Two AU alumnae bag ZSI?s gold medal
TWO YOUNG women? both Allahabad University (AU) alumnae? have made the city and their alma mater proud by bagging gold medals of the Zoological Society of India (ZSI) at the recently held 17th National Congress of Zoology.
TWO YOUNG women— both Allahabad University (AU) alumnae— have made the city and their alma mater proud by bagging gold medals of the Zoological Society of India (ZSI) at the recently held 17th National Congress of Zoology.
The prestigious meet was held at Baramati near Pune and was attended by renowned zoologists and scientists from all over the country.
The gold medal of Zoological Society of India for the best research paper (oral presentation) was conferred on Neeshma Jaiswal, who presented her work on establishing phylogenetic lineage of cestode parasites from diseased fishes examined at Central West Coast of India, Goa and Gangetic plains at Allahabad during the past 5 years.
She took up the daunting task of analysis of morphometric attributes of taxonomic value to discuss systematics of such parasites that evolved for the first time in fish in marine waters but their characters of cephalic armature and reproductive organs were seen over the years in the common hook worm parasite (ancylostoma duodenale) of human beings.
In the recent years, these characters who appeared in round worms of fish directly to human beings, but were missing in all the amphibian and reptilian groups falling in between. The phenomenon of the best host switching was reported by her for the first time in contradiction to the American hypothesis.
Neeshma has completed her research for D Phil under Prof Sandeep K Malhotra in Parasitology Laboratory, University of Allahabad, and has had a distinguished career winning several awards in working mode and quiz competitions of science society in 2001, 2003 and 2004. The first prize Biodiversity workshop, 2003 and Scampi Training Workshop, 2004 were also conferred on her.
She has participated in five international symposia and workshops. Neeshma has four full length research papers and 15 abstracts to her credit.
Another gold medal of Zoological Society of India under the best poster presentation category was won by Anshu Malhotra at the same venue. The focal theme of the prize-winning poster dealt with effect of fluoride on fluctuating interionic conditions of riverine and marine waters in Arabian sea and the Ganga and the Yamuna. The remarkable discovery encompassed maximum bacterial population growth at 1.0 ppm which is the threshold limit of fluoride in water for fish to survive. Thus, it is a warning for fish culturists that the detrimental level of fluoride is also instrumental in augmented bacterial growth, which if pathogenic can contribute to diseased fish as well as fish kill. Such mysteries can easily be detected by laser-induced fluorescence applications which were conducted in association of Prof Ram Gopal at the Department of Physics in the university.
Anshu won two gold medals last year at National Congress of Parasitology at Dibrugarh (Assam). She made a presentation at Max Planck Institute, Germany earlier this year and has two international and six research papers published in national scientific journals of repute.
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