Ayaluru Murali is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University, India. He received his PhD (2000) from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India. Before taking up the position at Pondicherry University he had worked as post doc in USA. He had about 28 years of research experience. He has 67 publications (h-index: 31). His research interests include cryoEM, single particle analysis, and structural bioinformatics. Currently, he is actively working on understanding the mechanistic aspect phage polymerases, proteins associated with viral trafficking in plants and virulent factors of pathogenic fungi using various bioinformatics approaches related to protein modelling and dynamics.