Denaturing high performance liquid chromatography

Dr. K.Lily Therese, Reader in Microbiology, Sankara Nethralaya was offered a six Fellowship by Alcon laboratories, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. The training was on Application of Denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (Dhplc) followed by  DNA sequencing technique for rapid species level detection of bacterial and fungal genomes directly from culture negative intraocular fluids of  endophthalmitis patients  and Ribotyping  technique for identifying the bacterial isolates to species and strain level.  She was also honoured with a memento in recognition of the contributions to Ophthalmic Research.

The Photograph was taken during the farewell party attended by Dr. Gerald Cagle, (Senior Vice president R&D) Dr. Barry Schlech,( Vice President, Pharmaceutical Technology & Microbiology and Dr. David Stroman (Director Anti infective laboratory) and all the Microbiology Staff at the Alcon Research Laboratory   FortWorth, Texas, USA. The fellowship offered by Alcon Laboratories, Inc. has further strengthened the collaborative research programmes of Vision Research Foundation.