Part 2 of episode 2 with Dr. Gayan Sanjeewa. In part 2 we discussed abut Molecular Biology research. (See the chapters of the discussion below).
අණුක ජිව විද්‍යාත්මක පර්යේශණ පිළිබඳ ආචාර්ය ගයාන් සංජීව මහතා සමඟ කල සාකච්ඡාව
Dr. Gayan Sanjeewa is a senior scientist in a leading pharmaceutical company in the USA. He pursued his Post Doctoral research in Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
He completed his P.hD in Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, USA
He obtained his bachelors in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
To read his publications: scholar.google.com/citations?...
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“All discussions are based on my personal opinion and I am not representing any of my employers in any way during this interview” -Dr. Gayan Sanjeewa
00.00: intro
00:28 Which type of research, a molecular biologist would normally do
01:15 Who is a Thalassemia Vector?
06:46 What did you do for your undergraduate research?
07:21 What is the relationship between genes and diseases?
13:11 What are DNA, RNA and proteins?
17:18 Central Dogma of life
17:40 RNA Secondary Structures
22:23 Ph.D. Research
23:05 Why did you start research on Bacteria?
24:46 Riboswitches and RNA world hypothesis
28:40 Why did you join with the industry after your postdoc?
31:29 Is it necessary to have a Ph.D. to join with the industry?
33:31 What is Gene Therapy?
36:22 What is your best achievement in life?
අණුක ජීව විද්‍යාඥයෙක් කරන්නේ මොන වගේ පරීක්ෂණ ද?
කවුද මේ තැලසීමීයා වාහකයෙක් කියන්නේ?
ඔබ කුමක්ද ඔබේ undergraduate research එකෙන් සිදු කලේ?
ජාන සහ රෝග අතර සම්බන්ධය කුමක්ද?
DNA, RNA සහ ප්‍රෝටීන යනු මොනවාද?
Central Dogma of life
RNA Secondary Structures
PhD Research
ඇයි ඔබ බැක්ටීරියා පිළිබඳ පර්යේශණ කිරීම ආරම්භ කලේ?
Riboswitches සහ RNA world hypothesis
උසස් අධ්‍යාපනය නිම කිරීමෙන් පසුව ඇයි ඔබ රැකියාවකට යොමු වෙන්නේ?
මේ ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ රැකියාවක් කරන්න PhD එකක් ඕනෙමද?
Gene Therapy කියන්නේ මොකද්ද?
ඔබ ජීවිතයේ ලබා ගත් හොඳම ජයග්‍රහණය මොකද්ද?
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