EMPLOYMENT:
1986-1987 - Volunteer, cancer hospice - Shanti Avedna Ashram.
1987-1990 - Associate Instructor, General Pathology Laboratory, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, for sophomore dental students.
1988-1990 - Volunteer, oral cancer screening clinic at Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, Indiana, by Little Red Door (American Cancer Society Subsidiary).
1992-1996 - Departmental representative (senator) to Graduate and Professional Students' Senate.
1994-1998 - Acting Instructor, Department of Oral Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
1998-Present - Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine, Pathology, Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

HONORS:
1996 - International Association for Dental Research Edward H. Hatton award: Second place, Post-doctoral category.
1996 - American Association for Dental Research Edward H. Hatton award winner; Post-doctoral category.
1993-94 - Warren G. Magnuson Scholarship, First recipient; for academic excellence and potential for contribution to research.
1987 - J. N. Tata Scholarship, (National award - India).
1987 - J R. D. Sethna Scholarship, (City award - Bombay).
1987 - Shri Brihad Bharatiya Samaj Scholarship.
1982, 1983, 1984,1985,1986 - Sir Dorab Tata Scholarship for excellence in academic and extra-curricular activities, won annually (City award - Bombay).
1983-84 - St. Luke's Medical Guild Scholarship
1982-83 - College Union Committee Scholarship for the Best All-Round Student of Sophia (Junior) College.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
1988-1991 - American Dental Association
1988-present - American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
1993-present - American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
1991-present - American / International Association of Dental Research

PUBLICATIONS:
Articles
D'Silva, N.J.; Jacobson, K.L.; and Watson, E.L.: Translocation of rap1 upon isoproterenol stimulation of rat parotid acini. American J Physiol.Cell Physiol 274:C1667-C1673, 1998
D'Silva, N.J.; DiJulio, D.H.; Belton, C.M.; Jacobson, K.L.; and Watson, E.L: Immunolocalization of rap1 in the rat parotid gland: Detection on secretory granule membranes. J Histochem Cytochem 45:965-973, 1997.
Watson, E.L; Oliver, C.; D'Silva, N.J.; and Belton, C.M.: Localization of the G-protein, Go, In Exocrine Glands. J Histochem Cytochem. 42:41-47, 1994.
D'Silva, N. J. and Anderson, L.: The globulomaxillary cyst revisited. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol 76:182-4, 1993.
Abstracts
D'Silva, N.J.; Watson, E.L.; DiJulio, D.H.; and Jacobson, K.L. Rab3d and its role in exocytosis in the rat parotid gland. Abstract at the AADR/ IADR meeting in Orlando, March 1997.
D'Silva, N. J.; Belton, C.M.; Jacobson, K. L.; and Watson, E.L: Characterization of Rap1 in the rat parotid gland. Abstract at the AADR meeting in San Francisco, March 1996.
D'Silva, N. J.; Jacobson, K. L.; and Watson, E.L.: Rap1 in the rat parotid gland: Exploring its role in secretion. Abstract at the AADR meeting in Seattle, March 1994.
D'Silva, N. J.; DiJulio, D.; Jacobson, K. L.; and Watson, E.L.: Localization of Rap1 and investigation of its role in rat parotid gland. Abstract at the American Physiological Society Conference in San Francisco, November 1993.

D'Silva N. J. and Zunt, S. L.: An analysis of amalgam tattoos with associated lymphoid hyperplasia Abstract at the American Academy of Oral Pathology meeting in San Francisco, May 1992.

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