MPhil. B Batch
Amjesh R.
Amjesh R hails from Kariavattom in Thiruvananthapuram district. He is currently working as a lecturer at the Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala. He is also doing his PhD on part time basis. He holds an M.Phil degree in Bioinformatics. He was a student of second M.Phil batch of Centre for Bioinformatics. He acquired a post graduation in biotechnology from Bangalore University and bachelor’s degree in Zoology from Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram He has in-depth knowledge in molecular docking and homology modeling. He has done an excellent theoretical model for the structure of Hepatitis C Virus NS3 protease (PDB id: 2ijs). His present PhD work is on drug discovery against Hepatitis C virus. He is also guiding several project students from various educational institutes in India. He has also demonstrated a great potential and dynamism in organizing various seminars and events at the centre for bioinformatics. He is very friendly, helpful and sincere to his team members. One patent is pending in his name, he loves cars and bikes!
Arun K.S.
Arun K.S., one of the bright and resourceful persons of the centre, is from Kollam District. He took his B.Sc degree in Computer Science from Uty of Kerala and his M.Sc degree in Computer Science from Calicut University. After completing his Master degree, Arun enjoyed his work exposure in IT Industry as a software engineer for one year. He also worked as lecturer at Fatima Matha National College, Kollam, where he imparted his teaching flavors. He also holds an MPhil in Bioinformatics from this centre. Since 2007, he is a part-time researcher in Computational Biology in CBi. He is also working as a lecturer in the Centre. His research is on bio sequence information studies. Arun loves reading, stamp collection and science fiction. He detests spending time idly. He is very friendly, so simple and has a good observation skill.
Aswathi B.L.
Aswathi B.L., a very familiar anchor to television audience is from the capital city of Kerala. Aswathi is one among the bright, sincere and hardworking persons in the centre. She had done her Graduation in Physics from Univeristy of Kerala and Masters Degree in Computer Science from M. G. University. She also holds an MPhil degree in Bioinformatics from this centre. Aswathi worked as IT Coordinator at State Institute of Education Management and Training. She was a lecturer at University Institute of Technology (UIT), Palayam for one year. She also worked as Software Engineer at Information Kerala Mission. Aswathi, likes traveling, shopping and reading books. Her research area is Computational Biology.
Jacob Bijo Daniel
Jacob Bijo Daniel likes to be addressed as 'Bijoy'. The land of the ancient emperor Mahabali (all who from Mavelikara boasts their town to be the land of Mahabali; and they ridicule all the other claims of similar respect : http://www.mavelikara.org/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavelikara) has offered him the basics; and then another traditionally and socially muscular village - from the other side of the state - Tavanur, beckoned to show what it has saved for him. KCAET, on the banks of Nila, the only engineering college of Kerala Agricultural University and named after the verteran freedom fighter, being the Alma-mater, gave him the confidence to face a tougher world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavanur, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCAET). He had his masters in Soil Water Engineering and bachelors in Agricultural Engineering - both from Kerala Agricultural University. He did his MPhil in 2005 (B-batch). He was very happy to do his research on venominformatics at IISc, Bangalore (passion for the venomous animals and insects like bees and scorpions, huh?). CBi would consider him as the sheep went down the wrong way, or as a misfit ! He couldn’t make the most of of his M.Phil from this centre; he went back to his original profession to make a living. Now, he is an Irrigation Engineer in Al Ryum group of companies,UAE - so as to fulfill the share of his family to the Gulf land. Earlier, he worked as the Head of the Department (Natural Resources Management) in Bodhana,Thiruvalla Social Service Society where he had the opportunity to do research on honeybee rearing, honey processing, organic agriculture etcetera; he could also set up a bio-research laboratory to improve the scope of organic agriculture and allied social reformation within the environment of Bodhana. He always claimed himself to be one of the rarest breed of engineers who gained multi-disciplinary insight, even before coming to CBi. Still he was amazed by the old school techniques followed in CBi, and still ACHU is his favorite but enigmatic guru. His hobbies include digging the net for small utilities that make simple tasks simpler; or complex tasks even more complex!! Learning new software (even if it is of no direct benefit) gives him immense pleasure - and pain for his family by engulfing most of their leisure time. Sci-Fi thrillers, stamp collection, nonsense fictions, several indoor games.
Bindu A.
Bindu A. hails from Karingannoor, Kollam district is a very sweet person who enjoys hardworking. She believes in hard work pays well. That’s true in her case as she qualified CSIR-UGC fellowship. She was teaching for the last one year at National College, Manacaud, Trivandrum.Currently she is a full time Research Scholar at cbi. Her area of research is Gene Silencing using miRNA and siRNA under the supervision of Dr. Sugunan V.S. she has her Post Graduation in Genetics and Plant Breeding, After completed her P.G, she joined the centre for M.Phil. in Bioinformatics. She adores the gifts of nature and takes extreme care in conserving it. She enjoys music and also cools well. She is a vantage for this centre.
Minta Thomas
Minta Thomas is a PhD scholar in Bioinformatics Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, K. U. Leuven, Belgium. She had done her Bachelors in Computer Application from Marian College, Kuttikanam, M. G University and Masters in Computer Science from School Of Computer Science, M. G University. She also holds M.Phil in Bioinformatics from Centre For Bioinformatics Kerala University. She did her Mphil thesis work titled ‘Comparative study of structural features of Non-coding RNA’ under the guidance of Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has about 2-years teaching experience in Bioinformatics. Her area of interest is in computational biology, especially in Bioinformatics Algorithm Development.
Pravi Vidyadharan
Pravi Vidyadharan resides at Vakkom, a small village in Thiruvananthapuram district. She has done her UG in Zoology, PG in Biotechnology and M. Phil in Bioinformatics. She has also done her Ph. D in Biotechnology. She has served as project fellow and senior research fellow in RGCB (TVM) and CTCRI (TVM) respectively. At present she is working as Junior Scientist in Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom.
Dr. Roshin Anie Jose
Dr. Roshin Anie Jose is a native of Thekumbhagom, Thodupuzha. She did her graduation and post graduation from College of Veterinary & Animal Science, Mannuthy, Thrissur. Then joined to Centre for Bioinformatics for M.Phil degree in Bioinformatics during the year 2006. After completing M.Phil she returned to her job as a veterinary doctor. Now she is in Botswana with her parents and her son Amith, a cute little boy. She spends her extra time for reading, listening music, and Cooking. She likes to enjoybeauty of nature, foreign trips, traveling and dislikes sitting idle.
Sheeja S.
Sheeja S., sincere, laughter, affection, hard work –Hailing from Thirumala, in Thiruvananthapuram, she did her B.S in Zoology from Govt. Womens College, Thiruvananthapuram and M.Sc in Aquatic Biology and Fisheries from Kariavattom campus.. Her M.Phil in Bioinformatics is from this very centre. She spends her extra time for hearing Music, Watching TV. Currently she is working as a medical transcriptionist, Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram.
Sreeja S.
Sreeja S. hails from Neyyattinkara, Thiruvananthapuram. She took her M.Phil in Bioinformatics from Cenre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala in 2008 and Post Graduation in Computer Science, from Regional campus, Calicut University and took her B.Sc in Computer Science from Govt. College. Currently she is working as a computer science teacher. She enjoys listening to music, and cooking.
Suresh Kumar U.
Suresh Kumar U. is from Pappanamcode Thiruvananthapuram District. He took his B.Sc and M.Sc degree in Botany from Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram. He also holds an MPhil in Bioinformatics from this centre. Currently working at the regional facility for dna fingerprining at Rajiv Gandhi centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram. Work includes dna profiling for human identification and forensic analysis. He is very friendly, so simple and has a good observation skill.
Swapna Sukumaran
Swapna Sukumaran is a person who loves to enjoy her life doing the things she likes and with the people she adores. Although a true malayalee at heart she was raised in Gujarat where she completed her B.Sc in Biochemistry along with Vocational Biotechnology in St. Xavier’s college under Gujarat University. Following her love with applied sciences she reached Coimbatore where she gained her Masters in Biotechnology under Bharathiar University passing top in class. Following marriage, she settled down in Thiruvananthapuram and pursued MPhil in Bioinformatics from our very own CBI.. She was recently blessed with a baby girl and after that she has moved to Qatar where she is enjoying her time with her husband and seeing her little darling growing by the day. But all this will not deter her from working in the near future. Whenever she gets time, she tries to brush up her curricular memory and dreams of the day when she will start turning her dream into reality.
