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Postgraduate Training

The staff of the Department of Microbiology is involved in the following training programmes

MD in Medical Microbiology, PGIM - clinical training and dissertation supervision

MSc in Medical Microbiology, PGIS - teaching and supervision of independent studies and supervision of the research component

Research degrees - MPhil and PhDs
Potential students are invited to go through the profiles of the academic staff members, and email
them to see the possibility of joining the research teams as a research postgraduate student.

Details of Ongoing Registered Students, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine

Name of the student	Names of all supervisors	Degree Registered	Tentative Title
Ms. K.R.P. Karunathilake	Prof. Champa N. Ratnatunga, Prof. Faseeha Noordeen, Prof. IB. Gawarammana	MPhil	Evaluation of Anti SARS CoV 2 Antibody responses in close contact and post vaccination settings
Ms. (Dr.) H. M. F. J. Nazeefa	Prof. Champa N. Ratnatunga, Prof. SB. Adikari (Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya), Prof. M. Thirukumar (Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Eastern University of Sri Lanka)	MPhil	Comparative study on the effect of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the transplacental transfer of subclasses of IgG level to the newborn
Ms. W. K. H. Dheerasekara	Dr. Rohitha Muthugala (NHK/MRI), Prof. Veranja Liyanapathirana, Prof. Chandika Damesh Gamage	MPhil	Common viral and bacterial aetiologies of clinically suspected central nervous system infection in Central, North Central and Southern Sri Lanka
Ms. Pavani Senarathne	Prof. Chandika Damesh Gamage, Prof. Kumiko Yoshimatsu (Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)	MPhil	"Seroepidemiology of hantavirus infection in three different agro-ecological regions in Sri Lanka and validation of enhanced enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as a diagnostic tool of hantavirus infection"
Ms. M. O. Galappaththi	Prof. Faseeha Noordeen, Prof. JC Carr (School of Medicine, Flinders University, Australia)	PhD	Pre-clinical development of antiviral therapies for dengue viral infections in virto
Ms. Shiyamalee Arunasalam	Prof. Faseeha Noordeen, Prof. JC Carr (School of Medicine, Flinders University, Australia), Dr. Rohitha Muthugala (MRI, Colombo 08)	PhD	Spectrum of respiratory viruses infecting the COVID-19 suspected patients during the pandemic
Mr. Bushran N. Iqbal	Prof. Faseeha Noordeen, Dr. Samanthika Jagoda ( FoVM, UoP)	MPhil	Development of LAMP for the identification of SARS CoV-2 and molecular characterization of SARS CoV-2 circulated in Kandy areas during the pandemic
Ms. Tharushi Fernando	Prof. Faseeha Noordeen, Prof. J. S. M. Peiris (School of Public Health, UHK)	PhD	Evolution of coronaviruses in selected common environments in Sri Lanka
Ms. Fathima Siromiya Shamil Mafras	Prof. Veranja Liyanapathirana, Dr. H. D.W.S. Kudagammana, Dr. Vaithehi Rajeevan Francis (Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Care Sciences, Eastern University, Sri Lanka)	MPhil	Colonization with selected antimicrobial resistant bacteria in pregnant mothers admitted for delivery at tertiary care hospitals in the eastern province.