Name: N.P. Harshani Deepa Kumari

Contact Information: harshaninainanayake@nara.ac.lk                                

Academic Qualification        

• B.Sc. Special Degree (Hons) in Fisheries and Marine Sciences, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.
• M.Sc. in Marine Life Sciences (Invertebrate Aquaculture), Jeju National University, Republic of Korea.

Research Interest              

• Reproductive biology of bivalves, Pathology and parasitology of bivalves, Induce breeding of bivalves and ornamental fish

Research Experiences

• Quantification of reproductive effort of bivalves using egg specific antibody using ELISA
• Identification of pathogens in bivalves
• Induce breeding of bivalves and ornamental fish
• Flowcytometry analysis
• Reproductive histology
• Extraction of value added products from fish processing wastes

Publications and presentation 

• Harshani Deepa Kumari N.P, Jeong Hwa Kim, Chul-Won Kim, Kwang-Sik Choi, 2018 Cyclic changes of gametogenesis and quantification of reproductive output of horse clam Tresus keenae in yeosu, south korea, In abstract Asian Pacific Aquaculture 2018,Taipei,Taiwan.2018-April 23-26.
• H.K. Hong, H.M. Lee, Y.G. Cho, S. Thatchaneshkanth, N.P. Harshani, J.H. Kim, J.S. Shin,H.S. Park, K.S. Choi, 2018 Recovery of Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas raised in an intertidal rack-suspended culture system in terms of growth and reproduction 3 years after the Hebei Spirit oil spill accident of the west coast of Korea, In Special Issue on the 3^rd ELSEVIER Aquaculture Conference: Recent Advances in Aquaculture Research, Hyatt Regency Qingdao, China, 25-28 September 2018
• Deepa Kumari N.P.H and Cumaranatunga P.R.T., 2016. Characterization of extracted gelatine from the skin of Thunnus albacares and Thunnus obessus. In abstract of 22^nd annual Scientific Session of Sri Lanka Association for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (SLAFAR), Colombo,Sri Lanka 2016 – 3^rd of June 2016, P.49