Senior Lecturer,
School of Biological Science
Qualifications:
- BSc (Hons) Biotechnology (AIMST)
- Msc in Biotechnology (AIMST)
- PhD in Science, QIU (Pursuing)
Teaching and Research Experience:
- Senior Lecturer – School of Biological Sciences, QIU (2017 to present)
- Lecturer- School of Biological Sciences, QIUP (2014-2017)
Research (2009 – 2012)
- Bacterial gene regulation and bacterial DNA manipulation (gene knockout)
Research (Present)
- Natural product development from medicinal plant (Ethnobotanical studies)
Research Interest:
- Microbiology
- Natural Products / in silico analysis
- Plant tissue culture
Administrative Appointments / Committee Involvements
- Programme Coordinator for BSc (Hons) Biotechnology (2015 – 2017)
- QIU Joint Research Animal Ethics (JREC) Committee member
- SBS industrial training coordinator (2023 – present)
- SBS final year project coordinator (2021 – 2023)
- Course coordinator (Biology of Organisms, Cell and Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Immunology & Immunotechniques, Human Physiology)
- Committee member of the UTAR Intervarsity Science Symposium (UISS) 2021, 2023
- Committee member of the QIU Intervarsity Science Symposium (QISS) 2022
Publications
- Teoh, W. Y., Yong, Y. S., Razali, F. N., Stephenie, S., Dawood Shah, M., Tan, J. K., … & Mohd Esa, N. (2023). LC-MS/MS and GC-MS Analysis for the Identification of Bioactive Metabolites Responsible for the Antioxidant and Antibacterial Activities of Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R. Br. Separations, 10(3), 215.
- Stephenie S., Chang Y. P. , Gnanasekaran A., Norhaizan M. E., Gnanaraj C. (2020). An insight on superoxide dismutase (SOD) from plants for mammalian health enhancement. Journal of Functional Foods, 68:103917
- Gnanaraj, C., Sekar, M., Fuloria, S., Swain, S. S., Gan, S. H., Stephenie S., .. & Fuloria, N. K. (2022). In silico molecular docking analysis of karanjin against alzheimer’s and parkinson’s diseases as a potential natural lead molecule for new drug design, development and therapy. Molecules, 27(9), 2834.
- Intellectual Properties Rights (Patents) – Use of Adenia cordifolia extract for wound healing. International Patent Number: WO2020/235987 (https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020235987)
Awards
- Gold Award & Special Award – Sustainable Development Goals International Innovation Awards (MTE 2023), Urostone – a polyherbal formulation for urolithiasis management.
- BVVS best oral presentation award – International Pharmacological Conference (IPCON) 2023, Karnataka, India.
- Silver Award – Sustainable Development Goals International Innovation Awards (MTE 2022), Malaysia, for our innovation of Ethnobotanical Study on Polyherbal Formulation of Hydrangea Sp, Berberis, Sp and Hemidesmus Sp in Treatment of Urolithiasis.
Grants
- Neuroprotective mechanism of Karanjin through regulation of NF-kB and TLR4 signalling pathways in experimental animal models of Parkinson’s disease. Reference Code – FRGS/1/2020/SKK06/UNIKL/03/2 (member)
- MyBrain15 (MyMasters) Scholarship (2011) – Cloning and Mutation Analysis of xerC gene of O139 Vibrio cholera
Information on Works Published (Conferences / Journals)
- Lim Kok Keong, Sarah Stephenie, Sivachandran,P, Kathiresan S, Ravichandran M and Lalitha P. BIODEGRADATION OF CHICKEN FEATHER INTO CYSTEINE BY CHRYSEOBACTERIUM INDOLOGENES. ICMSM (2009). Poster Presentation
