Expertise
Numerous expreience since 1996 in
Teaching (undergraduate and master's level)
Reserach (field and laboratory based experiments to biological, biochemical, and molecular work)
Consultation (private industry and graduate students) Numerous expreience since 1996 in
Teaching (undergraduate and master's level)
Reserach (field and laboratory based experiments to biological, biochemical, and molecular work)
Consultation (private industry and graduate students)
Biological experiments
Bioassays
Colony maintanance

Biochemical and molecular skills
Western blot analysis
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Cloning and chracterizing genes
RNA expression pattern (Northern Analysis and real-time quantitative PCR)
Food Processing Facilities, Heat Shock Gene Expression, Heat Shock Proteins, Heat Treatment, Insect Management, Reproductive Performance of Insects Exposed to Sub-lethal Te
I have worked for the last three years on heat tretament as an alternative method to methyl bromide fumigation to disinfest food processing facilities. More data are generated on how heat distributed in mills, efficient utilization of heat, and insect responses to heat and
Responses of insects to environmental stresses
Alternatives to pesticides
Integrated pest management
Past Affiliations

Graduate Student, Department of Grain Science & Industry, College of Agriculture, Kansas State University

Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Grain Science & Industry, College of Agriculture, Kansas State University
2001 - 2003

Consultant, Botany
2001 - 2001

Research Officer, Botany
2001 - 2001

Research Assistant, Institute of Ecology and Resource Management
1997 - 1999

Teaching, Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya (past)
2000 - 2000

Research Assistant, Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya (past)
2000 - 2000

Advisor, Touchwood Investments (Pvt.) Ltd., Colombo, Sri Lanka
2000 - 2001

Temporary Lecturer, Agricultural Biology
1997 - 1997

Degrees
PhD, Kansas State University, Entomology, 2004
MPhil, University of Edinburgh, Entomology, 2000
BS, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Agriculture, 1997
Keywords
grains & cereals pest management
Languages
English, Sinhalese, Tamil
Honors

First Place in the Oral Presentation in the Agriculture Section, Graduate School (Kansas State University), 2004

Recipient of the NSF-EPSCoR Graduate Student Travel Award, NSF-EPSCoR Kansas (Kansas State University), 2004

C. C. Burkhardt Graduate Student Award for the Best Paper., C. C. Burkhardt (75th Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference of Entomologists), 2004

Don C. Warren scholarship for Genetics (Genetics), Don C. Warren Family (Kansas State University), 2003-2004

R. C. Smith Award for Ph.D. (Entomology), Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, 2003-2003

Fred Clute Award for Research in Integrated Pest Management (Integrated Pest Management), Fred Clute Family (Kansas State University), 2003

Second Place for the Poster (Physiology, Toxicology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), President's Prize of the Entomological society of America (Entomological Society of America National Meeting), 2003

R. S. Painter Award for Ph.D. (Entomology), Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, 2002-2002

Scholarship and Studentship for M. Phil. Degree (Forest Entomology), DFID (Department for International Development, UK) (University of Edinburgh, Uk), 1997-2000

Associations
Entomological Society of America
General Council of the University of Edinburg
Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Sciences and Related Services
Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science