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Ganesh Bagler, PhD

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India.

• E Mail: ganesh.bagler@gmail.com

Career Highlights

• A competent researcher with 7 years of post-PhD experience in Computational Biological research encompassing Structural Bioinformatics, Computational Modeling, Bioinformatics, Complex Systems and Networks.

• Well-versed with interdisciplinary skills with background in Physics, Biology, Computational Techniques and Mathematics.

• Experience in independent handling of research projects from scratch, proven by publication profile.

• Discovered a novel food pairing phenomenon in Indian cuisine.

• Established network-biology based integrative drug discovery platform.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, teaching and leadership skills.

  • Designed, executed and coded framework for graph-theoretical modeling of protein structures; Discovered an unique and generic property of protein structures, namely, assortativity.

• Conducted projects in the areas of Biology, Computer Science, Physics and Theoretical Astrophysics.

Research Interests

Complex Systems, Complex Networks, Systems Biology, Structural Bioinformatics, Integrative Network Biology, Computational Biology, Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Computational Neuroscience.

Experience

• • Scientist, Oct 2011 — Till Date

  • CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur. Assistant Professor, Academy for Scientific and Innovative Research.

  • Scientist (Fellow), Sept 2010 — Oct 2011

• CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur.

• Guest Scientist, Oct 2008 — Sept 2009 Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPI-MG), Berlin, Germany.

• Visiting Fellow (PostDoc), July 2007 — Sept 2008 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.

Education

• • Ph.D., Computational Biology (December 2006)

  • Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India. Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

  • M.Tech., Computational Techniques (January 2002)

  • School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.

  • M.Sc., Physics (May 1999)

  • Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, India.

  • B.Sc., Physics (April 1997)

  • Sangameshwar College, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India.

Other Academic Achievements

• Eklavya Scholarship by Directorate of Education, Maharashtra Government, India, 1997—1999.

• Junior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, Jan 2001.

  • Senior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, Jan 2003.

Honors and Awards

• Discovery of a novel food pairing phenomenon in Indian cuisine, that featured as an Emerging Technology in MIT Technology Review.

• Selected as a Speaker for “Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit” (TPSC), Nov 2006.

• Visited the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), USA after selection as a SFI International Fellow, March 2007.

• Selected for participation in the prestigious Complex Systems Summer School (Beijing, China, 2005) of Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA.

• Best Graduate-Student Seminar Award, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, 2003.

• Aptech Leadership Award, Aptech Computer Education, 1998.

  • Rajya Puraskar Award, A State-level Award by Bharat Scouts and Guides, India, 1992.

Peer Reviewer

Refereed for Bioinformatics, Europhysics Letters, Physica A and Fractals.

Publications

• Reena Yadav, Mayur Ghatge, Kirankumar Hiremath and Ganesh Bagler*, "Numerical studies of variablelung ventilation strategies", National Systems Conference, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer (2013).

• A Sarkar et al., "Proteomics potential and it scontribution to sustainable agriculture", Chapter 8, in 'Agroecology, Ecosystems and Sustainability', Ed N Benkeblia, 152-180, CRC Press (2015).

• S Peruman et. al., "Canpsaicin suppresses fibril formation of Type I collagen and increases tenden's stability", European Biophysical Journal, 44(1-2), (2015).

• Shikha Vashisht and Ganesh Bagler*, “An approach for the identification of targets specific to bone metastasis using cancer genes interactome and gene ontology analysis”, PLoS ONE (accepted, Oct 2012).

• Vinay Randhawa and Ganesh Bagler*, “Identification of SRC as a potent drug target and its novel leads, for Asthma, using integrative approach of protein interactome analysis and in silico drug discovery”, OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 16 (10) (In Press; May 2012).

• Arun Kumar, Som Dutt, Ganesh Bagler, Paramvir Singh Ahuja, Sanjay Kumar, “Engineering a thermo-stable superoxide dismutase functional at sub-zero to >50 °C, which also tolerates autoclaving”, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 2, 387, 1-8 (30 April 2012)

• Ganesh Bagler*, “Complex Network Models of Protein Structures—Structural correlates of biophysical properties”, Lambert Academic Publishing (Germany), ISBN: 978-3-8433-5860-6 (2010; 140 pages).

• Michael Lappe, Ganesh Bagler, Ionnis Fillipis, Henning Stehr, Jose M Duarte, and Sathyapriya Rajagopal, “Designing evolvable libraries using multi-body potentials”, Current Opinion in Biotechnology (COVER-PAGE ARTICLE), 20, 437—446 (2009).

• Ganesh Bagler and Somdatta Sinha, “Assortative mixing in Protein Contact Networks and protein folding kinetics”, Bioinformatics, 23, 14, 1760—1767 (2007).

• Ganesh Bagler* and Somdatta Sinha, “Network Properties of Protein Structures”, Physica A, 346, 27—33, (2005).

  • Ganesh Bagler*, “Analysis of Airport Network of India as a complex weighted network”, Physica A, 387, 12, 2972—2980 (2008) .

• Ganesh Bagler*, “Complex network view of performance and risks on airport networks”, Nova Science Publishers, USA, ISBN: 978-1-60692-393-1 (2009).

• Ganesh Bagler and Somdatta Sinha, “The Role of Host Migration on Host-Parasite Population Dynamics”, in Proceedings of the Second Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, 37—40, (2005).

• Hemant Dixit, Ganesh Bagler, Somdatta Sinha, “Modelling the host-parasite interaction”, in Proceedings of the First Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, 321—324, (2003).

• Ganesh Bagler, Wei-chao Chen, Jia-xin Cui, Sutirth Dey, W. Tyler Gibson, Vuk Milošević, Daniel Rosenbloom, and Jiang Zhang (in alphabetical order), “Non-verbal human communication under varying levels of restrictions: An empirical and computational investigation of Password and Gasekitomu games,” SFI CSSS Student Papers, Beijing (2005).

• Samraat Pawar, Oskar Burger, Brian Hallmark, Ganesh Bagler, Frank Wang, and Xue Fu, “Evolution of Food-web Networks in Fluctuating Environments,” SFI CSSS Student Papers, Beijing (2005).

Teaching, Research Supervision and Trainings

• MSc Project Dissertations:

-Daljeet Kaur Ahluwalia, MSc (Bioinformatics), GNDU

January 2011--May 2012

-Yuvraj Ghali, MSc (Bioinformatics), GNDU

January 2011--May 2012

• Research Trainings:

-Kanika Gupta, MSc(Bioinformatics), Panjab University, Chandigarh

-Ganesh Gupta, BSc(Mathematics), Shiv Nadar University, Delhi

• Organized and Coordinated the "Workshop on Network Biology" at CSIR-IHBT, 27-29 March 2012.