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Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam

Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam rather than just read about it. In short: Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (born 3 January 1949) is an Indian proteomicist, geneticist, academic and the founder of Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics at Madurai Kamaraj University. He is known for his contributions in the fields of eye disease proteomics and mutagenic DNA repair in Escherichia coli.

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Reference excerpt

Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (born 3 January 1949) is an Indian proteomicist, geneticist, academic and the founder of Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics at Madurai Kamaraj University. He is known for his contributions in the fields of eye disease proteomics and mutagenic DNA repair in Escherichia coli. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1992, for his contributions to biological sciences.

Biography Born on 3 January 1949 in Pollachi, a border town in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam did his schooling at Gandhi Kala Nilayam High School and secured his graduate and master's degrees in zoology from Thiagarajar College, Madurai before enrolling for PhD at Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) under the guidance of J. Jayaraman, working on yeast mitochondrial membrane biogenesis. After obtaining his doctoral degree, he did his post-doctoral research with Edward D. Goldberg at Tufts University School of Medicine on genetics of bacteriophages. Returning to India, he joined MKU and spent his entire academic career there but had a short stint at University of Geneva in between. During his early researches on Escherichia coli, a gram-negative bacterium, he discovered the induction of mutagenic DNA repair during restriction of nonglucosylated T4 DNA and the alleviation of restriction by SOS functions. Subsequently, he studied the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium leprae using proteomics tools and discovered the single nucleotide polymorphism in the unique small alpha crystalline like heat shock protein in the gram-positive bacterium. His researches have been documented in over 200 articles; ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific papers, has listed 48 of them. It was during his tenure at the MKU, the Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics was established at the university in 1986. He is a life member of the Proteomics Society, India (PSI), editor of its newsletter, a former member of its executive council and was the convener of the workshop, Clinical Proteomics: Methods and Applications, conducted by PSI in October 2014. He is a Distinguished Research Professor of the Department of Biotechnology and an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1992. Post retirement, Dharmalingam has been working since 2013 as a director of Aravind Medical Research Foundation, a Tamil Nadu-based research centre, ophthalmic hospital chain and a World Health Organization collaborating centre for the prevention of blindness.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam

In research: Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1949 births, 20th-century Indian biologists, Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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