Education and Research Experience: Postdoc Research Fellow in Life Sciences September 2024-Onwards NOVA School of Science and Technology Postdoc Research Fellow in Biophysics October 2023- March 2024 Indian Institute of Science and Technology (IISER, India) PhD in Biotechnology (DST-INSPIRE Fellowship) August 2016 – August 2023 Panjab University, Department of Biotechnology Chandigarh MSc in Biotechnology (Gold Medalist) August 2013 –December 2015 Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India BSc (Honors) in Biotechnology (Gold Medalist) July 2010 –July 2013 Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India Awards and Fellowships: ¿ DST-INSPIRE (Department of Science and Technology, India) fellow, a prestigious National fellowship which is given to University first rank holder selected at two different levels among the whole university and affiliated college in particular science stream. ¿ Qualified Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) test in 2017 which is a National level competitive test in India. ¿ Achieved 1st position (Gold medalist) in University in Five Years Integrated M. Sc. Biotechnology program in Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (India). Core Competencies: Protein Purification *High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) *Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC) *Circular Dichroism (CD) *Fluorescence spectroscopy *Mass spectrometry * Animal Cell Culture Techniques *Flow cytomerty (FACS) *DAPI staining *Wound healing assay *Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) *Fluorescence Microscopy *Confocal microscopy *Fungal and Bacterial Strains Assays *Biofilm analysis of bacterial and fungal strains *Crystallization *Glycan-protein interaction prediction through Bioinformatics * Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) Markers Analysis. Publications: ¿ Sharma, S., et al., (2022). Antimicrobial Studies on Garlic Lectin. Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12602-022-10001-1 (IF 5) ¿ Sharma, S., & Singh, D. D. (2022). Investigations on the biological activity of Allium sativum agglutinin (ASA) isolated from Garlic. Protein & Peptide Letters, 29(6), 555-566. https://doi.org/10.2174/0929866529999220509122720 (IF 1.4) ¿ Sharma, S., et al., (2022). Chandigarh Science Congress-2022 (CHASCON-2022), A REPORT. Panjab University Research Journal (Science), 72, 67-70. International Conferences: ¿ Sharma S, Singh DD-Presented poster entitled “Garlic lectin and its potential anti-cancer activity in International Conference on Imminent Concerns & Applications (ICONICA), organized by Panajb University, Chandigarh from 12th to 14th February, 2020. ¿ Sharma S, Singh DD- Presented poster entitled “Role of lectins in cancer therapy” in the 5th Biennal International Conference on New Developments in Drug Discovery for natural Products and Traditional medicines (DDNPTM), organized by NIPER, Mohali from 18th to 20th November, 2016. Workshops and Scientific Meetings: ¿ Attended a research meeting entitled “Emerging technologies towards understanding the human glycans” organized at NOVA School of Science and Technology on 3rd September, 2024 ¿ Participated in the workshop entitled “Innovation, technology transfer and entrepreneurship” held at NOVA School of Science and Technology on 10th to11th October, 2024. Project Supervision and Teaching: ¿ I have co-supervised six master students in their six months projects (part of the degree) during my PhD. They have were trained in hand-on-experiments and scientific writing for their dissertarion. ¿ I have prepared and delivered scientific lectures to different courses of graduation and post-graduation classes among 50-100 students (depending upon the courses).