
With more than 15 years of experience in research and teaching, she has attended several
conferences and been resource person at National and International level. Her latest visit to the
U.S.A where she was invited as speaker to present a research paper on Zika virus at the First
International Conference on Zika Virus 2017 held at Washington D.C, 2017. Her major research areas
include Parasitology with special interest in Malaria in the city of Mangaluru where drug
resistance is beginning to appear. She is presently working in the division of Bioinformatics and
Computational genomics with increased surveillance and research on various viruses spreading
across the globe.
Assistant Professor, Nitte University Center for Science Education and Research, Mangaluru (2013- till date)
Project Assistant, College of Fisheries, Mangaluru (2006-2013)
Molecular characterization of malarial plasmodium
Malaria and Antimicrobial Resistance
Molecular Biology
Bioinformatics
Sequencing and bioinformatics
Member, Board of Studies in Biological Sciences (UG and PG), Nitte DU
Member, Lab Vigilance Committee, NUCSER
Program Officer-NSS, NUCSER
Dr. Krishna Kumar Ballamoole is a molecular microbiologist, obtained Ph.D. (Microbiology) from Manipal University. His research focuses on understanding and characterizing the genomic patterns that drives the evolution and infection capabilities of microbial pathogens of humans and animals. His work combines classical microbiological methods, molecular biology tool and next-generation sequencing strategies as fundamental tools to shed light on evolution, virulence capabilities and antibiotic resistance mechanisms in clinically relevant human and animal pathogens. In addition to pursuing the main research interest, the he is also involved in developing monoclonal antibody and nucleic acid based rapid diagnostics for the detection of pathogens.