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PERSONAL DETAIL

Citizenship: Indian

E-mail: kirtandave11[AT]gmail.com

Phone number: (+91) 999 831 1641

EDUCATION

Nov     2015        Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. Sardar Patel University, India.  

Jun     2009        M.Sc. in Bioinformatics. Sardar Patel University, India

April   2007        B.Sc. in  Biotechnology. Sardar Patel University, India

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Bioinformatics, system biology, machine learning, network biology, algorithms development, biological data integration, data visualization and data mining 

 

POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT

2023 – Present   Assistant Professor at Parul Institute of Applied Sciences , Faculty of Applied Science, Parul University 

2023 – 2023  Assistant Professor at Dept of Computer science and Bioscience, Faculty of Engineering , Marwadi Universit

2021 – 2023.   Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics. School of Science ,GSFC University, Gujarat, India

2015 – 2021.  Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics. Center For Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Technology (CISST). Sardar Patel University, India

2012 - 2015. CSIR- Senior Research fellow. G. H. Patel Post Graduate Department of Computer Science and Technology (GDCST), Sardar Patel University, India

2014. Software Developer Intern for Google Summer of Code 2014. National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB), USA

2011 – 2012. Teaching Assistant in Bioinformatics. Ashok & Rita Patel Institute of Integrated Study & Research in Biotechnology & Allied Sciences.New V.V .Nagar, India

2010 – 2011. Project Assistant. CSIR-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute. Bhavnagar, India

2009 – 2010. Research Project trainee.Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM). Gandhinagar, India  

PUBLICATIONS -  Google Scholar h-index = 5

Peer reviewed journals

1. Marvin Martens, Rob Stierum, Emma L. Schymanski, Chris T. Evelo, Reza Aalizadeh, Hristo Aladjov, Kirtan Dave, Egon L. Willighagen et al, . ELIXIR and Toxicology: a community in development, 2021,Faculty of 1000,08 Nov 2021,10ELIXIR):1129 (White Paper )

2.Suresh Kumar Mesara; Kirtan Dave; R B Subramanian. Comparative transcriptome analysis elucidates positive physiological effects of foliar application of pyraclostrobin on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Physiol Mol Biol Plants 28, 971–986 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12298-022-01191-7 

3.Carlos Fernandez-Lozano, Enrique Fernandez-Blanco, Kirtan Dave, Nieves Pedreira, Marcos Gestal, Julian Dorado, Cristian Robert Munteanu “Improving enzyme regulatory protein classification by means of SVM-RFE feature selection”, Molecular BioSystems, 10, 1063-1071, 2014

4. Kirtan Dave, H Panchal, “ENZPRED-Enzymatic Protein Class Predicting By Machine Learning”, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 13(24), 1674-1680,  2013

5. Kirtan Dave, H Panchal, “Metabolism Evolution Based on Network Degrees of Orthologous Enzymes”, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 13(5), 663-674, 2013

6. Kirtan Dave, H Panchal, “Review on Chemogenomics Approach: Interpreting Antagonist Activity of Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 1 in Glaucoma Disease with In-Silico Docking” Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 12(16), 1834-1842, 2012

7. Kirtan Dave, A Lahiry, “Conotoxins: Review and Docking Studies to determine potentials of Conotoxin as an Anticancer Drug Molecule”, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 12(8):845-51, 2012

8. Kirtan Dave, M Gandhi, H Panchal, M Vaidya , “Revision of QSAR, Docking, and Molecular Modeling Studies of Anti-Influenza Virus A (H1N1) Drugs and Targets: Analysis of Hemagglutinins 3D Structure”, Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, 7(4), 255-262,  2011

9. Kirtan Dave, L Mckechnie, H Panchal , “Application of Nano bioinformatics in Medical Science-A Probable Therapy”, Current Bioinformatics, 6(2), 163-172, 2011

10. Kirtan Dave, A Banerjee , “Bioinformatics Analysis of Functional Relations Between CNPs Regions”, Current Bioinformatics, 6(1), 122-128,  201

Scientific Poster

   Kirtan Dave, “Cluster Analysis of Breast Cancer Microarray Data”, Nature Publishing Group , doi:10.1038 /npre.2010.4936.1.

Conference Paper

 Kirtan Dave; Choksi, D; Panchal, H. MetAlgNet : Metabolic pathway network reconstruction from algae genome annotation data.

 In Proceedings of the MOL2NET,5-15 December 2015; Sciforum Electronic Conference Series, Vol.1, 2015, F003; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/MOL2NET-1-F003.

SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE

2010 – 2011       Supervision of one final year project from the Bioinformatic degree

2015 – 2021      Supervision of six final year project from the Bioinformatic degree

2021 – 2022       Supervision of one  final year project from the Bioinformatic degree

PROJECT

Title:"Development of Bioinformatics Tools for Algae" 24-June-2016 to 24-June-2017,Funded by Sardar Patel University-seed-grant Amount: 120000 RS

REVIEWER

journal of Theoretical Biology, Meta Gene, PeerJ, Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, and Software reviewer for SciPy (Scientific Computing with Python Conference) since 2016.

SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, R, Perl, Unix shell scripting, Snakemake , SQLite, MongoDB,MySQL

Frameworks and Tools:  CLC GWB, QIIME 2, GATK, Galaxy Annotation Pipeline, SAM/BAM Tools, Cufflinks, bowtie2, BWA, Tophat, Trinity, Weka, LIBSVM, NextFlow,  GeneSCF, IGV, Cytoscape, GitHub 

(Coding sample at: https://github.com/nrnb/gsoc2014kirtan)

Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati

HONORS AND AWARDS

2022          Galaxy India (Part of use galaxy)

Member of Galaxy India Organizing team. Community is about enabling data intensive research and instruction in India using the Galaxy platform

 

2018           Linux administrator - HPC lab

Awarded with Assistant coordinator for Super computer laboratory (2018-19 to 2020-21) at Sardra Patel University by Gujarat Council on Science & Technology, Gandhinagar), Govt. of Gujarat.

 

2017    Nodal officer -Bioinformatics lab

 Awarded with Nodal officer for Bioinformatics Lab (2017-18 to 2020-21) at Sardra Patel University by Gujarat State   Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM), Govt. of Gujarat.

 

2014           Google Summer of Code 2014

 Contributed open source project on Cytoscape plugin (Network analysis) development with

 National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB) organization, San Francisco, CA, USA

 

2013            Travel Award

  From Newcastle University to present a session topic of "SBOL Extensible Plugin" at Synthetic

  Biology Open Language (SBOL) workshop, Newcastle University, England, UK

 

  2012    Developer Member (Present)

                          Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL)

 

  2012            CSIR-Senior Research fellowship Award

 Prestigious award from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India

 

  2010            Young Scientist Award

 Award for research work presentation on “Cluster analysis of breast cancer microarray  data” at 1st NCBB 2010,   Mar 5, 2010, HNGU, Patan, Gujrat

 

2009           Industrial Biotech Training Programme (IBTP)

Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission, Government of Gujarat and Total Potential Cell Pvt. Ltd