As Principal Investigator (PI):
 1. Short-term Overseas Associateship 2003-04, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India
Was awarded overseas associateship to carry out post-doctoral research for a period of Six months (February-August 2005) at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Successfully completed the “Study of differential expression of virulence genes and tissue tropism in Listeria monocytogenes serotypes using Microarray.” under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Werner Goebel, Chair of Microbiology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

2. Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) funded extramural - Adhoc Research Project RFC No. ECD/Adhoc/18/2002/2003 Amount: Rs 6,85463/-
“Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) in foods of animal origin and clinical samples”, Three years duration; 2003-2006.

3.MAC ID funded project : Amount Rs. 2Lakhs. (ongoing)Detection of common diarrheagenic bacterial and viral pathogens in faecal samples of paediatric patients by polymerase chain reaction’ One year duration April2019 to March 2020

As Co investigator (CO-PI)
1. DRDE, Gwalior funded Sub – project/ Task
Project title: Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) of Clinical Isolates of Burkholderia pseudomallei from Western Coastal Region of South India” May 2016-April2017
Order No. DRDE/TC/05414/Proj/TASK-219/16 dtd. 13-may-2016 Grant amount of Rs. 9.30 lakhs
2. MAC ID funded project :Association of virulence genes with clinical presentations and outcomes in melioidosis. Funding Agency: Manipal McGill Center for Infectious Diseases January 2017 to Dec 2017. Amount: Rs. One lakh.

Awards/Travel Grants:
1. Short-term Overseas Associateship 2003-04, Department of Biotechnology (DBT),
Govt.of India., to visit University of Wuerzburg Germany
2. Distinguished Alumni award yr.2003 Manipal University, Manipal.
3. Dr. TMA Pai Gold Medal for Outstanding Research for the Yr. 2003-04.instituted by
Manipal University (MAHE) Manipal

Publications

1.      Bhat NR, Shivashankar SBK and Dhanashree B Antibiogram of Urinary Enterococcus Isolates from a Tertiary Care Hospital. Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets, 2021, 21, 146-150

2.      Biranthabail Dhanashree, Shalini Shenoy  Seropositivity for dengue and Leptospira IgM among patients with acute febrile illness: an indicator of co-infection? GERMS 2021 11: 155-162

3.      Krishna D, Dhanashree B Antibiogram, Virulence Genes, and Biofilm-Forming Ability of Clinical Salmonella enterica Serovars: An In Vitro Study. Microbial Drug Resistance 2021. 27:871 to 878

4.      Kashyap V, Dhanashree B. Antibacterial properties of distilled cow’s urine on bacterial species from clinical specimens. Biomedicine 2022;42(3):517-22. 

5.      Natasha Aquinas, Ethel Suman, Dhanashree B., Ashwini Hegde Effect of Cymbopogon citratus on biofilm production by multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Biomedicine 2022;42(6):1243-1248. 

6.      Sreejisha M, Shalini Shenoy Mulki, Suchitra Shenoy, Biranthabail Dhanashree, Chakrapani M , Gopalakrishna Bhat.  Heterogeneous Vancomycin Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients – A Hospital-Based Comparative Study Infection and Drug Resistance 2023:16 9–17

7.      Archana Bhat, Suchetha S. Rao, Sevitha Bhat, Katara Vidyalakshmi, Biranthabail Dhanashree, Molecular diagnosis of bacterial and viral diarrhoea using multiplex-PCR assays: An observational prospective study among paediatric patients from India, Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology,2023;41:64-70

8.      Mallikarjuna PV, Dhanashree B. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Taibah Univ Med Sc 2023;18(3):480-487

9.      Shivashankar S.B.K., Bhat N.R., Dhanashree B. Antibiogram of Enterococcus spp. associated with post-operative wound infections. Infektsionnye bolezni: novosti, mneniya, obuchenie [Infectious Diseases: News, Opinions, Training]. 2023; 12 (1): 84–9.

10. Senna Mukhi, Biranthabail Dhanashree, Rukmini Mysore Srikantiah, Poornima Manjrekar, Sindhu Harish, "Evaluation of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration of Heavy Metals Contained in Packaging Material Digest on Prominent Gut Microbiota", International Journal of Food Science, vol. 2023, Article ID 3840795, 8 pages, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/3840795

11. Senna Mukhi, Biranthabail Dhanashree, Rukmini Mysore Srikantiah, Poornima Manjrekar & Sindhu Harish. Assessing the impact of heavy metal residues in food and drug packaging on the standard bacterial strains: a biofilm perspective, CyTA - Journal of Food, 2023: 21:(1), 711-717.

12. M, Sreejisha, Shalini Shenoy M, Suchitra Shenoy M, Dhanashree B, Chakrapani M, and Gopalakrishna Bhat K. 2023. “Molecular and Clinical Features of Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus Aureus in Tertiary Care Hospitals in South India”. Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal 23 (4):447-54. https://doi.org/10.18295/squmj.3.2023.018

13. Renu, S.M., Rao, A.P., Biranthabail Dhanashree.,Mahabala, K.Y., Panakaje, A.N. Screening for Microbial Contamination of Multi-dose Lignocaine Vials in a Dental Hospital: A Prospective Study. International Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry 2023, 16(5), pp. 678–680