• Medical Diagnostics
• Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques
• Animal Diversity

Ph.D.  University of Delhi  (2014)

M. Sc.  Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut  (2001)

B. Sc.    University of Delhi (1999)

• Assistant Professor , Aug 2002 to July 2003 , Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College
• Assistant Professor (Permanent ) , July 2003 – Aug 2016 , Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College
• Associate Professor , Aug 2016-Jan 2022 , Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College
• Professor , Jan 2022 onwards , Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College

Animal Diversity, Animal Behaviour & Chronobiology, Animal Physiology and Functional Histology, Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Applied Zoology, Biodiversity, Biotechnology, Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates, Diversity of Chordates, Environmental Management, Genetics, Immunology Medical Diagnostics, Non-Chordates I & II, Physiology and Developmental Biology

Convenor/Member of various Committees in the college:

• Institutional Ethics Committee
• Admission Committee (Convenor)
• Examinations Core Committee
• Prevention against Sexual Harassment Committee
• Proctorial Board (Convenor)
• Annual Day Committee
• Anti-Ragging Committee
• College Evaluation Centre
• Student Welfare Committee
• Student Union Advisory Committee
• Annual Day Committee

Convenor of Department of Zoology, SGTB Khalsa College (2016-18)

       Member of various committees in the Department of Zoology, SGTB Khalsa College.

1. Organized National workshop on Scientific Illustration: Context in Learning Process of Biological Sciences (Oct 2021) by Department of Zoology, SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi
2. Delivered oral presentation titled “Screening currency notes for M. tuberculosis using loop mediated isothermal amplification” at World Conference on Lung Health 2018 in Hague, Netherlands (Oct 2018). Was awarded with Travel Grant from UGC.
3. Resource Person for Workshop cum Hands on Training Program on Molecular Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases organized by Dr. BR Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research and Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences during March 2018
4. Presented research work in the 11th Symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Research on Challenges in Human Health organized by ACBR, University of Delhi (February, 2018)

Supervision of M.Sc. Dissertation, awarded: 06

  Supervision of B.Sc. Dissertation, awarded: 04

Research papers published in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals:

• Nimesh M, Joon D, Pathak AK and Saluja D (2013). Comparative study of diagnostic accuracy of established PCR assays and in-house developed sdaA PCR method for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in symptomatic patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Journal of Infection 67(5): 399-407.
• Nimesh M, Joon D, Varma-Basil M and Saluja D (2014). Development and clinical evaluation of sdaA loop mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of M. tuberculosis with an approach to prevent carry-over contamination. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 52: 2662-4
• Joon D, Nimesh M, Saluja D (2015). Loop-mediated isothermal amplification as alternative to PCR for the diagnosis of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 19 ( 8): 986-991
• Nimesh N, Joon D, Nimesh M (2017) Advances in Microscopy-A Review. Voyager- Journal of Life Sciences VIII (1): 27-36             
• Joon D, Nimesh N, Nimesh M (2017) Clinical manifestations of Tuberculosis. Voyager- Journal of Life Sciences VIII (1): 37-46
• Joon D, Nimesh M, Varma-Basil M, Saluja D (2017). Evaluation of improved IS6110 LAMP assay for diagnosis of pulmonary and extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Journal of Microbiological Methods 139:87-91
• Joon D, Nimesh M, Gupta S, Kumar C, Varma-Basil M and Saluja D  (2019) Development and evaluation of rapid and specific sdaA LAMP-LFD assay with Xpert MTB/RIF assay for diagnosis of tuberculosis. Journal of Microbiological Methods 159:161-166.
• Pandey S, Nimesh M, Pal S (2021) Phylogenetic comparison of some nematode parasites of Periplaneta americana based on Electropherogram and secondary RNA Structure. Journal of Experimental Zoology 24: 1545-1552
• Pal S, Nimesh M, Gupta AK, Pandey P (2021) Phylogenetic comparison of some nematode parasites of Periplaneta americana on the basis of DNA sequence alignment and Phylogenetic tree. Journal of Experimental Zoology 24: 1365-1379.
• Nimesh M, Kang R, Joon D (2022) Screening the paper currency for Mycobacterium tuberculosis using loop mediated isothermal amplification. Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology 10: 221-225

• Principal Investigator for multi-centric project titled Designing and evaluation of point of care diagnostic assay for detection of MDR Tuberculosis using Loop mediated isothermal amplification combined with lateral flow dipstick funded by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (2019-2022)
• Principal Investigator for the one-year project on Detection and evaluation of Mycobacterium marinum in catfish using nucleic acid amplification techniques funded by Science Centre, SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi (2018-19)
• Consultant for Indo-Canada Research Project on Development of hand-held molecular point-of-care test device for infectious diseases IC-IMPACTS Grant by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2017-18)

• Member of THE UNION (The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease)

•  National Faculty Development Program on “Academic Report Writing and Research Methodology” organized by Guru Angad Dev Teaching Learning Centre, and Department of Business Economics, SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi during March 4-10, 2021. 
• Faculty Development Program on “Teacher’s e-kit and MOOCs in 4 Quadrant format of e-content " organized by Guru Angad Dev Teaching Learning Centre SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi during 12-20 Sep, 2020.
• Faculty Development Program on “Research Methodology using SPSS & art of writing a research proposal” during 15-20 June 2020 organized by      St. Claret College, Bangalore University
• Faculty Development Program on “e-Learning, Pedagogy & ICT Tools in Higher Education" organized by Guru Angad Dev Teaching Learning Centre SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi during 26 Nov to 7 Dec, 2018.
• Refresher Course organized by UGC-ASC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi during 12 May to 2 June, 2014         
• Workshop on “Statistical Methods for Evaluation of Diagnostic Kits" held at National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi during 15-17 November, 2012.
• Biology Laboratory Course organized by Institute of Life-long Learning and Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi during 2 to 4 Sep 2008