Vishal Dashora

Education

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  Ram Lal Anand College

  2013 - 2016

  Bachelors Microbiology (Hons)

  Activities and Societies: 1. Student Editor (English) for College Magazines ‘Samdrishti’ and ‘Srijan' 2. Completed a three year project entitled, "Potable water in various regions of Delhi and NCR: Assessment of the quality, resources and remediation" under the "Innovation Projects" program for undergraduates 3. Presented a Poster titled ‘Impact of sanitary landfills on microbiological activity and water quality index of groundwater in Delhi, India’ at 56th Annual AMI Conference in 2015. Undergraduate research project summary: Various groundwater samples were collected from all over Delhi and NCR for the assessment of their microbiological and physico-chemical quality. Out of 130 samples tested, approximately 48% did not meet the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) standards for drinking water

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  University of Delhi

  2016 - 2018

  Master of Science Microbiology

  Activities and Societies: 1. Completed dissertation work under Prof. J.S. Virdi entitled, "Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli strain PA-2017 isolated from the river Yamuna, Delhi 2. Presented a poster titled “Characterization of resistance genes in E. coli isolated from waste-water and virtual screening of ligand library for inhibitor candidates of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase, NDM-1” at NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT) 2018, Jaipur Dissertation work summary (July 2017 To April 2018): E. coli strain isolated from the Yamuna River was found resistant to multiple antibiotic classes, with all resistance genes present on a single F plasmid. Nucleotide probes were tailored for a diagnostic kit targeting these antibiotic resistance genes. Moreover, employing molecular docking techniques, promising inhibitor candidates were identified for New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1).