Miss Shanmathi Parameswaran

Research Assistant
School of health and biomedical sciences
RMIT University

shanushanmathii@gmail.com

Research Activities

My main responsibilities are to using immunohistochemistry/fluorescence and PCR techniques on variety of tissues like HIV-infected brain, liver and lymph node to assess viral persistence and inflammatory phenotypes in these tissues

Techniques/Expertise

PCR - triple nested PCR, qPCR
Immunohistochemistry
In situ hybridisation  - DNA scope and RNA scope
Laser capture microscopy 
Microtomy
Small animal handling - mouse
general mouse surgery and harvesting different tissues