Miss Asmita Sen

Masters Student
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Monash University

asmita30.sen@gmail.com

Research Activities

Passaged influenza viruses and assessed their growth properties
Explored publicly available data in GISAID and FluSurver that describes influenza viruses and surveillance.
Analysed data using MS-Excel and GraphPad Prism.
Enhanced my knowledge about flu vaccines and influenza virus through academic research

Worked in research and development field of discovery biology. Worked on probiotics and heat killed probiotics.
Method validation of different probiotics
Primer design, PCR, Gel electrophoresis, DNA extraction etc Used MS excel to enter and analyse data 

Techniques/Expertise

Genomic DNA extraction 
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)  Gel electrophoresis
Hemagglutination assay
Serial dilution, plating & streaking
Passaging influenza viruses
 

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Dr Annette Fox

Research WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza SEE FULL PROFILE >

Prof Stephen Turner

Department of Microbiology Monash University SEE FULL PROFILE >

Dr Subir Sarker

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology La Trobe University SEE FULL PROFILE >

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