Antimicrobial Peptides

Dr. Sreejith is the Research Director of Kannur University since 2018. He received an MPhil in Biophysics and a PhD in Biochemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. He has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience. His area of research is antimicrobial peptides and proteins, anti-inflammatory compounds, and cancer biology. Since 2008, his team has contributed extensively in the aforementioned area with publications appearing in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Peptides, and Mycopathologia. He has presented papers in the II International conference on antimicrobial research, Lisbon, Portugal-2012 and European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 2016. He is a life member of the Indian Peptide Society (IPS). Since 2003 he has been serving Kannur University in its Board of studies in Microbiology as a member, and from 2010 onwards he is the Chairman. He has completed his master’s in Microbiology from Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India, and received a PhD in Microbiology from Kannur University, Kerala, India. His area of research is peptide antibiotics, biofilms, drug resistance, and Phage therapy. He has more than five years of teaching and research experience. His contribution in antimicrobial peptides and drug resistance appeared in various journals including Peptides, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology, and Mycopathologia. He has been a Board of Studies member in Microbiology (2014-18) and Chairman, Board of Examiners in Biotechnology and Microbiology (2012-15), Kannur University. He is a reviewer of the Journal of Bacteriology and Mycology. He is a member of the Indian Peptide Society (IPS), the Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance (IIMAR), and the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM).