CV
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.
For more details, please click on the "Research" tab above.
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
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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