Profesisonal Recognition

Talks Invited

Served as resource person and delivered a talk in “Workshop on Basics of Flow Cytometry Workshop” organized by Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine, AIIMS Bhopal on 29th Mar 2023.
Served as resource person and delivered two lectures in “Hands-on basic Flow Cytometry Workshop to advance research in Infectious Diseases” organized by Department of Microbiology, AIIMS Bhopal on 16-17 Mar 2023.

Titled: Overview of multicolor panel design and how to combine multiple parameters in one experiment” and Compensation in multicolour assays: Significance of compensation and how to perform it.

Delivered an invited talk on ‘Functional Foods in Wellness and disease prevention’ in National webinar on “Nutraceuticals and Dietary Supplements: Applications in Health Improvement and Disease Management” organized by ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE), Bhopal on March 8, 2022.
Delivered a Keynote address on “Role of Sphingolipids in Cancer” in the Medical and Health Science Research Committee of the XLIV Indian Social Science Congress, March 15-19, 2021, Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha, M.P
Delivered a guest lecture (virtual) “Identification of novel prognostic cancer biomarkers using computational tools” In: SERB supported Workshop on “Innovations in Material Science for Biomedical Applications” Organized by CSIR-AMPRI, Bhopal on 24-25 Feb 2021.
Delivered a guest lecture (online) Applications of laboratory animals in biomedical research. In: Refresher Course in Life Sciences, Sep 10, 2020 organized by UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Ranchi University.
Delivered a guest lecture (online) Pathogenesis of SARS-Cov2. In: Refresher Course In Life Sciences, Sep 08 2020 organized by UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Ranchi University.
Delivered a webinar Pathogenesis of SARS-Cov2. In: Webinar in the series of Advances in Biotechnology for Health, Food and Nutrition to encounter COVID-19, May 23, 2020 organized by AKS University, Satna.
Delivered an invited talk on Potential role of Lipid Phosphate Phosphatase 3 in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma at Presented at 39th Annual Convention of Indian Association for Cancer Research, Trivandrum held on Feb 5-7, 2020.
Delivered an invited talk on S1P signaling pathway: A novel therapeutic target for Oral Cancer: In

International Conference on Advances and Innovations in Biotechnology for Sustainable Development 5-7 April, 2019 at AKS University, Satna (MP) India

Delivered an invited talk on Sphingosine-1-Phosphate metabolic pathway is altered in Oral Carcinogenesis at Presented at 38th Annual Convention of Indian Association for Cancer Research, Chandigarh held on March 1-3, 2019.
Delivered an invited talk on Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Signaling in Colon and Oral Cancer in International Symposium on Molecular Medicine was held at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow during 14th-16th Dec 2018.
Delivered an invited talk on Basics of Radiation Biology and application of
Radiopharmaceuticals in Diagnostics in National Seminar on “Radiopharmaceuticals in Healthcare System: Safety and Regulatory Aspects” held on 24th Nov 2018 in School of Pharmacy & Research, People’s University, Bhopal (M.P)
Delivered an invited talk on Bioavailability and potential uses of micronutrients in food system in 21 days Training programme on “Synergistic approaches for bioprocessing of foods and by-products for nutritional and industrial use” during 31 Aug 2018 to 20 Sep 2018 organized by IACR-CIAE, Bhopal.
Kumar A. Delivered two guest lectures on ‘Signal Transduction: Mechanism of Hormone Actions at Department of Biotechnology, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal on May 3-4, 2017.
Kumar A. Delivered a guest lecture on “Advances in genotyping and mutation detection: Era of personalized Medicine at National Workshop on Recent Advances in Genomics and Bioinformatics for Genome Analysis held at AKS University, Satna on Mar 20-26, 2017
Kumar A, Delivered an invited lecture on “Applications of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical research’ at National Seminar on Contemporary Challenges in the implementation of CPCSEA guidelines’ held at SN Medical College Agra on 4th Mar 2017.
Kumar A, Vishwakarma S, Agarwal R. Delivered an invited lecture on “Altered expression of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate metabolizing enzymes in oral cancer correlate with clinicopathological attributes at 43rd National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBICON), held at Mangalore on 13th-15th Dec 2016.
Kumar A and Saba J. Delivered a guest lecture on Sphingosine-1-Phosphate (S1P) lyase in Immunity and Cancer at 1st International Conference on Health Implications of Biotechnology, organized by Central University of South Bihar, Patna on 12th-14th Feb 2016.
Kumar A, Delivered a guest lecture on ‘A primer on manuscript writing and ethics in research’ during Conference on ‘Women Empowerment, Leadership and Career Development in Science and Technology” organized by MP Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal on July 17th 2015.
Kumar A, Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Comet Assay’ during Coursework for PhD students of Department of Biotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal on 27th April, 2015. (Invited as Guest speaker).
Kumar A. Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Basics of Real-Time PCR ’ during Hands on workshop on ‘All about PCR’ Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine and Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS Bhopal on 9th May, 2015.
Kumar A, Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Emerging Concepts in genotyping’ during pre-workshop on entitled ” DNA Sequencing and Genotyping ” organized by MP Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal on Feb 25th 2015.
Kumar A. Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Research Design for Experimental Studies ’ during short course on Research Methods in Medical Sciences’ organized by Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal on 6th Nov, 2014. (Invited as Guest speaker).
Kumar A, Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Mass Spectrometry’ during Coursework for PhD students of Department of Biotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal on 5th May, 2015. (Invited as Guest speaker).
Kumar A, Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Comet Assay’ during Coursework for PhD students of Department of Biotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal on 27th April, 2015. (Invited as Guest speaker).
Kumar A, Delivered a guest lecture on ‘How do cells communicate?’ during Hands-on training in Bioinformatics on ‘Bioinformatics and Structural Bioinformatics’ organized by Department of Biotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal on 19th Sep, 2014. (Invited as Guest speaker).
Kumar A, Delivered a talk on ‘Applications of Knockout Mice: S1P lyase as a model ’ at All India Seminar on “Recent Advances in Biotechnology and Human Health Care organized by The Institution of Engineers, MPSC Bhopal held on Mar 29th-30th, 2014. (Invited as Guest speaker and Chairperson of the Session).
Kumar A, Delivered a talk on ‘Bioactive compounds in Food Systems’ at winter school on “Advances Bioprocessing systems for development of functional foods and value additions to byproducts organized by Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal (ICAR) on Dec 7th, 2013. (Invited as Guest speaker and Resource person).
Kumar A, Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Molecular signaling in cell systems with Bioinformatics relevance’ during Hands-on training in Bioinformatics on ‘Bioinformatics and Structural Bioinformatics’ organized by Department of Biotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal on 23rd Oct, 2013. (Invited as Guest speaker).
Kumar A. Delivered a talk on ‘Free Radicals in Human Health and Disease’ at CME on Kayachikitsa organized by Pt. Khushilal Sharma Govt. Autonomous Ayurveda College, Bhopal on Sept 6th, 2013. (Invited as Guest speaker and Resource person).
Kumar A, S1P Lyase in Lymphocyte trafficking and Colon Cancer. Presented in Conference on Frontiers in Translational OncoImmunology organized by Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal on Feb 18th, 2013.
Kumar A, Bandhuvula P, Pandurangan AK, Meng Zhang, Henrik Fyrst and Saba JD. Endothelial S1P lyase is required for efficient lymphocyte trafficking. Presented in 6th Children Hospital Oakland Research Institute Symposium held on March 30, 2012.
Kumar A, Oskouian B, Saba JD. S1P Lyase promotes mitotic cell death and is a target for radioprotection. Presented at 2nd CHORI/University of California at Berkeley T32 Seminar on June 04, 2010 at Children Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA.
Kumar A, Oskouian B, Saba JD. S1P Lyase promotes mitotic catastrophe and is a target for radioprotection. Presented at UC Berkeley Tumor Biology Seminar Series on October 12, 2009 at University of California at Berkeley, CA.
Kumar A, Sinha RA, Tiwari M, Pal L, Shrivastava A, Godbole MM. Hypothyroidism-enhanced apoptosis in developing rat cerebral cortex involves oxidative stress and p75 mediated pathways. Presented at 13th International Thyroid Congress held at Buenos Aires, Argentina 30th October to 4th November 2005.
Sinha RA, Kumar A, Tiwari M, Shrivastava A and Godbole MM. Pro-Nerve Growth Factor provide apoptotic stimuli during rat cerebellar development under hypothyroidism through p75NTR-Sortilin death signaling. Presented at 13th International Thyroid Congress held at Buenos Aires, Argentina 30th October to 4th November 2005.

Abstracts Published in Conference Proceedings

Thilakan J, Kumar A, Khadia R and Arya N. In-situ Biomineralized 3D Silk Fibroin Based Co-culture Model to Study BCA Metastasis. In: Proceedings of ACBICON 2022. Ind J Clin Biochem (2023): S56; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12291-022-01106-z
Kumari P, Nema R, Kumar A. In silico identification of long non-coding RNAs as prognostic biomarkers for invasive breast cancer. Presented in 5th International School of Oncology held at AIIMS Bhopal 1-5th Aug, 2022 (Ms Pooja Received 1st Prize for the Best Podium Presentation).
Begum R, Yadav, A, Siddique A, Kumar, A, Kanwar J, Chowdhary R. Comparative analysis of chemotherapeutic drugs using Temozolomide, Cisplatin and BITC for reverse regulation of oncogenic miRNA in glioblastoma treatment. Proceedings of 47th National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBICON), held at Kolkata on 9th-11th Dec 2021. Ind J Clin Biochem 36 (Suppl 1), 1–169 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12291-021-01019-3 Roji Begum received Dr P Usha Sharma Best poster award in genomic proteomic sciences- Clinical application.
Yadav, A, Siddique A, Begum R, Kumar A, Biswas D, Kanwar J, Chowdhary R. Molecular characterization and identification of dengue virus in febrile patients referring at AIIMS Bhopal hospital in central India. Proceedings of 47th National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBICON), held at Kolkata on 9th-11th Dec 2021. Ind J Clin Biochem 36 (Suppl 1), 1–169 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12291-021-01019-3 The Student (Ashish Yadav) received the MGIMS Award for best paper in the field of tropical diseases.
Vishwakarma V, Joshi D, Khare S, Gothalwal R and Kumar A. Development of tongue squamous cell carcinoma involves downregulation of Lipid phosphate phosphatase 3. Proceedings of 47th National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBICON), held at Kolkata on 9th-11th Dec 2022. Ind J Clin Biochem 36 (Suppl 1), 1–169 (2021).
Singh H, Khurana A, Kumar A, Saluja R. Elucidating the potential role of Interleukin-33, sST2, and IgE in asthmatic patients. Proceedings of 47th National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBICON), held at Kolkata on 9th-11th Dec 2021. Ind J Clin Biochem 36 (Suppl 1), 1–169 (2021).
Kulkarni P, Das S, Kumar A and Arya N. Development of 3-D spheroid model-based on breast and cervical cancer for drug screening application. Presented at 41st Annual Conference of Indian Association for Cancer Research, NOIDA, held on Feb 2-5, 2022.
Patel P. Nema R and Kumar A. Prognostic role of Receptor tyrosine kinase like orphan receptors in Gastric Cancer. Presented at XLIV Indian Social Science Congress held at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, March 15-19, 2021,Vidisha, MP.
Nema R and Kumar A. Expression of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Phosphatase 1 correlates with better prognosis and tumor-infiltrating immune cells in triple-negative breast cancer patients. Presented at XLIV Indian Social Science Congress held at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, March 15-19, 2021,Vidisha, MP.
Pandey R, Nema R, Kumar A. Ceramide metabolizing enzymes associate with the prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer: an in-silico analysis. Presented at XLIV Indian Social Science Congress held at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, March 15-19, 2021,Vidisha, MP.
Kumar A, Nema R and Shrivastava A. Prognostic role of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Signaling Genes in Lung Cancer: TCGA analysis. Presented at XLIV Indian Social Science Congress held at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, March 15-19, 2021,Vidisha, MP.
Singh H., Khurana A., Kumar A., Saluja R., Deciphering the potential role of Interleukin-33 in asthmatic patients, XLIV Indian Social Science Congress held at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, March 15-19, 2021,Vidisha, MP.
Vishwakarma S, Nema R, Pandey R, Patel P, Singh R, Singh AP, Kumar A, Association of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) with the susceptibility to Oral Cancer: 44th Indian Social Science Congress, ISSC 2021 held on 15-17th March 2021 at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha, India
Pandey R, Vishwakarma S, Nema R, Singh R, Singh AP, Kumar A. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in cytokine genes associated with the risk for Oral Cancer. presented in the International Conference on Advances and Innovations in Biotechnology for Sustainable Development 5-7 April, 2019 at AKS University, Satna (MP) India.
Vishwakarma S, Nema R, Singh R, Singh AP, Pandey R, Kumar A. TNF-a (-308), IL-12A (3’UTR) and IL-6 (-572) Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) decrease the risk for Oral Cancer. Published in Conference Proceedings of ACBICON 2018 held at Goa, India on 24-27 Oct 2018.
Kumar A, Vishwakarma S, Joshi D, Singh R, Kapoor N, Goel SK, Singhal R. Differential expression of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate metabolizing enzymes in oral squamous cell carcinoma. ESMO Open : 2018;3 (Suppl 2), A123
Vishwakarma S, Kumar, A; Agarwal, R; Joshi, D. Aberrant Expression of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Metabolizing Enzymes And Long Non-Coding RNAs In Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients. Journal of Cancer Research & Therapeutics . 2017 Vol. 13, Issue 7 (supplement) pS287-S287. 1/4p (Abstract Id: YUGP4231).
Vishwakarma S, Kumar A, Agarwal R. Gene expression of Sphingosine-1- Phosphate metabolizing enzymes in oral cancer patients and their correlation with clinicopathological features. Presented at 36th Annual Conference of Indian Association for Cancer Research, Trichur, KA held on Feb 9-11, 2017.
Vishwakarma S, Kumar A, Agarwal R, Singh R, Expression of Sphingosine-1 Phosphate metabolizing enzymes and long non-coding RNAs in oral squamous cell carcinoma: 37th ICON organized held on 15-17th Sept.2017 at Hotel Pride Plaza, Aerocity New Delhi, India
Kumar A, Vishwakarma S, Agarwal R. Altered expression of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate metabolizing enzymes in oral cancer correlate with clinicopathological attributes. Proceedings of 43rd National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBICON), held at Mangalore on 13th-15th Dec 2016.
Mohan S, Vishwakarma S, Agrawal R, Panday RK, Kumar A. Sphingosine kinase 2 is down-regulated in tumor tissue of head and neck cancer patients. Proceedings of ‘International Conference on Translational Medicine in 21st Centuary. Stem Cell Transplantation Current Status’ organized by Barkatullah University, Bhopal held on 11th to 14th April 2015.
Zamora-Pineda J, Kumar A, Bandhuvula P, Eltanawy A, Zhang M, and Saba JD. SPL in dendritic cells promotes T lymphocyte egress from thymus*. Proceedings of FASEB Conference on ‘Phospholipid Cell Signaling and Metabolism in Inflammation and Cancer’ held on June 1-6, 2014 at Niagra Falls, NY USA. *Won best poster award
Saba JD, Kumar A, Oskouian B, Fyrst H, Zhang M. S1P lyase regulates DNA damage responses in vitro and in vivo. The FASEB Journal; 2011(25): 197.1
Kumar A, Oskouian B, Saba JD. S1P lyase enhances apoptosis in response to genotoxic drug and radiation by releasing the cells from G2/M arrest. Presented at Keystone symposium, Complex Lipids in Biology: Signaling, Compartmentalization and Disease at Olympic Valley, CA, April 22 – April 27, 2009.
Kumar A, Oskouian B, Saba JD. Sphingosine-1-Phosphate lyase enhances radiation-induced apoptosis by releasing the cells from G2/M arrest. Am. Soc. Cell Biology Meeting Bulletin. 48th Annual Meeting of American Society for Cell Biology Annual meeting at San Francisco, Dec 13-17, 2008.
Bandhuvula P, Fyrst H, Kumar A, F Paris, EA Blakely, JD Saba. Novel Sphingolipid Biomarkers of Gut Injury Induced by Radiation. Partial-Body Radiation Diagnostic Biomarkers and Medical Management of Radiation Injury Workshop held on May 5-May 6 2008, at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Res Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Sinha RA, Kumar A, Pathak A, Tiwari M, Shrivastava A, Godbole MM. Involvement of p75NTR during increased neonatal neuronal cell death under thyroid hormone deficiency in rats. Presented at 3rd International Conference held on December 13-15 2006 at National Brain research Centre, Gurgaon, India
Rastogi L, Sinha RA, Pathak A, Kumar A, Pal L, Godbole MM. Expression of nitric oxide synthase and vascular endothelial growth factor in ischemia-reperfusion: relationship to euthyroid and hypothyroid rats. Presented at 3rd International Conference: held on December13-15 2006 at National Brain research Centre, Gurgaon, India
Kumar A, Sinha RA, Tiwari M, Pal L, Shrivastava A, Godbole MM Hypothyroidism-enhanced apoptosis in developing rat cerebral cortex involves oxidative stress and p75 mediated pathways. Presented at XIX All India Cell Biology Conference & Symposium on Gene to Genome: Environment and Chemical Interaction, organized at Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India held on Jan 18-20, 2006
Kumar A, Sinha RA, Tiwari M, Pal L, Shrivastava A, Godbole MM. Hypothyroidism-enhanced apoptosis in developing rat cerebral cortex involves oxidative stress and p75 mediated pathways. Published in Thyroid. 2005;15 Suppl 1:S1-S49. Abstracts from the 13th International Thyroid Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 30-November 4, 2005.
Sinha RA, Kumar A, Tiwari M, Shrivastava A and Godbole MM. Pro-Nerve Growth Factor provide apoptotic stimuli during rat cerebellar development under hypothyroidism through p75NTR-Sortilin death signaling. Published in Thyroid. 2005;15 Suppl 1:S1-S49. Abstracts from the 13th International Thyroid Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 30-November 4, 2005.
Godbole MM, Tiwari MM, Kumar A, Sinha RA, Balapure AK, Sharma R, Shahashrabudhhe AK, Shrivastava A, Babu S. Bajpai VK. Mechanism of 4-Hydroxy Phenyl Retinamide Induced Apoptosis in Glioblastoma cell lines. Presented at 75th Annual Meeting of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York held on 1st-6th June 2005.
Kumar A, Sinha AK, Shrivastava A, Tiwari M, Pal L & Godbole MM. Hypothyroidism augments apoptosis in developing rat cerebral cortex. Presented at 34th National conference of Endocrine Society of India held on 26-28 November 2004 at Guwahati, India.
Shrivastava A, Kumar A, Pal L, Trivedi P, Tiwari M, Sinha RA, & Godbole MM. Recombinant human sodium/iodide symporter (hNIS) synthesis, development of specific antibody and evidence of hNIS alternate spliced variant in thyroid and breast tumors. Presented at 34th National conference of Endocrine Society of India held on 26-28 November 2004 at Guwahati, India.
Kumar A, Tiwari M, Pal L, Shrivastava A and Godbole MM. Hypothyroidism augments apoptosis in developing rat cerebral cortex independent of mitochondrial-mediated pathway. Presented at International Symposium: Building the brain held on 15-17 December 2003 at National Brain research Centre, Gurgaon, India.
Tiwari M, Kumar A, Balapure AK, Sharma R, Shrivastava A and Godbole MM. 4-hydroxy phenyl retinamide induces apoptosis in highly malignant glioma cell lines as compared with natural retinoids. Presented at International Symposium: Building the brain held on 15-17 December 2003 at National Brain research Centre, Gurgaon, India.
Godbole MM, Singh R, Upadhyay G, Kumar A and Tiwari M. Hypothyroidism alters mitochondrial morphology and induces release of apoptogenic proteins during developing rat cerebellum. Presented at conference on Thyroid Hormone and Brain Development held on 22-25 December 2003 at NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Tiwari M, Balapure A, Sharma R, Kumar A, Godbole MM. Reactive oxygen species and membrane permeability transition are involved in 4-HPR induced apoptosis in glioblastoma multiforme derived cell lines. Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research 2004 (1), 1194
Singh R, Upadhyay G, Kapoor A, Kumar S, Kumar A, Tiwari M and Godbole MM. Hyperthyroidism induces apoptosis in the adult cerebral cortex: Direct action of T3 on mitochondria. Presented at 74th Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association held on October 9-13, 2002 at Los Angeles, CA.