Speakers & Chairs
Director at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD)
India
Major research interest of Dr Thangaraj group has been in the field of human origin, health and disease. His group is interested in understand the complex origin and affinities of Indian populations, using the genomics variations of contemporary populations and ancient biological remains. His group is also interested in understanding the impact of endogamy on health and disease of South Asians. His other research focus is to find the molecular basis of; male infertility, cardiovascular diseases, sex determination, and mitochondrial disorders.
Professor at KU Leuven
Belgium
Prof. Toomas Kivisild is a renowned population geneticist. He graduated as a biologist and received his PhD in Genetics, from University of Tartu, Estonia, in 2000. Since then he has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Medicine, at Stanford University (2002-3), Estonian Biocentre (since 2003), as the Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu (2005-6), and as a Lecturer and Reader in Human Evolutionary Genetics in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge (2006-2018). From 2018 he is a professor in the Department of Human Genetics at KU Leuven and a senior Scientist at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu. Prof. Kivisild has focused in his research on questions relating global genetic population structure with evolutionary processes such as selection, drift, migrations and admixture. He coauthored the second edition of the textbook Human Evolutionary Genetics.
Director Institute of Genomics (University of Tartu)
Estonia
His main research concerns Genetics, Population genetics, Gene flow, Evolutionary biology and Ethnology. His research on Genetics often connects related areas such as Human evolution. His Population genetics study combines topics in areas such as Crania, Human migration and Old World. He interconnects Last Glacial Maximum and Beringia, Pleistocene in the investigation of issues within Gene flow. The various areas that he examines in his Evolutionary biology study include Archaeogenetics, Mitochondrial DNA, Denisovan and Reference genome. He has researched Ethnology in several fields, including Jewish diaspora, Judaism, Genetic structure and Demographic history.
Professor (Associate) at University of Padova
Italy
Dr Luca Pagani is currently working as Associate Professor in University of Padova, Italy. His main research topics include: Molecular Anthropology, Human population genomics, Ancient DNA, Computational genomics, Natural selection, Human Biodemography, Parallel computation.
University of Pavia
Italy
Alessandro Achilli is a Professor in the Department of Biology and Biotechnology "Lazzaro Spallanzani" from University of Pavia, Italy. His research is focused on Genetics, Mitochondrial DNA, Haplogroup, Evolutionary biology and Haplotype. His Mitochondrial DNA research includes themes of Phylogenetics and Phylogenetic tree. He has extensively worked on the peopling of South East Asia, Europe and America.
Dr. Monika Karmin, PhD
Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu,
Estonia
Dr Karmin is working as a Senior Scientist in the field of Human Evolutionary Genomics. Her work on the past population size of females and males gained much media attention. She mainly focuses on the South Asian and European population with special attention on Romas.
Assistant Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), UAE
Dr. Aashish Jha is an incoming Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), where he leads the Genetic Heritage Group. He completed his BA and PhD from UC Berkeley and University of Chicago respectively, and his postdoctoral research from Stanford University. He integrates Genomics, Statistics, and Machine Learning in Metagenomic Data Analysis. He is interested in understanding how gut microbiomes develop in humans, influence of urbanization on human gut microbiomes, and their effect on health.
Conservation Genetics
Scientist at Zoological survey of India
India
Dr Thakur research interests lie at the interface between wildlife ecology and population genetics theory to investigate population differentiation and identify the genetic mechanisms of adaptation. He is keen to explore the genetic consequences of species reintroduction programs, the use of disregarded genetic diversity in the applied wildlife management and conservation programs.
Principal Scientist, Systems Genomics at Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita University, Kerala
India
A Ph.D. in Systems Biology from Aalborg University, Denmark., Prashanth N Suravajhala went on to gain more than 7 years of postdoctoral experience across four different laboratories. Prash worked for the Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur on his return to India where he successfully led three projects in the areas of systems genomics of rare diseases and next-generation sequencing analysis of cancers and diabetes. He has an interest in exploring the known unknown regions in the human genome, primarily working on the top-down systems biology approaches of hypothetical proteins. Over the last eight years, he has developed an interest in long noncoding RNAs in humans, elucidating the mechanisms underpinning small molecular interactions through clinical exomes. His group has benchmarked pipelines and developed methods for systems genomic integration. He is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Genetics/Systems Biology, Bio-Protocol, Biomolecules, and BMC Medical Genomics. He strongly advocates open access and open science.
Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu Estonia
Born in North-Indian state Uttar Pradesh, Ajai Kumar Pathak is a Population Geneticist currently residing in Estonia, working at the Genomics Institute of the University of Tartu in the Faculty of Science and Technology. Ajai Kumar Pathak defended his doctoral thesis in molecular biology entitled “Delineating genetic ancestries of people of the Indus Valley, Parsis, Indian Jews and Tharu Tribe” in the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. His thesis is the 5th in a series of PhD theses, addressing genetics of population history of the South Asian peoples, prepared in in the Chair of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, and he is the 14th Indian student who has been awarded with a doctoral degree by the University of Tartu since Estonia regained its independence.
Professor (Assistant) at University of Calcutta
India
His research interest lies in understanding the Modern Human Origin and Peopling of the World. His team also works to identify the changes in the genome corresponding to the immediate environment and investigate the medical implications on human genetic diversity among the Indian populations. He also deals with the studies of fauna of the Darjeeling Hill Region using molecular tools.
Lecturer at The Open University
United Kingdom
The area of his research is Statistical Genetics. His research interests on human genetics can be split into two major avenues - Population genetics of admixed human populations, such as Latin America and South Asia, and the genetics of human appearance and normal physical variation, such as facial morphology or pigmentation. His study deals with genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and building prediction models for forensic reconstruction. He also studies signals of natural selection and evolution, such as the evolution of light skin in Eurasia. A key focus of his work deals with increasing the diversity of genetics research, by looking at other diverse human populations outside of the Eurocentric emphasis in most GWAS studies.
Dr. Manvendra Singh, PhD
Max Plank Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Science Germany
Dr. Manvendra Singh is currently Assistant Professor and leading a computational biology group at the clinical neuroscience department at the Max-Planck institute for multidisciplinary sciences. We investigate various human neurological disorders, aiming to resolve the “give-and-take” interactions between the neurons and HERVs. My research interests cover a broad span of evolution, genetics, and genomics to uncover the mechanisms underlying the biological significance of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) in human health and disease. We dominantly use single-cell biology, computational and mathematical techniques overlaid with genetic and epigenetic functional experiments to carry out our research.
Prof. Manjunath B Joshi, PhD
Department of Ageing Research at the Manipal School of Life Sciences.
Dr. Manjunath B Joshi completed his doctoral and post-doctoral studies from Basel University, Basel, Switzerland and presently working as Professor in Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Research team of Dr. Joshi aims to understand cellular and signalling mechanisms at the interface of inflammation and metabolism in neutrophils in the context of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and its complications. The team examines how alterations in immuno-metabolic axis influence formation of neutrophil extracellular traps and contributes to T2D associated recurrent infections and vascular diseases. Other research interests of lab involve in understanding crosstalk between inflammation (IL-6) and epigenetic mechanisms (DNA methylation) in regulating pathological angiogenesis in T2D and breast tumors. The lab has also set up a mass spectrometry facility for metabolomics analysis.
Dr. Dhandapany Perundurai, PhD
InStem Bangalore
India
The major areas of his research interest are Cardiomyopathies, Disease Genetics, and Bioinformatics. The long-term goals of his group are to explore new genes, mechanisms, and relevant drugs that have a significant clinical and curative impact on curative impacts on Cardiomyopathies.
Dr. Eaaswarkhanth Muthukrishnan, PhD
New York University, Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
His research interests include Human Genomic Variations, Adaptive Significance and its impact to differential Health Risks. He studies the fine-scale genetic structure and genetic history of human population groups, especially Middle-Eastern and Asian. He also focuses on natural selection and local adaptation in populations inhabiting different environmental conditions.
Dr. Ankit Srivastava,PhD
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
India
The major research areas of his interest are Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Biology, Forensic Physical Science, Physical Chemistry, Forensic Toxicology, and DNA Typing. His current research focuses on Disease Genetics and Transcriptomics.
Dr. R.A.C.R Ranasinghe, PhD
University of Colombo
Sri Lanka
I am presently working as a Scientist, at the Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IBMBB), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am mainly engaged with human mitochondrial and Y-chromosome research with contemporary population aspects, cancer studies, and ancient DNA studies. The vibrant environment at the IBMBB diversifies my research interests with a few international collaborations. My research interest is mainly focused on the population studies of uniparental genetic material (mitochondrial DNA& Y) of contemporary ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. Apart from that, I am currently working on the identification of somatic variants in mitochondrial DNA among breast cancer patients. The idea of exploring the field of ancient DNA study opened my mind to investigating some archaeological materials to construct lineages through the genetic investigation of pre-historic people. In recent years, I have mainly focused on profound studies of autosomal and mitochondrial genetics while extending my research towards Next-Generation Sequencing, including genome-wide analysis and whole genome analysis of contemporary populations and Adivasi groups in Sri Lanka.
Dr. J S Sehrawat, PhD
University of Punjab
India
The major research areas of his interest include Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Biology, Odontology and Osteology, Forensic Biology, and Ancient DNA studies. He has research collaborations with Cranfield Forensic Institute, Swindon (UK), Max Planck Institute of Human History, Germany, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, and IIT Roorkee for Biological Profiling of thousands of bones and teeth recovered from an abandoned well at Ajnala (Amritsar, India).
Dr. Doron M. Behar, PhD
Founder and CEO, Igentify
Israel
A doctor of medicine, who also holds a doctorate in population genetics, Doron M. Behar is a scientist of significant achievement and an entrepreneur of substantial accomplishment. His academic career extends from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, the country’s oldest and most prestigious university, to specialization programs inInternal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center to Medical Genetics at the Raphael Recanati Genetics Institute. Dr. Behar is also the former Chief Science Officer of Gene by Gene Ltd., a web-based source of genetic testing for consumers. His expertise further various aspects of mass genotyping, including regulation, privacy, genetic analysis, quality assurance, and more.
Dr. Erwan Pennarun
University of Tartu
Estonia
Dr Pennarun has worked on the genetics of various regions of the World. He identified back migration to Africa; genetic components of Afghani populations and the genetic history of the largest tribal population of South Asia, the Gond.
Dr. Ranajit Das, PhD
Yenepoya Research Centre, Karnataka
India
He is population geneticist by training with expertise in biostatistics, evolutionary bioinformatics and molecular evolution.
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Kerala
India
Prof. Banarjee is presently working as a scientist at Human Molecular Genetics laboratory of Neurobiology division in Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He had been the President of Indian society of Human Genetics and also been the Vice President of Association of DNA Fingerprinting and Associated Technologies. His main area of research involves deciphering molecular pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders employing genetics, pharmacogenetics, immunogenetics and epigenetics approaches.
Dr. Francesco Montinaro, PhD
University of Bari
Italy
Dr. Francesco Montinaro is a Research Scientist at the Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and environment of the University of Bari. His research focused on investigating past demographic events in different human populations by analysing modern and ancient genetic data, and assessing their impact on modern-day populations. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of the BioSud project, aiming to dissect the genetic role of complex behaviours related to substance use, abuse, and addiction in Southern Italy.
Dr. Swarkar Sharma, PhD
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu
Dr. Swarkar Sharma is an Assistant Professor working in the Department of Biotechnology at the University.. His specialization is in the field of Human Genetics.Working towards understanding ancestral migration history and population structure of Population of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Undertaken research challenges targeting rare genetic disorders not yet characterized or with very less information due to limited clinical resources and unique population structure in the region
Dr. Manjil Hazarika, PhD
Department of Archaeology, Cotton University, Guwahati
India
Dr. Manjil Hazarika is Assistant Professor and Head (i/c) at the Department of Archaeology of Cotton University in Guwahati. He has been working on the archaeology of the Northeast India and eastern Himalayan region for the last 15 years. After completing an MA in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology from Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute in Pune in 2005 with first class first position, Hazarika joined the International Master in Quaternary and Prehistory at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain under the Erasmus Mundus Master Program financed by the European Union. In 2014, Dr. Hazarika completed PhD from the Bern University in Switzerland and was awarded the highest accolade of Summa cum laude (with highest honour).
Dr. Vikas Bansal, PhD
Deutsches Zentrun fur Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen Tübingen
Germany
Currently, Dr Bansal is head of the Biomedical Data Science group established at German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)-Tübingen in 2019 and funded by the Career Development Fellowship (CDF). Prior to this, he completed his PhD from Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin funded by the prestigious Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher Fellowship (2012-2015). After that he broadened and deepened my expertise in a number of postdoctoral positions (2016-2019) at Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen and Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg. He had been curious and investigating biological questions independently using high throughput sequencing data and computational models. His group is interested in producing, integrating and discovering patterns in large multi-omics datasets to extend the understanding of transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms. Integration of different sequencing data types provides an opportunity to investigate biological pathways at multiple layers like genotype, chromatin and transcript levels. We (together with collaborators) use iPSCs, human tissues and mouse models to generate cell-type specific multi-omics data (like scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq) to better understand diseases related to the brain and nervous system, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Parkinson's disease (PD).
Prof. Priyankoo Sarmah, PhD
IIT Guwahati
India
He is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, and is actively involved in the Center for Linguistic Science and Technology at IITG. His research interests are phonetics, speech analysis, speech perception and speech technology development, and he is passionate about production and perception of tones and has worked on tones in Bodo, Dimasa, Mizo, Paite, Poula, Rabha and Tiwa. He is also interested in vowel production and perception. Recently, he has been working on sociophonetics of Assamese and Angami
Prof. P P Majumder, PhD
NIBMG, Kalyani
India
Professor Majumder has made significant contributions to human genetics and evolution using statistical, molecular genetic and anthropological methods. He has devised innovative paradigms and statistical methods for solving biological problems related to modes of inheritance of complex human traits and mapping genes underlying such traits. He applied these methods to data on various common disorders and their quantitative precursor states, that has resulted in a clear understanding of the genetic bases of such disorders. He was one of the early human geneticists to recognize the importance of studying genetic structures of ethnic populations using molecular genetic tools to discover genes conferring susceptibilities to various common diseases. His work on genetic diversity of ethnic Indian populations has resulted in a clear reconstruction of the processes of peopling of the Indian subcontinent, which have had major impacts on the design of studies for mapping disease genes. Majumder is a founding member of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society and was the Founding Chair of its ethical, legal and social issues committee. He has served on committees of the UNESCO for drafting guidelines and declarations pertaining to the human genome and human genetics. Majumder has immensely contributed to capacity-building in human and statistical genetics in India by sustained organization of workshops, summer and winter schools. He has served on the Executive Committee of the International Human Genome Diversity Programme, and on many national committees. He is a Member of the Human Genome Organization and Member, INSA Council (2006-08).
Dr. Niraj Rai, PhD
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences
India
Dr. Niraj Rai is a Scientist C and Group Head of the Ancient DNA Lab at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow. He is a molecular biologist by training, specializing in the use of next-generation sequencing data to study human population histories. He has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Dr. K. Thangaraj at CSIRCCMB, Hyderabad. He has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has received Young Investigator Award from “International Society of Applied Biology”, Croatia, 2015. He has also received Venkatchalla Gold Medal Award for the Year 2019, Young Scientist Award in “36th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Human Genetics” at Manipal University, Manipal, India, 2011 and UKIERI visiting fellowship award and spent 11 Months at University of Cambridge, UK (2007-2008). He has qualified GATE, CSIR-NET and AICEE-JNU. He has supervised 22 post graduate students, and six Ph.D. Students from Institutes in Pune, Chicago, Sri Lanka and Lucknow. He has organised an International workshop on An Integrative Platform for Research on the Reconstruction of the Past in India. He has delivered numerous talks about his work and expertise at various conferences and events. He has more than 30 researches authored and co-authored and published in journals of national as well as international repute.
Dr. Neeru Gandotra, PhD
Yale School of Medicine
USA
She has more than twenty years of research experience, ten of which are in clinical research, in the field of molecular biology, population genetics, oncology, cardiology, rare disease diagnosis and precision health in developing new tools and genomic approaches for molecular screening and diagnostics and the study of disease pathogenesis.
She did her postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and since then her work has been at the forefront of basic science and clinical research to understand disease mechanisms and find ways to improve diagnosis using various molecular biology tools at the Yale School of Medicine. Currently, she is with the Department of Genetics working at the interface of clinical diagnostics with expertise in developing end-to-end molecular assays and translating them to clinical and forensic laboratories. This includes collaborating across universities, industry, and various governmental and clinical organizations within and outside of the US. She is an inventor and has recently got a US patent for a bed-to-bedside assay developed to identify a specific variant in a heart disease gene.
Dr. Florin Mircea Iliescu, PhD
Division of Biological Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Mircea Iliescu has a PhD in Human Genetics and evolution from the University of Cambridge, UK (2016). Throughout his research career he has travelled from India to Chile to study the evolutionary genetics of human diversity across different human populations. His research is focused on the evolution of diversity for traits such as skin colour and immunity among populations with a complex admixture history. Mircea is often present in the public arena in his home country Romania where he offers talks for people from all walks of life on the beautiful and fascinating world of genetics.
Dr. Gazi Nurun Nahar Sultana, PhD
Chief Scientist at University of Dhaka
Bangladesh
Dr Sultana is a leading genomic Scientist of Bangladesh. Her group is exploring Bangladesh's demographic history, including the recessive diseases in consanguinity marriages.
Dr. Anshuman Mishra, PhD
Translational Research and Sustainable Healthcare Management, Institute of Advanced Materials, IAAM,
Sweden
His research interest is Healthcare research, Disease management and Translational Healthcare products. My expertise ranges from biotechnology, genetics (population, evolutionary, clinical, immunogenetics etc.) and Infectious disease research. I am involved in translational healthcare research and management project.
University of Bern
Switzerland
Prof. George van Driem has conducted field research in the Himalayas since 1983. In Bern, he currently runs the research programme Strategische Zielsetzungen im Subkontinent Objectives in the Subcontinent which aims to analyse and describe endangered and poorly documented languages in South Asia. This programme of research is effectively a diversification of the Himalayan Languages Project, which he directed at Leiden University, where he held the chair of Descriptive Linguistics until 2009. He and his research team have documented over a dozen endangered languages of the greater Himalayan region, producing analytical grammars and lexica and recording morphologically analysed native texts. His interdisciplinary research in collaboration with geneticists has led to advances in the reconstruction of Asian ethnolinguistic prehistory. Based on linguistic palaeontology, ethnolinguistic phylogeography, rice genetics and the Holocene distribution of faunal species, he identified the ancient Hmong-Mien and Austroasiatics as the first domesticators of Asian rice and published a theory on the homelands and prehistoric dispersal of the Hmong-Mien, Austroasiatic and Trans-Himalayan linguistic phyla. His historical linguistic work on linguistic phylogeny has replaced the unsupported Sino-Tibetan hypothesis with the older, more agnostic Tibeto-Burman phylogenetic model, for which he proposed the neutral geographical name Trans-Himalayan in 2004. He developed the Darwinian theory of language known as Symbiosism, and he is author of the philosophy of Symbiomism.
Prof. Vasant Shinde
CSIR-CCMB
Hyderabad, India
He is popularly known as 'Rakhigarhi Man'. His main work is understanding the genesis of the basic sciences and technologies through archaeological sources. The archaeological sources are generated through field investigations such as systematic exploration and excavation. Besides, understanding the process of peopling in South Asia and cultural dispersal through the ages with the help of archaeogenetic records and scientific investigations is the objective of the recent research. Artefacts and ecofacts collected systematically from various archaeological sites are subjected to various scientific analyses such as Strontium, Stable Isotope, Starch Grain, Lipid profile, etc. to understand ancient diet, health and migration.
Prof. Mohammed S Mustak, PhD
Mangalore University
India
Mohammed S Mustak is a Professor and Chairman at the Department of Applied Zoology, Mangalore University, Mangalore, India. His specialisation is on population and evolutionary genetics. His area of interest to work on a debatable question such as the Historic Civilization of South West of India, especially, the coastal population of Lakshadweep, Kerala and Karnataka, which has been a mystery for over a century. He has done DNA analysis on Lakshadweep and Karnataka populations to understand their origin, admixture and settlement and affinity towards regions of the world. Besides this, his interest also focuses on understanding the genetics of cardiovascular diseases in the south Indian population.
Prof. V R Rao, PhD
Osmania University,
Hyderabad, India
Prof. V. R. Rao taught in the department of Anthropology, University of Delhi from December 2009 to January 2016. He taught Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Molecular Anthropology to postgraduates. He has been honored with awards like the Panchanan Mitra Memorial award, 2009; S S Sarkar Memorial Award, 2005; Presidential Award, 2003; Young Scientist Award from the Indian Society of Human Genetics, 1981. He is ex-President and member of Executive Council of the Indian Society of Human Genetics and member of Executive Council, Association for the promotion of DNA Finger printing and other Technologies (ADNAT). He has also served as the deputy Director & Head of Office of the Central Regional Center Anthropological Survey of India, Nagpur, M .S. from 1993- 2001 and Director In Charge of the Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, W.B. from 2003-2009. He has successfully steered numerous research projects and is currently investigating projects on Next Generation Whole Genome Targeted Sequencing of 25 Candidate Genes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2013-2015) funded by the Dept of Biotechnology (DBT); Intra-geneic variation of candidate genes in Depression and Suicide ideation association study in Indian population(2013-2016) funded by the Dept. of Science & Technology (DST), and Anthropological Study of High Risk Community Lohanas of Gujarat for β- Thalassaemia: Genetic Heterogeneity and Origin of 619 bp deletion mutation (with components of ancestry based carrier screening and genetic counseling of affected families for Prevention(2014-2017) funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
Prof. D D Dubey, PhD
Veer Bahadur Singh Jaunpur University
India
His research interests includes DNA Replication and is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Dr. Dharani Dhar Dubey is the member of many international affiliations. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities and has authored of many research articles/books related to DNA Replication.
Prof. Arup R Bandyopadhyay, PhD
University of Calcutta
India
Prof. Arup Ratan Bandyopadhyay is the Former Head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, and was the was President of Anthropological and Behavioral Sciences section of the Indian Science Congress in its centenary year, and has published more than 100 anthropological research articles in national and international journals on evolutionary biology, forensic anthropology, dental anthropology, public health in relation to medical genetics, cytogenetic and anthropometry of non-communicable disease, dermatoglyphics in medical and psychiatric disorders, and population genetics and human rights issues.
Dr. Sonam Spalzin, PhD
Archaeological Survey of India, Ladakh
India
Dr. Spalzin is an eminent Archaelogist working with Archaeological Survey of India known for her contributions in the field of Archaeology. She has undertaken many field investigations at important archaeological sites of India and took part in dozens of excavations on pre-historic to historic periods across the country and in her own region Ladakh. She is also trained for structural, chemical and heritage conservation , art and architecture and differe nt aspect of culture. Through her field work she has brought many archaeological sites of Leh and Kargil to the map. She is also the founder of Himalayan Institute of Archaeological and Allied Science, Ladakh, India.
Prof. Radha Chaube, PhD
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
India
Prof. Radha Chaube is presently working as Professor in the Department of Zoology, Institute of Science of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She obtained her Doctoral degree from the Banaras Hindu University. She was a recipient of many National and International fellowships awards like CSIR, JSPS,visiting Post –Doc Scientist INRA, France, INSA,Indo-Australia etc. Her work is primarily in the field of neuroendocrinology and associated ecotoxicology but also extends to various other fields. She is life member of various National and International professional bodies like SRBCE, IBRO, INF etc. recently she has been honoured with the WISER (Women involved in Science & Engineering Research) award by the prestigious IGSTC Indo-German Science & Technology Centre).