Mrs. Sutharshiny Sathyaruban

B.Sc (UOJ, SL), M.Phil (UOJ, SL) and PhD (reading, USJP, SL)                                                                                                                                           

Senior Lecturer (Gr-II)                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Specialised in Bio chemistry, Fish feed and nutrient and Aquaculture                                                                                                         

ssutharshi@univ.jfn.ac.lk

Academic Profile

  1. PhD in Aquaculture and Fish biochemistry at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka and UiT, Norway (In progress)
  2. Completed M.Phil in fisheries Science at the Department of Fisheries, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka (From 20-07-2010 to 26-12-2012)    Title of Research – “Lipid changes in relation to sexual maturity and spawning in Scomberoids lysan (Carangidae) from waters around Jaffna peninsula, Sri Lanka”
  3. Completed in Professional English at the Open University of Sri Lanka,
  4. BSc (Hons) in Zoology, Second class (Upper division), University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka
  5. Completed certificate course on research methodology and scientific writing conducted by the faculty of graduate studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura in 2023.
  6. Completed Certificate Course in Molecular Biology Laboratory techniques in 2019
  7. Completed the induction programme for Academic staff conducted by the staff development center, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka on April 2015

Research grants

2015 –

Principal – investigator of the research project titled “Evaluation of shelf life for commercially important food fishes and shell fishes in the Jaffna Peninsula during ice storage (Research station: University of Jaffna: URG/2015/01). (Amount 500,040/=). (Completed)

2018 –

Principal investigator of the research project titled “Effect of natural carotenoid for enhancing colouration and growth in goldfish (Carassius auratus)” (URG/2018/SEIT/02) (Amount 800,000/=) (Completed)

2019 –

Principal Investigator of the research titled “A comparative study on isolation of DNA from fin, scale and tissues of cryptic ornamental fishes in Jaffna Peninsula” (URG/2019/SEIT/22) (Amount 900,000/=). Completed

2021 –

Principal Investigator of the research titled “Formulation of practical diets for swordtails Xiphophorus helleri (Poeciliidae) for growth and colour optimization using mathematical modelling” (URG/2021/SEIT/30) (Amount 797,000 /=) Completed.

2021-

Principal Investigator of the research titled “Enhancing the skin colouration of ornamental fishes using palmyrah fruit” (AHEAD/RA3/UBL/JFN/OVAA/23) (Amount 91,500/=) in progress

2021-

Financial assistance by UGC for PhD studies titled “Efficiency of skin colouration, immune response and growth in Guppy, swordtail and platyfish species fed with locally formulated diet using palmyrah fruit pulp, seaweed and shrimp shells” amounting Rs. 2,767,642.28 in 2021 (in Progress) [1.6e(vi)]

Patents, Book chapters and research papers

  1. Logeswaran, S., Sivashanthini, K., Thavaranjith, A.C. and Sutharshiny, S. (2015). Assessment of water quality and pollution level at kakaithivu Lagoon of Jaffna District. Northern Sri Lanka, Second National Symposium on Marine Environment – 2015, Marine Environmental Protection Authority. 40
  2. Sivashanthini,K. Sathyaruban, S. Gunnalan, K., Ananthasothy, T., Kularajasingam, V. and Senathera Digamadula, K.M.D. (2015). Spatial variation of physico chemical parameters in selected areas of Jaffna Lagoon. Proceedings of second National Symposium on Marine Environment. 26.
  3. Kuganathan, S., Kularajasingam, C.V., Ananthasothy, T., Dayanantha, S.D.K.M., Sathyaruban, S. and Kuddithampy,G. (2015). Diversity of seacucumber species in the Jaffna Lagoon, Sri Lanka. Nara Scientific session.
  4. Ginthusha, S., Sutharshiny, S., K Sivashanthini, 2021. Evaluation of mosquito fern as a low-cost feed on the growth performance of Poecilia sphenops (Family Poeciliidae), Proceedings of the Scientific Sessions of the Sri Lanka Associatioan for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (SLAFAR). 27, 43
  5. Rajasiri, A.M.P., Krishnapillai, N., S Sutharshiny, Antimicrobial potentials of mangrove plants Avicennia marina and Rhizophora mucronata against selected fungal and bacterial species, Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022, Physics Society Unversity of Jaffna, 02
  6. Anjalie, N.M.I., Sathyaruban, S., and Kuganathan, S., 2023. Effect of feeding frequency on growth performance of swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri Heckel, 1848), Jaffna Science 29th Annual Scientific Sessions 29 (1), 20.
  7. Vasanth, K., Sathyaruban, S., Yohi, S., Thapeetha, A., and Kuganathan, S., 2023). A preliminary study on the extraction of fish oil using the cost-effective method, Jaffna Science 29th Annual Scientific Sessions 29 (1), 17
  8. Sivagini,K., Sivashanthini K., Jeyavanan,K., Sutharshiny,S., and Velauthamurty,K (2021). Application of seaweed waste as Fertilizers on growth and yield performance of Brinjal (Solanum melongena) International Conference on Environmental Governance
  9. Sutharshiny, S and Sivashanthini, K (2011). Changes in total lipid content in the flesh of different size Scomberoides lysan from waters around Jaffna peninsula. Proceedings of Jaffna Science Association. Eighteen Annual Sessions (06th to 08th April 2011): 08
  10. Sutharshiny, S and Sivashanthini, K (2013). Monthly changes in gonad, muscle and liver lipid of female Scomberoides lysan from Northern waters of Sri Lanka. Proceeding and abstracts of 9th Ruhuna Science Symposium (9th of January 2013)
  11. Sivashanthini, K., Sutharshiny, S., Veronika, C.K., Tharmine, A. and Thulasitha, W.S (2014). Status of catch abundance of sea cucumber in Jaffna district. International Conference on Fisheries Science. 57.
  12. Sivashanthini, K., Gunaalan, K., Harichandra, K., Sutharshiny, S., Warnasuriya, T.W.S. and Ragavan, N. (2019). Salinity variations in surface water systems in Delft Island Sri Lanka. Proceeding of the 39th Annual Sessions of the Institute of Biology, 68.
  13. S Sathyaruban, K N, DI Uluwaduge, S Kuganathan, 2021. Variations of the Palmyrah (Borassus flabellifer L) fruit quality in Jaffna district. Young Scientists’ Conference Multidisciplinary Research (YSCMR)-2021, 24.
  14. Sathyaruban, N., Sutharshiny, S. and Abhayaratne, A. (2023). Effects of Economic Crisis on Food Security of Rural Households in Vavuniya: Case Study in Vavuniya North Division in Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka, Thirty-Fifth Annual Congress of the PGIA, 28.
  15. Sutharshiny, S and Sivashanthini, K (2012). Allocation of total lipid and water content in different tissues of Scomberoides lysan. International conference on Fisheries and Marine sciences 23rd -24th August 2012.Negombo, Sri Lanka: 23.
  16. Sutharshiny, S. and Sivashanthini, K. (2017). First Report of Liposcelis sp (Psocoptera: Liposcelidae) from the dried shrimps – A seafood product. International Conference on Aquatic animal health and parasitic diseases. 133.
  17. Sutharshiny, S., Sivashanthini, K., and Kalaivanan, K., (2017). Relative abundance of Cymothoa eremita (Brunnich, 1783) (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) in different Rabbitfishes from the Northern coastal waters of Sri Lanka. International Conference on Aquatic animal health and parasitic diseases. 134.
  18. Sutharshiny, S., Shivatharsiny, Yohi and Sivashanthini, K. (2019). Determination of Proximate Composition and Crude Yield of Shrimp Shells (Peneaus Semisulcatus). 2nd International Conference on research in Science Engineering and Technology. 1. in Paris, France. November 22–24, 2019.
  19. Sathyaruban, S., Uluwaduge, D.I., Kuganathan, S., K Harichandra, 2021. Clustering the local feed ingredients for ornamental fish species based on their proximate composition, price, and availability, International Conference on Innovation and Emerging Technologies,
  20. Sathyaruban, S., Yohi, S.,Uluwaduge, D.I., Kuganathan, S., Khalingarajah, H.2022. Quantitative estimation of total carotenoid content in palmyrah fruit pulp, shrimp shells, and brown algae: A comparative spectroscopic analysis. ACS (American Chemistry Society) fall 2022
  21. Sutharshiny, S., Deepthi, I.U., Sivashanthini, K. 2021. Improving the floatation of fish feed pellets using starch gelatinization incorporated with palmyrah fruit pulp. GEORGIA CHAPTER AFS 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting.
  22. Sutharshiny, S., Deepthi, I.U., Sivashanthini, K. 2022. Goldfish accepted the formulated dry pellets incorporated with palmyrah fruit pulp? Fisheries Society of the British Isles Annual International Symposium 25th-29th July 2022 Nottingham Trent University, UK. 90.

Awards, scholarships & fellowship

  • UNU – UNESCO International Fellowship to attend a two weeks training programme on mangrove biodiversity at Annamalai University, India in 2015
  • THE IOC/IODE/OCEANTEACHER  GLOBAL  ACADEMY:  OTGA-INOS/UMT  Training  Course:                                                                        Foundations  of  Coastal  and  Marine  Spatial  Planning:  18  –  22  November  2018, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia.
  • Best oral presentation award – first runner up – Virtual 13th AFAF – 2nd June 2022.
  • PhD mobility training fellowship at UiT, Norway under NORPART Project – 2022

Conferences, Workshop/Study visit

  • Resource person for the O/L Fisheries Teachers’ Training Workshop organized by NIE in association with the Department of Fisheries, University of Jaffna on September 2014
  • Actively participated in the curriculum revision/design effected in the faculty in I served as a member for the activity of curriculum revision for the study programme in Fisheries Science of Quality Enhancement Fund of the IRQUE project
  • Resource person for the O/L Fisheries Teachers’ Training Workshop organized by NIE in association with the Department of Fisheries, University of Jaffna in September 2015
  • Served as a resource person by delivering a talk on physicochemical parameters in the ponds and waterholes in Delft Island for stakeholders in the Delft Island organized by grantee, IUCN, MFF in association with Fisheries Department on 20-04-2015
  • Resource person for the O/L Science Teachers organized by Island Education in September 2016
  • Served as a Resource person by delivering a talk on ‘Fish processing techniques” in a
  • Workshop organized by ZOA, Jaffna on 26th September
  • Served as a resource person by delivering a talk on ‘Conservation and Management Coastal Ecosystems’ in a Training Programme on Environmental Sensitive Subjects Areas organized by the privational education office from 7th of December to 9th of December, 2016
  • Invited talk on Marine environment conservation awareness programme on 29th May 2017 at St. James Girls’ School, Jaffna.
  • Resources person for the intensive workshop on perspective in blue fisheries and technology organized by the Department of Fisheries, University of Jaffna, under the NOR-LANKA project from 23rd March to 2nd April 2019.
  • Served as a resource person by delivering a talk on “Blue technology in the blue economy” for Zoology Honours Degree students, the Open University of Sri Lanka, Jaffna on 20-01-2024

University/National Development

  • Life member of Jaffna Science Association (JSA), Jaffna, Sri
  • Life member of Sri Lanka Association for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Sri Lanka
  • Life member of Thodaimanaru Field work centre, Sri Lanka
  • Life member of Institute of Biology Sri Lanka – 2019
  • Member in Fisheries Society of the British Isles – 2022
  • Secretary, Section A /Jaffna Science Association-2014
  • Technical Evaluation committee member, Department of Fisheries – 2015 to date
  • Senior treasurer, Fisheries Science Society, University of Jaffna – 2016 – 2022
  • Student Councillor, University of Jaffna – Mar, 2017 –Mar, 2018
  • Committee member in Thondaimanaru Field Work Centre -2016 – 2021
  • Secretary, Alumni Association – Interim Committee Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Jaffna 2017 – 2021
  • Committee member, Curriculum development, revision, and monitoring, Faculty of Science 2019 to 2021
  • Committee member for making arrangements with the computer unit of the university to conduct certain in computer applications in 2017.
  • Committee member, Biosafety committee – Faculty of Science 2020
  • Co-Ordinator for Applied Science Degree programme, Faculty of Science – 2020
  • Committee member, Science Faculty Strategic Management from November 2018 to 2021
  • Team member for the proposal writing for AHEAD project funded by World Bank (100 Million) for Faculty of Science
  • Secretary, Educational committee, Sathya Sai Organization Northern Province 2018 to 2022
  • Balvikas co-ordinator, Sathya Sai Organization Northern Province 2019 to todate
  • President in Thondaimanaru Field work centre – 2021 – 2022
  • Committee member, Carrier guidance Faculty of Science- 2023- to date
  • Secretary, VIGNANAM Research Conference 2024