No. of Publications: 18

Google Scholar -   Citations: 409    h-index: 10      i10-index: 11

PhD Programme

• Position: PhD Scholar

Organization: Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, India - 121001

Period: Nov 2020 - Present

Experience

Position: ICAR - Young Professional II

Organization: ICAR - National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India - 110012

Period: Nov 2017 - Oct 2020 (3 years)

Specialization

• Bioinformatics 

  • Biological Databases

  • NGS Analysis (Genome, Transcriptome, Metagenome, Single Cell, etc.), 

  • Docking, Virtual Screening and MD Simulation

• Computer Science

  •  Database and Web-Server Development

  • Linux

  • R (Statistical Analysis and Visualization), Python, Shell scripting

  • Machine Learning (Scikit-Learn)

Databases/Servers Developed

RiceMetaSys (14.139.229.201/RiceMetaSys)

ClustergeneDB (14.139.229.201/ClustergeneDB)

EMSgardeN22 (14.139.229.201/EMSgardeN22)

RiceMetaSysB (14.139.229.201/RiceMetaSysB)

RiceMetaSys-HRG (14.139.229.201/RiceMetaSys/HRG)

PfPhospho (www.nii.ac.in/pfphospho.html)

PDBi - Biomolecular Structures in PDB from India (202.54.249.134/PDBi)

InTGS - Indian Tuberculosis Genomic Surveillance Consortium (intgs.nii.ac.in)

CovServer - Hosted at NII (Local server for Covid Nanopore Data Analysis)

Awards

Best Poster/Oral Presentation:

• • • Best Poster Presentation (Second Prize)

In: National Science Day 2025, Feb 28, 2025

Conducted by: BRIC-National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India.

• • • Best Poster and Oral Presentation (Second Prize)

In: Accelerating Biology 2025: Compute to Transcend, Jan 7-9, 2025

Conducted by: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Pune, India.

• • • Best Poster Presentation (First Prize)

In: National Symposium on Database Development and Biocuration (NSDDB 2018), March 6-7, 2018

Conducted by: Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India.

Membership in the Scientific Soceity

• Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery Society (BIDDS) - Life Member (https://bidds.org/)

Bachelor's Degree

Degree: B. Tech (Bioinformatics)

Year: 2013-2017

College: Agricultural College and Research Institute

University: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India 641003

Master's Degree

Degree: M. Sc (Bioinformatics)

Year: 2018-2020

College: Faculty of Natural Sciences

University: Jamia Millia Islamia - Central University, New Delhi, India 110025

Internship Program (Bachelor's)

Institute: ICAR - National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India 110012

Time Period: July 2016 to October 2016

Work Title: RiceMetaSys: A Web Database of Salt and Drought responsive genes in rice

Guide: Dr. Amitha CR Mithra SV, Scientist (SS), ICAR - NIPB, New Delhi

Bachelor's Degree Project

Work Title: Using Subtractive Genomics approach to identify potential drug targets for bacterial leaf blight disease in rice 

Guide: Mrs. N. Bharathi (Assistant Professor), DPMB&B, TNAU, Coimbatore

Master's Degree Project

Work Title: Genome Assembly and Annotation of upland rice cultivar Nagina 22 

Guide:   Dr. Amitha CR Mithra SV (Sr. Scientist), ICAR - NIPB, New Delhi (External Supervisor)

Dr. Taran Singh Barti (Assistant Professor), DCS, JMI, New Delhi (Internal Supervisor)

Publications

2025

• Pant, A., Srinivasan, J., Venkadesan, S., Sarkar, S., Babu, S., Mohanty, D., ... & Arimbasseri, G. A. (2025). Comprehensive Genomic insights into Mixta calida Isolated from the Faecal Sample of a Tuberculosis Patient in India. Data in Brief, 111983.

• Shweta Chaudhary, Mothe Sravya, Falak Pahwa, Sureshkumar V, Prateek Singh, Shivam Chaturvedi, Debasisa Mohanty, Debasis Dash, Ranjan Kumar Nanda 2025. Single-cell profiling of the lung immune cells of diabetes-tuberculosis comorbidity reveals reduced type-II interferon and elevated Th17 responses. eLife 14:RP106025  https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106025.1

• Ansari, A., Sachan, S., Ahuja, J., Venkadesan, S., Nikam, B., Kumar, V., ... & Gupta, N. (2025). Distinct features of a peripheral T helper subset that drives the B cell response in dengue virus infection. Cell Reports. (IF: 7.5)

2024

• Kumar, D., S. Venkadesan, R. Prabha, S. Begam, B. Dutta, D.C. Mishra, K.K. Chaturvedi, G.K. Jha, A.U. Solanke, and A.M. Sevanthi. 2024. "RiceMetaSys: Drought-miR, a one-stop solution for drought responsive miRNAs-mRNA module in rice."  Database 2024. doi: 10.1093/database/baae076. (IF: 3.4)

2023

• Malhotra, N., S. Khatri, A. Kumar, A. Arun, P. Daripa, S. Fatihi, S. Venkadesan, N. Jain, and L. Thukral. 2023. "AI-based AlphaFold2 significantly expands the structural space of the autophagy pathway."  Autophagy:1-20. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2238578. (IF: 13.3)

• Singh BK, Venkadesan S, Ramkumar MK, Shanmugavadivel PS, Dutta B, Prakash C, Pal M, Solanke AU, Rai A, Singh NK, Mohapatra T, Sevanthi AM. Meta-Analysis of Microarray Data and Their Utility in Dissecting the Mapped QTLs for Heat Acclimation in Rice. Plants. 2023; 12(8):1697. doi: 10.3390/plants12081697 (IF: 4.5 - Equal contributing first author)

2022

• Sidharthan, V.K., A.M. Sevanthi, S. Venkadesan, D. Diksha, and V.K. Baranwal. 2022. "Seasonal dynamics in leaf viromes of grapevines depicting leafroll syndrome under tropical condition."  Tropical Plant Pathology. doi: 10.1007/s40858-022-00524-x. (IF: 2.404)

• Pal, G., R. Bakade, S. Deshpande, V. Sureshkumar, S.S. Patil, A. Dawane, S. Agarwal, V. Niranjan, M.K. PrasannaKumar, and R.S. Vemanna. 2022. "Transcriptomic responses under combined bacterial blight and drought stress in rice reveal potential genes to improve multi-stress tolerance."  BMC Plant Biology 22 (1):349. doi: 10.1186/s12870-022-03725-3. (IF: 5.260)

• Gupta, P., S. Venkadesan, and D. Mohanty. 2022. "Pf-Phospho: a machine learning-based phosphorylation sites prediction tool for Plasmodium proteins."  Briefings in Bioinformatics. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbac249. (IF: 9.5)

• Ramkumar, M.K., E. Mulani, V. Jadon, V. Sureshkumar, S.G. Krishnan, S. Senthil Kumar, M. Raveendran, A.K. Singh, A.U. Solanke, N.K. Singh, and A.M. Sevanthi. 2022. "Identification of major candidate genes for multiple abiotic stress tolerance at seedling stage by network analysis and their validation by expression profiling in rice (Oryza sativa L.)."  3 Biotech 12 (6):127. doi: 10.1007/s13205-022-03182-7.  (IF: 2.893)

2021

• Sevanthi, A.M., S.K. Sinha, Sureshkumar, V., M. Rani, M.R. Saini, S. Kumari, M. Kaushik, C. Prakash, V. K, G.P. Singh, T. Mohapatra, and P.K. Mandal. 2021. "Integration of Dual Stress Transcriptomes and Major QTLs from a Pair of Genotypes Contrasting for Drought and Chronic Nitrogen Starvation Identifies Key Stress Responsive Genes in Rice."  Rice 14 (1):49. doi: 10.1186/s12284-021-00487-8.  (IF: 5.638)

• Kumar, V., P. Jain, S. Venkadesan, S.G. Karkute, J. Bhati, M.Z. Abdin, A.M. Sevanthi, D.C. Mishra, K.K. Chaturvedi, A. Rai, T.R. Sharma, and A.U. Solanke. 2021. "Understanding Rice-Magnaporthe Oryzae Interaction in Resistant and Susceptible Cultivars of Rice under Panicle Blast Infection Using a Time-Course Transcriptome Analysis."  Genes 12 (2):301.  (IF: 3.5)

2020

• • • Kaushik, M., S. Rai, S. Venkadesan, S.K. Sinha, S. Mohan, and P.K. Mandal. 2020. "Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Important Candidate Genes Related to Nutrient Reservoir, Carbohydrate Metabolism, and Defence Proteins during Grain Development of Hexaploid Bread Wheat and Its Diploid Progenitors."  Genes 11 (5):509.  (IF: 3.5)

2019

• • • Sureshkumar, V., B. Dutta, V. Kumar, G. Prakash, D.C. Mishra, K.K. Chaturvedi, A. Rai, A.M. Sevanthi, and A.U. Solanke. 2019. "RiceMetaSysB: a database of blast and bacterial blight responsive genes in rice and its utilization in identifying key blast-resistant WRKY genes."  Database 2019:baz015. doi: 10.1093/database/baz015. (IF: 5.8)

2018

• • • Sevanthi, A.M.V., P. Kandwal, P.B. Kale, C. Prakash, M.K. Ramkumar, N. Yadav, A.K. Mahato, V. Sureshkumar, M. Behera, R.K. Deshmukh, P. Jeyaparakash, M.K. Kar, S. Manonmani, R. Muthurajan, K.S. Gopala, S. Neelamraju, M.S. Sheshshayee, P. Swain, A.K. Singh, N.K. Singh, T. Mohapatra, and R.P. Sharma. 2018. "Whole Genome Characterization of a Few EMS-Induced Mutants of Upland Rice Variety Nagina 22 Reveals a Staggeringly High Frequency of SNPs Which Show High Phenotypic Plasticity Towards the Wild-Type."  Frontiers in Plant Science 9. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01179. (IF: 5.6)

    • Sinha, S.K., A.M. Sevanthi V., S. Chaudhary, P. Tyagi, S. Venkadesan, M. Rani, and P.K. Mandal. 2018. "Transcriptome Analysis of Two Rice Varieties Contrasting for Nitrogen Use Efficiency under Chronic N Starvation Reveals Differences in Chloroplast and Starch Metabolism-Related Genes."  Genes 9 (4):206. (IF: 3.5)

2017

• • • Sandhu, M., V. Sureshkumar, C. Prakash, R. Dixit, A.U. Solanke, T.R. Sharma, T. Mohapatra, and A.M. S. V. 2017. "RiceMetaSys for salt and drought stress responsive genes in rice: a web interface for crop improvement."  BMC Bioinformatics 18 (1):432. doi: 10.1186/s12859-017-1846-y. (IF: 3.328 - Equal contributing first author)

    • Rawal, H.C., S. Kumar, A. Mithra S.V., A.U. Solanke, D. Nigam, S. Saxena, A. Tyagi, Sureshkumar V., N.R. Yadav, P. Kalia, N.P. Singh, N.K. Singh, T.R. Sharma, and K. Gaikwad. 2017. "High Quality Unigenes and Microsatellite Markers from Tissue Specific Transcriptome and Development of a Database in Clusterbean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, L. Taub)."  Genes 8 (11):313.  (IF: 3.5)

Book Chapter

• • • Amitha Mithra SV, Solanke AU, Prakash C, Sureshkumar V., Ramkumar MK, Sandhu M, Shanmugavadivel PS (2018) Integrating expression data in rice: An effort towards deciphering biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. Proceeding of PSMB Edited by Ahmad J, Tomar RS and Tiwari S. pp. 9-13. (ISBN-978-93-5321-456-2)

    • Sevanthi A. M. V., Kale, P., Chandra Prakash, Ramkumar M. K., Yadav N., Sureshkumar V., Poli Y., Grover N., Behera M., Khandual A., Jeyaparakash P., Kar M. K., Muthurajan Raveendran, Manonmani S., Krishnan S. G., Mangrauthia S. K., Sarla N., Sheshshayee M. S., Mohapatra T., Singh A. K., Singh N. K., Sharma R. P. (2021) National repository of EMS induced mutants of an upland rice cultivar Nagina 22: progress update on characterization and utilization. Mutation breeding, genetic diversity and crop adaptation to climate change. (ISBN: 9781789249095)

Data/Sequence Submission

• • • NCBI - GEO - Accession: GSE147158 - Transcriptome Sequencing

    • NCBI - GEO - Accession: GSE136746 - Microarray Data

    • NCBI - GEO - Accession: GSE136672 - Transcriptome Sequencing

National Conferences

• • • S.V. Amitha Mithra, Amolkumar U. Solanke, Chandra Prakash, Sureshkumar V, Ramkumar MK, Manninder Sandhu, Shanmugavadivel PS. Integrating Expression data in Rice: An Effort towards deciphering biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. In: National Conference Current trends in Plant Science and Molecular Biology for Food Security and Climate Resilient Agriculture. February 15-16, 2018, Gwalior, India. 

    • Sureshkumar V, SV Amitha Mithra and Amolkuamr U. Solanke (2018). RiceMetaSys (Biotic Stress): A comprehensive database of rice blast and bacterial leaf blight disease responsive genes in rice. In: National Symposium on Database Development and Biocuration. March 6-7, 2018, New Delhi, India.(Best Poster Award) 

    • Prakash C, Sureshkumar V, Shanmugavadivel PS, Ramkumar MK, Amolkumar U Solanke and Amitha Mithra SV (2018). RiceMetaSys (HRG): An open source database of heat responsive genes and markers for comparative genomics and molecular breeding in rice for heat tolerance. In: National Symposium on Database Development and Biocuration. March 6-7, 2018, New Delhi, India. 

    • MK Ramkumar, V. Sureshkumar, Prashant B. Kale, Chandra Prakash, Nera Yadav, A. K. Singh, S. Gopalakrishnan, P.Jeyaprakash, M.K. kar, M.S. Sheeshayee, Satendra Kumar Mangrauthia, S. SenthilKumar, R. P. Sharma, N. K. Singh and S. V. Amitha Mithra (2018). Evaluation and expression profiling of stay-green mutants of upland rice cv. N22 under drought. In: National Genetics Congress. December 14-16, 2018, New Delhi, India. 

    • MK Ramkumar, V. Sureshkumar, Chandra Prakash, Neera Yadav, S. Gopalakrishnan, AK Singh, MK Kar, MS Sheshshyaee, Satendra Kumar Mangrauthiam, S Senthil Kumar, AK Singh, RP Sharma, NK Singh and SV Amitha Mithra (2019). NGS based TILLING of leaf senescence genes in stay-green mutantsof upland rice cv. Nagina22. In: Indian PlantScience Congress 2019, January 23-25, 2019, Chennai, India. 

    • Lalitha Hari Dharani D, Kavitha S, Sureshkumar V and Anandhi V (2019). TNRiceBase–Exhaustive and user-friendly genomics web portal for rice cultivars. In: Bioconcorrenza’19 National Level Technical Symposium, March 1-2, 2019, Coimbatore, India. 

International Conferences

• • • Amitha CR Mithra SV, Ashok K Singh, Chandra Prakash, Gopalakrishnan S., Jeyaprakash P., Meera Kumari Kar, NagendraK Singh, Neera Yadav, Padmini Swain, Prashant Kale, Rameshwar P. Sharma, M.K. Ramkumar, M. Raveendran, N. Sarla, Satendra Kumar Mangrauthia, M.S. Sheshashayee, V. Sureshkumar, Trilochan Mohapatra. National repository of rice ems mutants of an upland rice cultivar nagina22: progress update on characterization and utilization. In: International Symposium on Plant Mutation Breeding and Biotechnology. August 27-31, 2018, Vienna, Austria.