intl. 58 + Ntl. 15)
1. Riaz Mahmood and Vasudev.V: (1990) Inducible Protective Processes in Animal systems
I. Clastogenic Adaptation triggered by Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) in Poecilocerus
pictus,Biol Zent Bl., 109(1) 41-43
2. V. Vasudev, Riaz Mahmood and N. B. Krishnamurthy: (1990) Response of Drosophila
Melanogaster to a Carbamate Pesticide – Furadan, Trends in Eco Toxicology, 179-184
3. Riaz Mahmood and Vasudev.V: (1991) Inducible Protective Processes in Animal systems
:II. Absence of Adaptive Response when mitotic cells of mouse are exposed to low dose of
EMS and challenged after a short-time lag. Cell and Chromosome Research 14 (2/1), 55-61
4. Riaz Mahmood and Vasudev.V: (1992) Inducible Protective Processes in Animal systems
III. Adaptive Response of Meiotic cells of grasshopper, Poecilocerus pictus to low dose of
ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS), Mutation Research, 283,243-247
5. Riaz Mahmood and Vasudev.V:(1992) Adaptive Response in in vivo animal systems.
EMSI News letter Vol.16 (3), 1-5
6. Riaz Mahmood and Vasudev.V: (1993) Inducible Protective Processes in Animal systems
IV. Adaptation of mouse bone marrow cells to low dose of ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS).
Mutagenesis, 8(1), 83-86
7. Riaz Mahmood and Vasudev.V: (1994) Effect of ethyl methanesulfonate on the meiotic
chromosomes of grasshopper, Poecilocerus pictus: Dose-effect relationships: Biol Zent. Bl.,
112, 288-299
8. Riaz Mahmood and Vasudev.V: (1994) Inducible Protective Processes in Animal systems
I. Clastogenic Adaptation triggered by methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) in Poecilocerus
pictus, Biol Zent Bl., 113, 293-303
9. Riaz Mahmood and Vasudev.V: (1996) Inducible Protective Processes in Animal systems
VI: Adaptive response to low dose of methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) in mouse bone
marrow cells. Ind. J. Exp. Biol., 34, 502-507
10.Riaz Mahmood, S.K Harish, K.P Guruprasad and V. Vasudev: (1998) Inducible Protective Processes in Animal systems. Adaptive Response to low dose of alkylating agents in human lymphocytes. Ind. J. Exp. Biol., 36, 1147-1150
11. Vasudev. V. Riaz Mahmood, S.K. Harish and Guruprasad: (1998) Effect of methyl
methanesulfonate on the meiotic chromosomes of grasshopper, Poecilocerus pictus: dose
effect relationships: Pro. Acad. Environ. Biol., 7(1), 72-80
12. S K Harish, K P Guruprasad, Riaz Mahmood and V. Vasudev: (2000) Inducible
Protective Processes in Animal systems. VI. Cross-adaptation and the influence of
caffeine on the adaptive response in bone marrow cells of mouse. Mutagenesis, 15(3),
271-276.
13. Niranjan. V, Mahmood. R, Rahiman. B. A, Jayaram Reddy, Palaniappan K, and
Shivakumar. D. (2006) A study of Apg 4a and its role in Autophagy using Bioinformatics
approach. Biovistas 1.
14. Niranjan. V, Mahmood. R, Rahiman B. A, Jayaram Reddy and Stanley. A (2006) Novel
Algorithm for predicting psuedogenes in human Xq22.1 chromosomal region. Biovistas 1.
15. Vidya. N, Mahmood. R, Shivakumar. D and Alex. S (2006) Prediction of 3D-structure of
Autophagin 2. (Structure registered) Protein Databank, ID No. 2FUY.
16. Niranjan, V.; Mahmood, R.; Kapil, N.; Reddy, J.; Sivakumar, D (2006) Magee1 A cancer
related protein. (Structure registered) Protein Data bank, ID No. 2H5T
17. Suresh Mathivanan P, Balamurugan Periaswamy, T.K.B Gandhi, Kumaran Kandasamy, Shubha Suresh, Riaz Mahmood, Y.L. Ramachandra and Akhilesh Pandey. (2006). An Evaluation of Human Protein-Protein Interaction Data in the Public Domain. BMC Bioinformatics.
18. Vageeshbabu S, Hanur .,D. P. Prakash, B. S. Deepali, R. Asokan, Y. L. Ramachandra,
Riaz Mahmood, and Lalitha Anand. (2006) Synergistic use of hypocotyl explants and
high BAP pre conditioning for enhanced transformation frequency in Brinjal (Solanum melanogena.L.) Journal of Horticultural Science.
19. Suresh M, … Riaz Mahmood…., A. Khilesh Pandey,.(2008). Human Proteinpedia enables sharing of human protein data. Nature Biotechnology 26 (2). 164-167.
20. Niranjan V, Mahmood, R. ,Kalaivani.A. and Sudha.S. (2008) Study of Cancer Genes in X-chromosome. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology. 12(4)31-55.
21. V. Niranjan, R. Mahmood and A. KalaiVani (2008). UTR Mutation Analysis. Journal of
Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics 1 (1). 55-63.
22. Niranjan.V, R. Mahmood, M. Balamurugan, Nitesh Kumar Roy, Subho Ghosh (2008). Analysis of plasma proteins encoded by the X-chromosome. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology. 12(4) 52-59.
23. H.R. Prakash Naik, H.S. Bhojya Naik, T.R. Ravikumar Naik, H. Raja Naika, K.Gouthamchandra, R. Mahmood, B.M. Khadeer Ahamed.(2009) Synthesis of novel benzo[h]quinolines: Wound healing, antibacterial, DNA binding and in vitro antioxidant activity, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Vol. 44, 981-989.
24. Manoj Kumar Kashyap,....Riaz Mahmood,.... A. Khilesh Pandey (2009) Genomewide
mRNA profiling of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma for identification of Cancer biomarkers. Cancer Biology and Therapy 8 (1) 1-11.
25. Keshava Prasad T. S…..Riaz Mahmood…. A. Khilesh Pandey (2009) Human Protein Reference Database—2009 update. Nucleic Acids Research (Online) doi:10.1093/nar/gkn892.
26. Gouthamchandra Kuluvar, Riaz Mahmood, Basheer Mohamed Khadeer Ahamed, Parameshwarappa Suresh Babu, Venkatarangaiah Krishna (2009) Wound-healing Activity of Clerodendrum infortunatum L. Root Extracts. International Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences 3 (1), 21-25.
27. K. Gouthamchandra, R. Mahmood , H. Manjunatha (2010) Free radical scavenging, antioxidant enzymes and wound healing activities of leaves extracts from Clerodendrum infortunatum L. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 30, 11-18
28. Maruthi T Ekbote, CK Ramesh Riaz Mahmood, BS Thippeswamy and Veeresh Verapur (2010). Hepatoprotective and antioxidant effect of Azima tetracantha Lam. Leaves extracts against CCl4 induced liver injury in rats. Indian Journal of natural Products and Resources. Vol. 1(4) 493-499.
29. Maruthi T Ekbote, CK Ramesh Riaz Mahmood, BS Thippeswamy and Veeresh Verapur (2010). Anti-inflammatoryand analgesic activities of Azima tetracantha Lam leaves. Journal of Pharmacy Research. 3(3), 478-481.
30. T Ekbote, C.K Ramesh Riaz Mahmood, BS Thippeswamy and Veeresh Verapur (2010) Evaluation of Antipyretic activity of Azima tetracantha Lam in rats. Biotechnology. An Indian Journal. 49(1).
31. Maruthi Ekbote, Ramesh CK and Riaz Mahmood (2010). Evaluation of Anthelmitic and Antimicrobial activities of Azima tetracantha Lam. International Journal Pharmaceutical Sciences. 2(1):375-381.
32. Pradeep S.M, Riaz Mahmood and KS Jagdeesh ((2010). Screening and characterization of L-asparaginase producing microorganisms from tulsi (Ocimum sanctorum. L). Karnataka J. Agric. Sci., 23 (4): 660-662.
33. Kashyap, Manoj Kumar; Marimuthu, Arivusudar; Peri, Suraj; Kumar, Ghantasala S Sameer; Jacob, Harrys KC; Prasad, Thottethodi Subrahmanya Keshava; Mahmood, Riaz; Kumar, KV; Kumar, M Vijaya; Meltzer, Stephen J; (2010). Overexpression of periostin and lumican in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 2(1): 133-142.
34. Adithya Adhikari, Balkrishna Kalluraya, K.V Sujith, Gouthachandra and Riaz Mahmood (2011). Synthesis, characterization and biological evaluation of dihydropyrimidine derivatives. Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal. Doi:10.1016/j.jsps 2011.04.002.
35. Adithya Adhikari, Balkrishna Kalluraya, K.V Sujith, Gouthachandra and Riaz Mahmood (2011). Synthesis, pahramacoplogical studies of some 1-(substituted benzylidine)-2-(2-carbethoxy-4-nitrophenyl) hydrazines. Scholar Research Library 3(1): 214-220.
36. Adithya Adhikari, Balkrishna Kalluraya, Kizhakke Veedu Sujith, Kuluvar Gouthamchandra and Riaz Mahmood (2011).Microwave assisted synthesis of novel thiazolidinone analogues as possible bioactive agents (2011). Journal of Advanced Research, doi:10.1016/j.jare.2011.10.003
37. Mahadeva Swamy H. M, R. Asokan, S. N. Nagesha, D. K Arora, Ajantha Birah and Riaz Mahmood. (2011). Cloning, Characterization and Diversity of Insecticidal Crystal Protein Genes of Bacillus thuringiensis Native isolates from Soils of Andaman and Nicobar islands. Current Microbiology DOI 10.1007/s00284-011-9998-x (Online).
38. Seema Tharannum, V. Krishnamurthy and Riaz Mahmood (2011). Chromium distribution in effluent samples sourced from electroplating industries of Bangalore city, India. Proceedings of International Conference on Biotechnology and Environment Management IPCBEE Vol. 18, 105-109.
39. Nagaraja T. S, Riaz Mahmood, V. Krishna and Ekbote Maruthi T (2011). Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of Erythrina mysorensis Gamb. International Journal of Drug /development and Research, Vol. 3 (2) 198-202.
40. Sara Sunitha, V. Krishnamurthy and Riaz Mahmood (2011). Analysis of Endosulfan residues in cultivated soils in Southern India. Proceedings of International Conference on Biotechnology and Environment management IPCBEE Vol. 18, 105-109.
41. Thomas, K.D, Adhikari, Airody Vasudeva, Telkar Sandeep, Chowdhury Imran H, Mahmood, Riaz, Pal Nishith K, Row Guru, Sumesh E. (2011) Design, synthesis and docking studies of new quinoline-3-carbohydrazide derivatives as antitubercular agents. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 46(11) 5283-5292.
42. Thomas KD, Adhikari Airody Vasudeva, Chowdhury Imran H, Sandeep T, Mahmood R, Bhattacharya B, Sumesh E. (2011). Design, synthesis and docking studies of quinoline-oxazolidinone hybrid molecules and their antitubercular properties European journal of medicinal chemistry. 46(10).4834-4845.
43. Nagaraja T. S, Riaz Mahmood, V. Krishna, B. S Thippeswamy and V. P Veerapur (2012). Anticonvulsant activity of Erythrina mysorenesis bark extract in an animal model of epilepsy. Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics, Vol. 3(1), 56-58.
44. Seema Tharannum, Krishnamurthy V and Riaz Mahmood (2012) Characterization of chromium remediating bacterium Bacillus subtilis isolated from electroplating effluent. International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) Vol. 2 (4), 961-966.
45. Tharannum S, Krishnamurthy V and Riaz Mahmood (2012) Bacillus sp. Enrichment culture clone PES A 16S ribosomal RNA gene partial sequence). GenBank: JX081215.1
46. Tharannum S, Krishnamurthy V and Riaz Mahmood (2012) Pseudomonas sp. Enrichment culture clone PES3a 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. GenBank: JX081247.1
47. Malladi Shridhar, Isloor, Arun M, Shetty Prashanth, Fun Hoong Kun, Telkar Sandeep, Mahmood Riaz, Isloor Nishitha.(2012). Synthesis and anti-inflammatory evaluation of some new 3, 6-disubstituted-1, 2, 4-triazolo-[3, 4-b]-1, 3, 4-thiadiazoles bearing pyrazole moiety. Medicinal Chemistry Research. 21(10). 3272-3280
48. Mahadeva Swamy H.M, R. Asokan, Geetha G. Thimmegowda and Riaz Mahmood. (2012) Expression of cry3A gene and its toxicity against Asian Gray Weevil Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Marshall (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Basic Microbiology. DOI 10.1002/jobm.201200272. 1 – 13.
49. H. M. Mahadeva swamy H. M *, S. N. Nagesha, T. K. S. Gowda, R. Asokan and Riaz Mahmood (2012) Isolation, characterization and detection of cry gene contents from Bacillus thuringiensis native isolates in southern States of India. Plant Cell Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. 13(1-4). 1-14.
50. Aditya Rao S.J , C.K Ramesh* , I.J Kuppast , Riaz Mahmood , Prabhakar B.T (2012). CNS Depressant activity in two species of Mulberry. Journal of Pharmacy Research. 2012,5(9),4879-4880.
51. Manoj Kumar Kashyapa,, Harsh A. Pawara, Shivakumar Keerthikumara,, Jyoti Sharma, Renu Goel, Riaz Mahmood, M. Vijaya Kumar, K.V. Veerendra Kumar, Akhilesh Pandey, Rekha V. Kumar, T.S. Keshava Prasad, and H.C. Harsha (2012). Evaluation of protein expression pattern of stanniocalcin 2, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7, inhibin beta A and four and a half LIM domains 1 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Biomarkers 12 (2012/2013) 1–9 1, DOI 10.3233/CBM-120289,