Principle Investigator:  Prof. Tulika Prakash Srivastava

Current Positions:

Professor, School of Biosciences and Bioengineering @IIT Mandi

Associate Dean, International Relations @IIT Mandi

Chairperson, School of Biosciences & Bioengineering @IIT Mandi

Contact:

Office: Room no. 206, A4 building, 

South Campus, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi

Kamand, Distt. Mandi - 175005

Himachal Pradesh, India 

Email: tulika@iitmandi.ac.in

Ph: +91 1905 267140

Work experience

• Professor,  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, India

May 2023-Present

• Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Microbiome Sciences, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan. 

June 2023- Present

• Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, India

2017-2023

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, India

• July 2012 - Sept 2017

• Visiting Scientist, Laboratory for Integrated Bioinformatics, RIKEN, CIMS, Japan

July 2012 - March 2023

• Visiting Scientist, Ins fur Mikrobiologie, Univ Stuttgart, Germany 

October 2014 - December 2014

• Research Scientist, Lab. for MetaSystems Research & Bioinformatics, RIKEN, Japan 

October 2010 - July 2012

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Genomic Sciences Centre & MetaSystems Research Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan 

April 2006 - September 2010

• Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), CSIR, Delhi, India

August 2005 - March 2006

Education

• Ph.D. (Bioinformatics): 2000 - 2005, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), CSIR, Delhi, India

Thesis Title: Comparative Genomics and In Silico Functional Analysis of Prokaryotic Genomes.

• M.Sc. (Chemistry): 1998 - 2000, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India

• B.Sc. (Chemistry): 1995 - 1998, Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India.

Awards and Honors

• Received Ramalingaswamy Fellowship 2012 from Department of Biotechnology DBT) for five years.

• Received CSHL Young Scientist Award to attend CSHL Genome Informatics Meeting 2006 held in Hinxton, UK.

• Received HUGO Student Award to attend Human Genome Meeting 2005 held in Kyoto, Japan.

• First prize for poster presentation entitled "Comprehensive Peptide Signature Database (CoPS)" in the Annual Symposium in Biomedical Sciences, University of Delhi, April 2003.

Major responsibilities previously held

• Dean Faculty I/c

• Dean SRIC I/c

• Associate Dean (Recruitment)

• Associate Dean (Faculty Affairs)

• Founding Coordinator of BioX Center, IIT Mandi

• Coordinator of IIT Mandi - IIT Ropar - PGIMER Chandigarh consortium on Biomedical Imaging and Cancer Biology (BICB)

• Chair of Internal Complaints committee 

• Co-advisor of High-Performance Computing facility at IIT Mandi