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Research Experience:

06/2015 – Present Staff Scientist, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, CA.

PI: Dr. Joseph Ecker, Salk International Council Chair in Genetics.

10/2012 – 06/2015 Staff Researcher, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, CA.

PI: Dr. Joseph Ecker, Salk International Council Chair in Genetics.

08/2009 – 10/2012 Postdoctoral Associate, Stanford University, CA.

Advisor: Dr. Michael Snyder, Chair & Professor, Department of Genetics.

03/2009 – 07/2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, CT.

Advisor: Dr. Michael Snyder, Director, Genomics & Proteomics Section.

11/2003 – 02/2009 Ph.D. student & Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR), New Delhi, India.

Supervisor: Dr. Samir K. Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR.

Education:

Ph. D. in Bioinformatics – From University of Pune, India (submitted Feb ‘09)

Work done at Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR)

Title: Elucidation of intronic microRNA mediated regulatory networks using in silico approaches.

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Masters’ degree – M.Sc. Bioinformatics (2001 – 2003) from Bharathiar University, India.

First Class with Distinction (CGPA 5.7 on a scale of 6)

Bachelors’ degree – B.Sc. Biotechnology (1998 – 2001)

Dr. G.R.D College of Science (Bharathiar University) – First Class

Other Achievements:

Patents granted: Human microRNA targets in HIV (PCT/IB2006/002802 & US/7825230)

Senior Research Fellowship from Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology India (Apr 2007 – Feb 2009)

Short-listed for the Merck Millipore India Innovation Award 2012

Selected as AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) member through Program for Excellence in Science

Publications

Important Conferences & Trainings:

Oral Presentations:

ISMB Regulatory Genomics Meeting, Long Beach, CA (07/13)

ENCODE international review meeting, Washington D.C. (05/ 2011)

International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB), New Delhi (12/2006)

Poster Presentations

· ISMB Meeting, Long Beach, CA (07/16)

ENCODE International review meeting, Washington (05/2011)

· Human Genome Meeting, New Delhi (09/2008)

Participated in:

International Symposium on Crystallography & Bioinformatics, IISc, Bangalore (2001)

International Conference of SAARC Countries on Biotechnology, Pune (2001).

Trainings:

04/2003 – 08/2003 Project Trainee, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India

08/2002 – 10/2002 Research: Chaos-game theory based analysis of sequence motifs.

01/2002 Short-term project at Pasteur Institute of India, Tamil Nadu, India

· Studied the vaccine development pipeline.

12/2001 Short-term project at United Breweries Limited, Kerala, India

. Studied various steps involved in beer manufacturing.

05/2000 Short-term project at Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kerala, India.

· Studied various molecular biology experimental techniques.

Computer skills:

Pathway modeling, Network Analysis – Cytoscape, MatLab

Function Annotation – Gene clustering, Semantic Similarity for GO annotation

High-throughput data analysis – NGS, microarray and other datasets.

Programming / Scripting languages: PERL, JSP

Statistical packages: R, Matlab

Database: MySQL

High Performance Computing: MPI Implementation