Awards and Recognitions

Awards Received

• Newton Bhabha PhD Placement Fellowship 2014 - 15: Selva Rupa Christinal I. received fellowship jointly from British council and DST-India for six months internship in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), University of Manchester, Manchester, UK from June 2015 to December 2015.
• Best Poster in Chemical Engineering: Selva Rupa Christinal I. was awarded cash prize and award at CSIR - NCL Science day celebration, February 2014.

Talks and Poster Presentations

• Talk by Anu Raghunathan entitled "Metabolic Inquiry and Cellular Engineering: A Systems Approach." at “Accelerating Biology 2018: Digitizing Life” symposium at IISER, Pune, 10 January 2018.
• Talk by Deepanwita Banerjee entitled "Knowledge Awareness and Practice of AMR Post Redline Initiative." at a Meeting on Antibiotic Resistance at IISER Pune, 28 October 2017.
• Talk by Mayooreshwar Rajankar entitled "Systems and Synthetic biology approach to Poly-lactic acid production in Escherichia coli." at INDO-US workshop on "Cell Factories” at IIT Bombay, 20 March 2016.
• Poster Presentation by Deepanwita Banerjee. Integrating metabolomic data as constraints in flux balance models to understand antibiotic resistance. 11th Annual International Conference, Metabolomics 2015, CA, USA.
• Poster Presentation by Selva Rupa Christinal I. Capturing metabolic reprogramming using mass spectrometry – CORE analysis towards understanding tumor heterogeneity and cancer drug resistance. The Gaskell Birthday Symposium – A Celebration of Mass Spectrometry at Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, UK, December 2015.
• Talk by Anu Raghunathan entitled "Towards a Genetic Basis for Antibiotic Resistance in Chromobacterium violaceum." at AIChe 2013 annual meeting, CA, USA.

Grants Received

• Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges Canada: Low cost synthesis of Tuberculosis drugs using synthetic biology in collaboration with Dr. Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, University of Toronto
• DBT Project: Developing a scalable platform for a biopolymer Polylactic Acid using systems metabolic engineering approach
• DST Project: A systems biology approach to rational strain design for amino acid tryptophan production.