Amita Kumari
Affiliation and contact information
Senior Research Fellow (Ph.D. Research Scholar)
Chemical Technology Division
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology Palampur, 176061, HP INDIA
Contact No: +91-821*******
Email: *********@*****.***
Research interests
Natural Product Chemistry
Food Chemistry
Flavor Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Phytochemistry
Chromatography
Spectroscopy
Product Formulation
Research skills
1. Experience in the isolation of secondary metabolites from plants using chromatographic techniques 2. Experience in the interpretation of analytical data and secondary metabolites using 1H NMR, 13C- NMR, 2D NMR, Mass spectroscopy, UV, IR, LC-MS, HPLC, GC and GC-MS 3. Experience in the analytical methods development and validation of for the qualitative and quantitative analysis using analytical techniques viz, HPLC, UPLC, HPTLC and GC 4. Calibration of instruments are performed
5. Experience in the identification and quantification of amino acids, polyphenols, flavonoids and fatty acids using analytical techniques
6. Hands-on experience in NMR, UV, IR, LC-MS, SFE, GC, GC-MS, Flash chromatography, Microwave-CEM-Discover, Prep-HPLC, volatile aromatic compounds extractor, Centrifuge and Sonicator
7. Experience in the metabolomic analysis using UPLC-Q-TOF-MS and NMR techniques 8. Formulation of value-added products with health benefit properties 9. Experience in the extraction of natural colours from plants and improve their stability study 10. Experience in the extraction and isolation of volatile flavour compounds from food and beverages 11. Experience in the analysis of volatile flavour compounds from food and beverages using GC and GCMS techniques
12. Experience in Supercritical fluid extraction of volatile flavour compounds, polyphenols, flavonoids and classes of compounds
13. Independently plan, conduct and report on research experimentation Computer Proficiency
Operating Systems Software
Window Empower
Android TOP -Spin
Metlin
metabolites
LC- Solution
Chemdraw
Past
Professional experience
8/2016-Present PhD Research Scholar CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, HP, India 4/2019-Present Senior Research Fellow CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, HP, India 8/2018-4/2019 Project Assistant-II under the Project “CSIR Mission Project on Nutraceuticals and Nutritionals” CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, HP, India 2/2018-4/2018 Project Assistant-II under the project “Development, adoption of green technology for commercial production of tea catechins and its formulations” CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, HP, India
11/2013-3/2017 Project Assistant-II under the project “Plant-Microbe and Soil Interactions” CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, HP, India
Education
2016- Present PhD Chemical sciences, AcSIR, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur. India.
Thesis title: Phytochemical studies and value addition of tea (Camellia sinensis L. (O) Kuntze)
2011-2013 MSc (Chemistry) Panjab University, Chandigarh, India 2009-2010 Bachelor of Education (Life science and Physical science) Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India
2006-2009 BSc (Medical) Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India Honors and awards
2020 Best Poster Award. 26th Indian Society for Chemists and Biologists Conference (26th ISCBC-2020) jointly organized with 5th Nirma Institute of pharmacy international conference “Intergerating chemical biological and pharmaceutical sciences for Innovation of health care”. ISCB International Conference (26th ISCBC-2020) Held at Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India
(22- 24 Jan 2020).
2018 Senior Research Fellowship Award (HRDG-CSIR, New Delhi 110 012 India) Leadership experience
HPLC, UPLC, GC and UV Spectrophotometer in charge in our lab group
Mentored 3 graduate students, 7 Postgraduate students, 5 project assistants and one RA
Trained postgraduate students on advance analytical techniques and instruments
Hosted technical sessions at seminar series CSIR-IHBT, Palampur 2018 Publications
Accepted/Published
1. Kumari, A., Kumar, D., Gulati, A., Maurya, S.K., Mechanistic studies on polyphenol rich fractions of Kangra tea by HPTLC and NMR for their antioxidant activities (Under review). 2. Kumari, A., Gulati, A., Maurya, S., Comparative study of secondary metabolites of Camellia sinensis and Camellia japonica flowers growing in Kangra region of India (Under review). 3. Issa, M., Chandel, S., Singh, H.P., Batish, D.R., Kohli, R.K., Yadav, S.S. and Kumari, A., 2020. Appraisal of phytotoxic, cytotoxic and genotoxic potential of essential oil of a medicinal plant Vitex negundo. Industrial Crops and Products, 145, p.112083. 4. Sharma, R., Kumari, M., Kumari, A., Sharma, A., Gulati, A., Gupta, M. and Padwad, Y., 2019. Diet supplemented with phytochemical epigallocatechin gallate and probiotic Lactobacillus fermentum confers second generation synbiotic effects by modulating cellular immune responses and antioxidant capacity in aging mice. European journal of nutrition, 58(7), pp.2943-2957. 5. Kumar, R., Sharma, A., Kumari, A., Gulati, A., Padwad, Y. and Sharma, R., 2019. Epigallocatechin gallate suppresses premature senescence of preadipocytes by inhibition of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway and induces senescent cell death by regulation of Bax/Bcl-2 pathway. Biogerontology, 20(2), pp.171-189.
6. Sharma, P., Kumari, A., Gulati, A., Krishnamurthy, S. and Hemalatha, S., 2019. Chrysin isolated from Pyrus pashia fruit ameliorates convulsions in experimental animals. Nutritional neuroscience, 22(8), pp.569-577.
7. Sharma, R., Sharma, A., Kumari, A., Kulurkar, P.M., Raj, R., Gulati, A. and Padwad, Y.S., 2017. Consumption of green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate enhances systemic immune response, antioxidative capacity and HPA axis functions in aged male swiss albino mice. Biogerontology, 18(3), pp.367-382.
8. Rattan, R., Kumari, A., Gautam, V., Fozdar, B.I., Sharma, U. and Kumar, D., 2016. Preliminary phytochemical screening, antioxidant and antifungal activity of Lepidagathis cuspidate. Int J Drug Dev & Res, 8(1), pp.001-003.
Poster’s presentation/conferences attended references
Kumari Amita, Maurya Sushil Kumar*, Gulati Ashu*. Secondary metabolite profile of two species of Camellia flowers growing in Kangra region of India and their comparative study. 26th Indian Society for Chemist and Biologist Conference (26th ISCBC-2020) jointly organized with 5th Nirma Institute of pharmacy international conference “Intergerating chemical biological and pharmaceutical sciences for innovation of health care”. ISCB International conference (26th ISCBC-2020) Held at Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India (22-24 Jan 2020).
Kumari Amita, Gulati Ashu*. Extraction, isolation and purification of black tea polyphenols for nutracutical application. 6th International Biennial Conference on New Developments in Drug Discovery from Natural Products and Traditional Medicines (DDNPTM, 2018) to be held at NIPER, SAS Nagar, Punjab, India (15-17 Nov. 2018).
HPLC seminar on Amino acids organized by Waters India pvt. Ltd. At CCSK-HPKV Palampur, March, 2017.
References:
Dr. Sushil Kumar Maurya
Principal Scientist
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan
Bioresource and Technology
Post Box No. 6, Palampur
(H.P.)-176 061, India
Mob. +91-862*******
E-mail:********@****.***.**
Dr. Ashu Gulati
Emeritus Scientist
Mob. +91-980*******
E-mail:
****.******@*****.***
Dr. Aparna Maitra Pati
Senior Principal Scientist
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan
Bioresource and Technology
Post Box No. 6, Palampur
(H.P.)-176 061, India
Mob. +91-981*******
E-mail: ******@****.***.**
Personal Details:
Date of Birth 25 December 1988
Gender & Marital status Female, single
Nationality Indian
Language Hindi, English and Punjabi
Father Name Mr. Sawaroop Chand Sharma
Address V.P.O. Ludret, Teh Dehra, Distt
Kangra, H. P. Pin-176 027, India
Declaration:
I hereby declare that all the information mentioned above is true to the best of my knowledge. Date: 07th April 2021
Place: Palampur, India Amita Kumari