Presidential Scholarship to follow a M.Sc (1999)

Monbugakusho Japanese government scholarship for post graduate studies (2004)

Travel award from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to participate XI th International Congress on Parasitology, August 6-11, 2006, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Travel award from Louisiana State University, School of Veterinary Medicine to participate the 21st International conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology, 19-23 August, 2007, Gent, Belgium.

Fellowship from WHO to follow a special training on Leishmaniasis in WHO-IRTC, Lausanne, Switzerland in October 2011.

National Research Council (NRC) - Merit Award for Scientific publications in 2009 (2012)

National Research Council (NRC) - Merit Award for Scientific publications in 2010 (2013)

2017 to date Member – Higher Degrees Committee of the faculty

2016 to date Member – Faculty Admission Committee

2015 – to date Member - Faculty ADPC

2015 – to date Chairperson FAHS Quality Assurance Cell

2012 to 2014 Member Appeals Board of the faculty

2010 to 2016 Coordinator, Niigata University student exchange programme

2011 - 2014 Theme Coordinator - “Ethnic cohesion” under the Higher Education for the Twenty first Century (HETC) Project

2012 – to date, Member to Curriculum Development Committee

2012 –  to date Chairperson Board of Study of Distance Education for Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, CDCE,

2012 – 2017 Senior Student Counselor

2012 – to date Member – Ethics Review Committee

2010 to date Member - Appeals Board of the faculty

2012 to date Member Faculty Research Committee

2015 to date Member Student Welfare and Advisory Committee

2012–2016 Senate Nominee

2015-2017 Faculty Representative , Senate Research Committee

2012-2016 Faculty Representative , Staff Development Committee

2015 to date Faculty Representative , Academic Development and Planning committee

2016 to date Faculty Representative ,Career Guidance and Counseling unit

2016 Faculty representative, Sexual and Gender Based Violence committee

2011 to 2016 Faculty representative to Convocation Committees

2011 to date Faculty Representative to IPURSE committees

2017 Co-chairperson editorial committee IPURSE -2017

LS Galgamuwa, B Sumanasena, L Yatawara, S Wickramasinghe (2017). Clinico- epidemiological patterns of cutaneous leishmaniasis patients attending the Anuradhapura teaching hospital, Sri Lanka. The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2017, 55 (1), 1.

S Wickramasinghe, L Yatawara, M Nagataki, T Agatsuma (2016) Arginine kinase in Toxocara canis: Exon–intron organization, functional analysis of site-directed mutants and evaluation of putative enzyme inhibitors. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 2016, 9 (10), 995-1001.

WK Bandara HPS, Sato MO, Yatawara L, Sato M.Detection of extended-spectrum β- lactamase-producing Escherichia coli from chicken meat in Niigata prefecture, Japan. Journal of Health Sciences 2015, 4 (2), 2-25.

S Wickramasinghe, L Yatawara, T Agatsuma. Toxocara canis (Ascaridida: Nematoda): Mitochondrial gene content, arrangement and composition compared with other Toxocara species. Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases 2014, 4 (2).

S Wickramasinghe, L Yatawara, M Nagataki, T Agatsuma. Toxocara canis Arginine Kinase: Gene Structure, Functional Analysis of Site-Directed Mutans and Screening of Substrate Analog as Potential Inhibitors, University of Peradeniya 2014, Sri Lanka.

Kulathunga DGRS, Wickramasinghe S, Rajapakse RPVJ, Lalani Yatawara, W. R. Jayaweera and Takeshi Agatsuma (2012). Immunolocalization of arginine kinase (AK) in Toxocara canis, Toxocara vitulorum, and Ascaris lumbricoides. Parasitology Research.

Yatawara L, Wickramasinghe S, Rajapakse RP, Agatsuma T (2010). The compete mitochondrial genome of  Setaria digitata  (Nematoda: Filaroidea): Mitochondrial gene content, arrangement and composition compared with other nematodes. Molecular Biochemical  Parasitology. 173 (1): 32-38.

Morphological molecular characterization of Paragonimus westermani in northeastern India (2010). Devi KR, Narain K, Agatsuma T, Blair D, Nagataki M, Wickramasinghe S, Yatawara L, Mahanta J. Acta Tropica.116(1):31-8.

Lalani Yatawara, Susiji Wickramasinghe, R. P. V. Jayantha Rajapakse, R. R. M. Laxman R. Siyambalagoda, Thanh Hoa Le, Yoshiya Watanabe, Takeshi Agatsuma (2008). Morphological and molecular studies on Sri Lankan Leishmania. Tropical Medicine and Health 36 (4):179-187.

Lalani Yatawara, Thanh Hoa Le, Susiji Wickramasinghe, Takeshi Agatsuma (2008).         Maxicircle (mitochondrial) genome sequence (partial) of Leishmania major: Gene content, arrangement and composition compared with Leishmania tarentolae. Gene 424: 80-86.

Moritoshi Iwagami, R.P.V. Jayanthe Rajapakse, Lalani Yatawara, Shigeyuki Kano, Takeshi Agatsuma(2009). The first intermediate host of Paragonimus westermani in Sri Lanka. Acta Tropica 109: 27-29.

Susiji Wickramasinghe, Lalani Yatawara, Mitsuru Nagataki, Misa Takamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, R. P. V. J. Rajapakse, Kouji Uda, Tomohiko Suzuki, Takeshi Agatsuma (2008). Development of a highly sensitive IgG-ELISA based on recombinant arginine kinase of Toxocara canis for serodiagnosis of visceral larva migrans in the murine model. Parasitology Research 103: 853-858.

Lalani Yatawara, Susiji Wickramasinghe, Mitsuru Nagataki, R. P. V. J. Rajapakse, Takeshi Agatsuma. (2007). Molecular characterization and phylogenetic analysis of Setaria digitata of Sri Lanka based on CO1 and 12S rDNA genes. Veterinary Parasitology 148:161-165.

Susiji Wickramasinghe, Kouji Uda, Mitsuru Nagataki, Lalani Yatawara, R.P.V.J. Rajapakse, Yoshiya Watanabe, Tomohiko Suzuki, Takeshi Agatsuma (2007). Toxocara canis: Molecular cloning characterization, expression and comparison of the kinetics of cDNA- derived arginine kinase. Experimental Parasitology 117:124-132.

L. Yatawara, S. Wickramasinghe, R. P. V. J. Rajapakse, R. R. M. L. R. Siyambalagoda, H. T. Le, Y. Watanabe, Y. Matsumoto, T. Agatsuma.  Morphological and Molecular identification of Sri Lankan Leishmania species based on kinetoplast minicircle DNA and cytochrome b gene from human isolates, 11th International Congress of Parasitology, August 6-11,2006, Glasgow, United Kingdom; proceedings: 641-645.

Wickramasinghe S, Yatawara L, Rajapakse RP, Agatsuma T(2009). Toxocara vitulorum (Ascaridida: Nematoda): mitochondrial gene content, arrangement and composition compared with other Toxocara species. Molecular Biochemical Parasitology166:89-92.

Wickramasinghe S, Yatawara L, Rajapakse RP, Agatsuma T(2009). Toxocara canis and Toxocara vitulorum: molecular characterization, discrimination, and phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial (ATP synthase subunit 6 and 12S) and nuclear ribosomal (ITS-2 and 28S) genes. Parasitology Research 104: 1425-1430.

Lalani Yatawara, Susiji Wickramasinghe, Mitsuru Nagataki , Misa Takamoto, Haruka Nomura, Yasunori  Ikeue, Yoshiya Watanabe, Takeshi Agatsuma (2009). Aureobasidium derived soluble branched (1,3-1,6) b-glucan (Sophy b-glucan) enhances natural killer activity in Leishmania amazonensis infected mice. Korean Journal of Parasitology 47(4): 345-351.

Yatawara M.D.M.L.D.K, Jayaweera T.S.P, Abeysekara A.W. A. S. Preliminary survey on up country dry zone buffaloes, 3rd Asian Buffalo Congress, March 2000, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Yatawara L, Wickramasinghe S, Rajapakse R.P.V.J, Siyambalagoda R.R.M.LR., Hoa Thanh Le, Watanabe Y, Matsumoto Y, Agatsuma T. Molecular characterization and identification of Sri Lankan Leishmania spp. based on kinetoplast minicircle DNA and cytochrome b gene from human isolates, 20 th IUBMB International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and 11th FAOBMB Congress, June 18-23, 2006, Kyoto, Japan.

Yatawara Lalani, Wickramasinghe Susiji, Rajapakse R.P.V.J, Siyambalagoda R.R.M.LR., Hoa Thanh Le, Watanabe Yoshiya, Matsumoto Yoshitsugu, Agatsuma Takeshi.  Morphological and Molecular identification of Sri Lankan Leishmania species based on kinetoplast minicircle DNA and cytochrome b gene from human isolates, XI th International Congress of Parasitology, August 6-11, 2006, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Yatawara L., Wickramasinghe S., Rajapakse R.P.V.J., Siyambalagoda R.R.M.L.R., H. T. Le, Watanabe Y., Matsumoto Y., Agatsuma T.  Morphological and Molecular identification of Sri Lankan Leishmania species based on kinetoplast minicircle DNA and cytochrome b gene from human isolates, XI th International Congress on Parasitology, August 6-11, 2006, Glasgow, United Kingdom; proceedings : p 641-645.

Wickramasinghe Susiji, Uda Koji, Nagataki Mitsuru, Yatawara Lalani, Rajapakse, R.P.V.J., Suzuki Tomohiko, Agatsuma Takeshi. Cloning and expression of Toxocara canis arginine kinase,  Southern Japan Parasitology Congress, November 12, 2006, Nagoya, Japan.

Yatawara Lalani, Susiji Wickramasinghe, Nagataki Mitsuru, Takamoto Misa, Yano Hiroko, Watanabe Yoshiya, Mizobuchi Shunji, Sasaguri Shiro, Agatsuma Takeshi.   Immunomodulatory effects of Sophy b-glucan in Leishmania amazonensis infection, 1 st International Symposium on infectious diseases and health sciences, November 23, 2006, Kochi Medical School, Oko, Nankoku city, Kochi.

Wickramasinghe Susiji, Uda Koji, Nagataki Mitsuru, Yatawara Lalani, Rajapakse, R.P.V.J., Suzuki Tomohiko, Agatsuma Takeshi. Identification and evaluation of phosphagen kinases of Ascaris suum and Toxocara canis as a novel antigen for the diagnosis of VLM syndrome in humans, 1 st International Symposium on infectious diseases and health sciences, November 23, 2006, Kochi Medical School, Oko, Nankoku city, Kochi.

Yatawara Lalani, Susiji Wickramasinghe, Nagataki Mitsuru, Takamoto Misa, Yano    Hiroko, Watanabe Yoshiya, Mizobuchi Shunji, Sasaguri Shiro, Agatsuma Takeshi.   Sophy b-glucan enhances natural killer activity and cytokine production in Leishmania amazonensis infection, 76 th Japanese Parasitology Congress, 29-30 March, 2007, Osaka, Japan.

Yatawara L, Wickramasinghe S, Nagataki M, Rajapakse R.P.V.J, Agatsuma T. Phylogenetic analysis of filarial worm Setaria digitata of Sri Lanka based on CO1 and 12s rDNA genes. The 21st International conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology, 19-23 August, 2007,Gent, Belgium.

Yatawara Lalani, Le Thanh Hoa, Wickramasinghe Susiji, Nagataki Mitsuru, Agatsuma Takeshi. Gene content and arrangement of L. major compared with L. tarentolae. 7th Kochi Medical School research meeting, 6-7, February 2008, Kochi, Japan.

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