Department of Biotechnology

Dr. Divya Joseph Pereira

Assistant Professor

  • Academic Experience:

    11 years, Research Experience: 7 years

  • Qualification:

    M.Sc., B.Ed., Ph.D

  • Contact:

    Email: divyajosephpereira@jyotinivas.org

Dr. Divya Joseph Pereira

Assistant Professor

# Degree Subject University, place ,year
1 Ph.D Biotechnology PES University 2022
2 M.Sc Biotechnology Mount carmel College, Bangalore University 2008 - 10.
3 B.Ed Biotechnology Bangalore University, 2012.
5 B.Sc Biotech, Biochem, Genetics JNC, Bangalore University, 2005 - 2008.

• Dominic, S & Pereira, D. J. (2015). “Evaluation of Invitro cytotoxic effects of Symplocos Cochinchinensis against HeLa and MCF7 cell lines . Academic Studies National Journal of Jyoti Research Academy , Vol 9 (2), 52-55.
• Thriveni ,V and Pereira , D.J.(2016). “Invitro phytochemical and antimicrobial analysis for leaf extracts of various Clerodendrum species . Scientia : A student journal , vol 6.

• Name of the Conference/Seminar: UGC – Sponsored Refresher course in women studies (Multidisciplinary) during the 02 to 22 of December 2016. Name of the Organizer: UGC-human Resource Development Centre, University of Kerala, Kariavattom , Trivandrum.Topic: “Women stress and health – protective effective of Different Dietary oils against CCL4 induced Lipid peroxidation “ and procured -“ A” grade for the presentation.

I. Name of the Conference: A National symposium on Breakthrough in Molecular Diagnostics. Name of the Institution: Oxford Educational Institutions, Bangalore Date & Year: 22nd – 23rd March, 2007.
II. Name of the Conference: Confluence 2010 Name of the Institution: Indian Academy College Date & Year: 10th April 2010
III. Name of the Seminar: Catechesis Name of the Institution: National Biblical Catechetical & Liturgical Centre Date & Year: 11th & 18th May, 2011
IV. Name of the Workshop: Science Academics on “Plant Biotechnology – A way to future”. Name of the Institution: Christ University Date & Year: 27th and 28th September, 2011
V. Name of the Conference : Science for Mankind Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous Date & Year: 2nd – 3rd February, 2012
VI. Name of the Conference: National conference on “Psychological Perspectives on Parenting in the Digitalised Age”. Name of the Institution : Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth ,Pune Date & year – 27th ,28th and 29th September, 2013.
VII. Name of the Conference – 15th All India Catholic Psychologists Conference on “Psychological Perspectives on Aging” Name of the Institution: Alphonsian Pastoral Institute, Pala Date & Year: 26th – 28th September, 2014.
VIII. Name of the Conference: UGC-Sponsored state Level Conference on “Euthanasia” Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous and Archdiocesan Communications Centre Date & Year: 23rd January, 2015.
IX. Name of the Conference – UGC- Sponsored Workshop on Staff Training and enhancement Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous Date & Year: 9th June 2015.
X. Name of the Refresher Course – Women studies (Multidisciplinary) Name of the Institution: University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Trivandrum Date & Year: 2-12-2016 to 22-12-2016.
XI. Name of the Symposium – Project Green Rescue Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous Date & Year: 18th and 19th 2016.
XII. Name of the Workshop-Draft National Policy on Education –(NPE)-2016 : prospects and Aspirations Name of the Institution: - Conference of Catholic Colleges of Karnataka and Christ University Date & Year: 8th August, 2016
XIII. Name of the Conference – “Bioessence”- Integrated Health care Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous Date & Year: 11th &12th January, 2017
XIV. Name of the Conference – International conference on “Women Science, Research and Innovation” Name of the Institution: Christ University Date & Year: 20th – 21th June, 2017.
XV. Name of the Conference – 18th National Conference of Catholic Psychologists of India – “Positive Psychology – A Pathway to Well-being Name of the Institution: Shanthi Kiran, Bajjodi , Mangaluru Date & Year: 22nd - 24th September, 2017
XVI. Name of the Conference: National Level UGC sponsored Conference on “Mind Body Matters” organized by the Departments of Life Sciences & Psychology. Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore Date & Year: 1st & 2nd of February 2018
XVII. Name of the Conference: 23rd XXIII Triennial conference Name of the Institution: Don Bosco institute, Guwahati, Assam Date & Year: September 13-15 ,2019
XVIII. Name of the Conference: A psychological introspection in to the current Socio- cultural – Religious Scenario Name of the Institution: Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Date & Year: 20th ,21 and 22nd September, 2019.
XIX. Name of the Conference: 1st International Conference on Life , Chemical , and health sciences (ICLCHS) Name of the Institution : Ramaiah college of arts , Science , and commerce in collaboration with Karnataka Science and Technology Academy (KSTA) , Department of IT , BT and Science and technology , Gov of Karnataka . Date & Year: 24 – 26th October, 2019.
XX. Name of the Conference: 107th Indian Science Congress Name of the Institution: University of Agricultural sciences Date & Year: 03- 07th January, 2020.
XXI. Name of the Refresher Course for College Faculty in Newer trends in Immunology Name of the Institution: dept of Microbiology, St Joseph’s College in collaboration with DpN lab , Indian Institute of science Bengaluru Date & Year: 25th January, 2020.

1. Name of the Conference: Chemistry for Society and Industry (National Level) Name of the Institution: Chemistry Department of JNC with the department studies in chemistry Bangalore University and Unilever R&D Bangalore . Date & Year: 5th March 2011
2. Name of the Conference: 12th National Conference of Catholic Psychologists Name of the Institution: CCPI in association with Jyoti Nivas College Date & Year: 16th to 18th September 2011
3. Name of the Conference: Science for Mankind Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous Date & Year: 2nd – 3rd February 2012
4.Name of the Conference: UGC-Sponsored state Level Conference on “Euthanasia” Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous and Archdiocesan Communications Centre -Date & Year: 23rd January, 2015
5. Name of the Symposium – Project Green Rescue Name of the Institution: - Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous Date & Year: 18th and 19th 2016.
6.Name of the Conference: Organizing committee member for a UGC sponsored National level conference on ‘Bioessence – Integrated Healthcare’ Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore.Date & Year: January 2017
7. Name of the Conference: Organizing committee member (Coordinator – inaugural committee) for a UGC sponsored National level conference on ‘Mind Body Matters’ Name of the Institution: Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore Date & Year: 1st & 2nd of February 2018.
8.Name of the Conference: 23rd XXIII Triennial conference Name of the Institution : Don Bosco institute, Guwahati , Assam Date & Year: September 13-15 ,2019
9.Name of the workshop - Hands on training on Advanced Microbiology Name of the organization – Biomerurex Pvt. Limited Year – August 2018

1. Member, BOS meeting-2012- November 2018, Department of Biotechnology, Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore.
2. Member of the board of examinations at Mount Carmel College Autonomous
3. Examiner for practical examination at various institutions like Dayananda Sagar University, NMKRV College Autonomous, St Joseph’s College Autonomous.

1. Organizing committee member for a National level Bio symposium on ‘Project Green Rescue’ in February, 2016 at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore.
2. Organizing committee member for a UGC sponsored National level conference on ‘Bio essence – Integrated Healthcare’ in January, 2017 at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore.
3. Organizing committee member (Coordinator –inaugural committee) for a UGC sponsored National level conference on ‘Mind Body Matters ‘held in January, 2018 at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore.
4. Co-coordinator for Clinical Research short term course at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore in collaboration with Leads clinical Research Private Limited from 2013to present.
5. Organizing committee member of CCPI and Euthanasia conference – Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous during August 2011 and 2015 respectively.
6. Member of Spiritual and pastoral committee of Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous from 2011 to present.
7. Member of Rotaract club of Jyoti Nivas Committee from 2015 to 2018.
8. Member of the hand book design committee for 2016 – 2019
9. Member of Admission committee of Jyoti Nivas college from 2011-2018
10. Member of the discipline committee from 2012- 2016
11. Staff editor of the Magazine committee from 2015- 2019
12. Member of Hospitality committee of Jyoti Nivas college from 2011- 2019
13. Selected as the practical examiner for reputed colleges in Bangalore like Dayananda Sagar University, St Joseph ‘s College, NMKRV College, Mount Carmel College
14. Question paper setter for various colleges in Bangalore like Mount Carmel college Autonomous -2019

1. Coordinator –Clinical Research Short Term Course.
2. Examiner and question paper setter for other colleges
3. Conducts various spiritual and pastoral tasks in charge for the second year arts students .

• Performs for Students day programme, Christmas programme etc along with the staff team

1. Organizing committee member for a National level Bio symposium on ‘ Project Green Rescue’ in February, 2016 at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore.
2. Organizing committee member for a UGC sponsored National level conference on ‘ Bio essence – Integrated Healthcare’ in January, 2017 at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore.
3. Organizing committee member (Coordinator –inaugural committee) for a UGC sponsored National level conference on ‘Mind Body Matters ‘ held in January, 2018 at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bangalore.
4. Coordinator for the Clinical Research Short Term Course from 2013 to present.
5. Organizing committee member of Hospitality committee for Independence Day Programme, Christmas Celebration, 175th Year Jubilee Celebration, College Day Programme from 2015 to present.
6. First year examination Custodian in the examination committee for one year (2016 – 2017)
7. Discipline committee for one year 2014-20
8. Religion class -in charge of first and second final year.
9. Staff editor for the College Magazine and Scientia the student Journal.
10. 11, Member of College Handbook Designing Committee – 2017 – 2019.

Other Research Work/Consultancy
- Guiding 3rd year BSc biotech students in carrying out the project works on From 2012 – 2019

1) Dr Divya Joseph Pereira was honoured and felicitated for her Docter of philosophy in the field of Biotechnology on 11th January 2025 at Sri Puttannachetty Townhall Bangalore ,by Archbishop Most Rev. Dr. Peter Machado, C.B. Rishyant IPS , Mr Sadhukokila , President , Karnataka Film Academy , the event organised by Karnataka KraistaAlpasankyataraJaguthiVedike (R).
2) Ms Sejal Kamath Under the guidance of Dr Divya Joseph Pereira from the department of Biotechnology won 2nd place for the paper titled “ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES OF CAR-T CELL THERAPY FOR BLOOD CANCERS: CURRENT APPLICATIONS, ROADBLOCKS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS" in National science day 2025 , paper presentation event organised by Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous on 27 th February 2025 .
3) Bal Oindree&Pereira DJ. Immunoinformatics- Driven multi-epitope Vaccine approaches for Dengue virus , Journal of University of Shanghai for science and technology, February , 2025, 27(2),71-90.
4) S Sarojini, DJ pereira,SM Hegde, RR Kundapur, R Abraham and PM Madaiah.2023.Nanotechnology and stress adaptations in plants .In Stress in plants :The hidden half , edited By RK Upadhyay, 69-89.Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge scholars publishing , United kingdom .
5) Divya Joseph Pereira , V.Krishna Murthy,Prashantha Karunakr, Sema Tharannum.(2022). Medicinal significance of drug like compounds derived from Anethum sowa L. seed oil and in-silico predictive investigation of cancer therapy potential ,Journal of medical Pharmaceutical and allied sciences,11(1)4218-4223.
6) Divya Joseph Pereira ,B.S. Mahanash kumar , Prashantha Karunakar, Seema Tharannum.(2021).Anticancer , Anticollagenase and insilico docking studies of Anethum sowa L herb oil against HCT 116 Human colorectral cancer cell line. Journal of Pharmaceutical research international 33(30A) 1-13.
7) Divya Joseph pereira , Seema Tharannum .(2021).Pharmacologicalpotential of Volatile oil and extract of Anethum Sowa L, Research journal of agricultural science 12(2), 681-685.
8) Sophia D, Divya J.P.(2015), Evaluation of in vitro Cytotoxic effects of symplocos cochinchinensis against HeLa and MCF7 Cell Lines. Academic studies- National Journal of Jyoti Research Academy, 9(2),52-55.
9) Thriveni.V, Prasad, Divya J.P.(2014), In vitro phytochemical and Antimicrobial Analysis for leaf extracts of various Clerodendrum species- Scientia Vol 7.

1) Participated in an Intense internship Programme in Gastro – Intestinal Health Research , Translational Research Laboratory for Gut Motility disorders , St John’s Medical College Bangalore from 7 th to 21 st January 2023 .
2) Six day International online Faculty development programme titled Promoting quality culture for quality enhancement : a quality assurance measure , organized by IQAC, Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous ,Bengaluru from 19th to 24 th , July 2022.
3) Two day wokshop on 20 th and 21 st January 2023 aiming at institutional development plan for effective implementation for NEP 2020 organized by Bengaluru City University in Collaboration with center for educational and social studies and Yuvaka Sangha .
4)Seven day National level online faculty development programme on OBE organized by St James college of nursing and st James college of pharmaceutical sciences , chalakudy in association with Kerala state higher educational council from 8 th march to 15 th march 2023. 5)State level seminar on Sustaining quality and relevance in higher education organized by conference of catholic colleges of Karnataka in collaboration with Xavier board of higher education in India on 24 th March 2023.
6) Six day international faculty development programme “ Quality enhancement to facilitate Academic excellence and well being organized by the internal quality assurance cell . Jyoti Nivas College autonomous from 16- 21 st January 2024 .
7) Seven day National faculty development Programme , Research , Innovation and Industry connect Empowering Excellence in Education , organized by the Internal Quality Assurance cell( IQAC), Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous from 21 st to 27 the April 2025