Akanksha Rajput, Ph.D.

I am a highly experienced computational biologist with over 12 years of proficiency in a range of fields, including multi-omics data analysis, systems biology,  prediction algorithm development, cheminformatics, phylogenomics, database and webserver development. My research expertise lies in the areas of antimicrobial resistance, biofilms, bacterial cell-cell communication, and virology. I possess strong experimental skills, including the ability to explore bacterial systems such as developing biofilms and evaluating the impact of inhibitors.

Whether working independently or as part of a team, I am adaptable, and possess excellent written and oral communication skills, all anchored by a strong publication record. I am confident that my diverse skillset and extensive experience will enable me to contribute significantly to any project or team.

Educational Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi & Bioinformatics Centre, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, India     (2012-2018)

  • • • Thesis title: “Development of in-silico resources to study Quorum sensing and Quorum quenching molecules”

      • PhD Supervisor: Dr. Manoj Kumar, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-IMTech, Chandigarh, India.

      • Date of PhD thesis defense:  March 2018 (Awarded with V. C. Vora Best Thesis Award of 2018)

• Micro-Master of Business Administration (Micro-MBA), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California (2019)

• Masters of Science in Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Banasthali University, India    (2009-2011)

• Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Banasthali University, India     (2006-2009)

Positions held

• Senior Bioinformatics Analyst (2024-Present):  Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

• Senior Computational Research Scientist (2023-2024): Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Tennessee

• Postdoctoral Scholar (2019-2023): Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego,  La Jolla, California

• Postdoctoral Associate (2018-2019): Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California

• Research Associate (2018): Bioinformatics Centre & Virology Discovery Unit, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech), Chandigarh, INDIA

• Project Assistant-III (2017-2018): Bioinformatics Centre & Virology Discovery Unit, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech), Chandigarh, INDIA

Publications

Research Articles 

2024

• Durumutla HB, Haller A, Noble G, Prabakaran AD, McFarland K, Latimer H, Rajput A, Akinborewa O, Namjou-Khales B, Hui DY, Quattrocelli M. The human glucocorticoid receptor variant rs6190 increases blood cholesterol and promotes atherosclerosis. J Clin Invest. Jul 2025. doi:  10.1172/JCI190180                         (Impact factor: 13.6)

2024

• Rajput A#, Reilly C#,  Peraza AZ , Wang J,  Sioson E,  Matt G, Paul R,  Lu C,  Acic A,  Gangwani K, Zhou X. ppHiC: Interactive exploration of Hi-C results on the ProteinPaint web portal. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. Dec 2024. doi:  10.1016/j.csbj.2024.09.020                           (Impact factor: 4.5)

• J Josephs-Spaulding, A Rajput, Y Hefner, R Szubin, A Balasubramanian, G Li, D C. Zielinski, L Jahn, M Sommer, P Phaneuf, BO Palsson. Reconstructing the transcriptional regulatory network of probiotic L. reuteri is enabled by transcriptomics and machine learning. mSystems. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01257-23                                                                                                                                                    (Impact factor: 6.4)

2023

• Gautam S, Thakur A, Rajput A, Kumar M. Anti-Dengue: A Machine Learning-Assisted Prediction of Small Molecule Antivirals against Dengue Virus and Implications in Drug Repurposing.  Viruses. 2023 Dec 27. doi: 10.3390/v16010045                        (Impact factor: 4.7)

• Rajput A#,  Chauhan SM#,  Mohite OS,  Hyun JC,   Ardalani O,  Jahn LJ,  Sommer MOA, Palsson BO. Pangenome analysis reveals the genetic basis for taxonomic classification of the Lactobacillaceae family.  Food Microbiol. 2023 July 5.  doi: 10.1016/j.fm.2023.104334     (Impact factor: 5.3)

• Rajput A, Bhamare KT,  Thakur A, Kumar M. anti-Biofilm: Machine learning assisted prediction of IC50 activity of chemicals against biofilms of microbes causing antimicrobial resistance and implications in drug repurposing. J Mol Biol. 2023 April 20. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168115       (Impact factor: 6.151)

2022

• Rajput A, Tsunemoto H, Sastry AV, Szubin R, Rychel K, Chauhan SM, Pogliano J, Palsson BO. Advanced transcriptomic analysis reveals the role of efflux pumps and media composition in antibiotic responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Sep 12. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac743       (Impact factor: 19.16)

• Rajput A,  Bhamare KT,  Thakur A, Kumar M. Biofilm-i: A Platform for Predicting Biofilm Inhibitors Using Quantitative Structure—Relationship (QSAR) Based Regression Models to Curb Antibiotic Resistance. Molecules. 29 July 2022. doi: 10.3390/molecules27154861    (Impact factor: 4.927)

• Kamboj S, Rajput A, Rastogi A, Thakur A, Kumar M. Targeting non-structural proteins of Hepatitis C virus for predicting repurposed drugs using QSAR and machine learning approaches.  Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 30 June 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.06.060       (Impact factor: 6.155)

• Rajput A , Tsunemoto H,  Sastry AV, Szubin R, Rychel K, Sugie J, Pogliano J, Palsson BO. Machine Learning from Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptomes identifies independently modulated sets of genes associated with known transcriptional regulators. Nucleic Acids Res . 2022 March 31. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac187       (Impact factor: 19.16)

2021

• Rajput A, Thakur A, Rastogi A, Choudhury S, Kumar M. Computational identification of repurposed drugs against viruses causing epidemics and pandemics via drug-target network analysis.  Comput Biol Med. 2021 Sept. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104666     (Impact factor: 4.589)

• Rajput A & Kumar M.  Anti-Ebola: an initiative to predict Ebola virus inhibitors through machine learning. Mol Divers. 2021 Aug 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11030-021-10291-7     (Impact factor: 2.943)

• Rajput A,  Thakur A,  Mukhopadhyay A,  Kamboj S, Rastogi A, Gautam S, Jassal H, Kumar M. Prediction of repurposed drugs for Coronaviruses using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2021 May 24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.05.037       (Impact factor: 7.271)

• Rajput A,  Seif Y,  Choudhary KS,  Dalldorf, Poudel  S,  Monk JM, Palsson BO. Pangenome Analytics Reveal Two-Component Systems as Conserved Targets in ESKAPEE Pathogens. mSystems. 2021 Jan 26. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00981-20      (Impact factor: 6.496)

• Rajput A,  Kumar A, Megha K, Thakur A, Kumar M. DrugRepV: A compendium of repurposed drugs and chemicals targeting epidemic and pandemic viruses.  Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2021 Jan 22. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbaa421    (Impact factor: 11.622)

• Rajput A,  Poudel S, Tsunemoto H, Meehan M, Szubin R, Olson C, Seif Y, Dillon N, Vrbanac A, Sugie J, Dahesh S, Monk J, Dorrestein P, Knight R,  Pogliano J, Nizet V, Feist A, Palsson BO. Identifying the effect of vancomycin on health care–associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains using bacteriological and physiological media.  GigaScience. 2021 Jan 09. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa156       (Impact factor: 6.524 )

• Dillon N,  Seif Y,  Tsunemoto H, Poudel S, Meehan M, Szubin R, Olson C, Rajput A, Alarcon G,  Lamsa A,  Vrbanac A, Sugie J, Dahesh S, Monk J, Dorrestein P, Knight R,  Feist A, Pogliano J,  Palsson BO, Nizet V.  Characterizing the response of Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 to azithromycin in multiple in vitro growth conditions. bioRxiv.  2020 May 20. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.19.079962

•  Seif Y,  Poudel S, Tsunemoto H,  Szubin R,  Meehan M, Olson C, Rajput A , Alarcon G,  Lamsa A, Dillon N, Vrbanac A, Sugie J, Dahesh S, Monk J, Dorrestein P, Knight R,  Pogliano J Feist A, Palsson BO,  Nizet V. Profiling the effect of nafcillin on HA-MRSA D592 using bacteriological and physiological media. bioRxiv. 2020 May 01. doi: 10.1101/2020.04.30.070904

2020

• Gupta AK, Kumar A, Rajput A, Kaur K, Dar SA, Thakur A, Megha K, Kumar M. NipahVR: a resource of multi-targeted putative therapeutics and epitopes for the Nipah virus. Database (Oxford). 2020 Jan 1;2020. pii: baz159. doi: 10.1093/database/baz159    (Impact factor: 3.683)

2019

• Rajput A,  Poudel S, Tsunemoto H, Meehan M, Szubin R, Olson C, Seif Y, Dillon N, Vrbanac A, Sugie J, Dahesh S, Monk J, Dorrestein P, Knight R, Nizet V, Palsson BO, Feist A, Pogliano J. Profiling the effect of nafcillin on HA-MRSA D712 using bacteriological and physiological media. Sci Data. 2019 Dec 17. doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0331-z       (Impact factor: 5.929 )

• Rajput A and Kumar M. Comparison of expression profiling through microarray and RNA-seq analysis for Nipah virus. bioRxiv. 2019 Jan 31. doi: 10.1101/536284

• Rajput A, Kumar A, Kumar M. Computational Identification of Inhibitors Using QSAR Approach Against Nipah Virus. Frontiers in Pharmacology (Experimental Pharmacology and Drug Discovery). 2019 Jan 21. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00071       (Impact factor: 3.831 )                                                                                                                                        

2018

• Rajput A, Thakur A, Sharma S, Kumar M. aBiofilm: a resource of anti-biofilm agents and their potential implications in targeting antibiotic drug resistance. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D894-D900. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1157       (Impact factor: 11.561) 

• Rajput A and Kumar M. Anti-flavi: A web platform to predict inhibitors of flaviviruses using QSAR and peptidomimetic approaches. Frontiers in Microbiology(Virology) , 2018 Dec 18; 9, 3121, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03121      (Impact factor: 4.019)

• Qureshi A, Rajput A, Kaur G, Kumar M. HIVprotI: an integrated web based platform for prediction and design of HIV proteins inhibitors. J Cheminform. 2018 Mar 9;10(1):12. doi:10.1186/s13321-018-0266-y      (Impact factor: 4.220)

2017

•  Rajput A. & Kumar M. In silico analysis of conservational, functional and phylogenetic distribution of the LuxI and LuxR homologs in Gram-positive bacteria. Sci Rep. 2017 Aug 1;7(1):6969. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07241-5       (Impact factor: 4.259)

•  Rajput A. & Kumar M. Computational Exploration of Putative LuxR Solos in Archaea and Their Functional Implications in Quorum Sensing. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 May; 8, 798, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00798       (Impact factor: 4.076)    

2016

•  Rajput A, Kaur K, Kumar M. SigMol: repertoire of quorum sensing signaling molecules in prokaryotes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Jan 4;44(D1):D634-9. doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1076       (Impact factor: 10.162) 

• Gupta AK#, Kaur K#, Rajput A#, Dhanda SK#, Sehgal M#, Khan MS#, Monga I, Dar SA, Singh S, Nagpal G, Usmani SS, Thakur A, Kaur G, Sharma S, Bhardwaj A, Qureshi A, Raghava GP, Kumar M. ZikaVR: An Integrated Zika Virus Resource for Genomics, Proteomics, Phylogenetic and Therapeutic Analysis. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 16;6:32713. doi: 10.1038/srep32713       (Impact factor: 5.228)

• Kaur K#, Gupta AK#, Rajput A#, Kumar M. ge-CRISPR - An integrated pipeline for the prediction and analysis of sgRNAs genome editing efficiency for CRISPR/Cas system. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 1;6:30870. doi: 10.1038/srep30870        (Impact factor: 5.228)

•  Thakur A, Rajput A, Kumar M. MSLVP: prediction of multiple subcellular localization of viral proteins using a support vector machine. Mol Biosyst. 2016 Jul 19;12(8):2572-86. doi: 10.1039/c6mb00241b        (Impact factor: 2.92)

2015

• Rajput A, Gupta AK, Kumar M. Prediction and analysis of quorum sensing peptides based on sequence features. PLoS One. (PLOS) 2015 Mar 17;10(3):e0120066. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120066        (Impact factor: 3.54) 

Book Chapters

• Akanksha Rajput,  Kailash T. Bhamare,  Adhip Mukhopadhyay,  Amber Rastogi,  Sakshi,  and Manoj Kumar.  Efficacy of Anti-Biofilm Agents in Targeting ESKAPE Pathogens with a Focus on Antibiotic Drug Resistance. In Quorum Sensing: Microbial Rules of Life. American Chemical Society (ACS). Nov 2020. doi:10.1021/bk-2020-1374.ch010

• Akanksha Rajput & Manoj Kumar. Anti-biofilm peptides: A new class of quorum quenchers and their prospective therapeutic applications. In Biotechnological Applications of Quorum Sensing Inhibitors. Springer Nature. May 2018. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-9026-4_5            

• Manoj Kumar & Akanksha Rajput. Phylogenomics and evolutionary perspective of quorum sensing regulators (LuxI/LuxR) in prokaryotes. In Quorum Sensing and its Biotechnological Applications. Springer Nature. August 2018. doi:  10.1007/978-981-13-0848-2_4 

Reviewer and Editor roles

• Reviewers of Frontiers, MDPI, Computers in Biology and Medicine,  Scientific Reports, BMC Bioinformatics,  Molecular Diversity, Life, Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design,  and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

• 2025 – Present: Associate Editor, Frontiers in Bioinformatics

• 2025 – Present: Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, MDPI

• 2025 – Present: Topic Editor, Frontiers in Bioinformatics  

Copyrights                                          

• Akanksha Rajput, Anamika Thakur and Manoj Kumar. DrugrepV: A software for repurposed drugs and chemicals targeting epidemic and pandemic viruses. (Submitted 27-05-2021) 

• Akanksha Rajput, Karambir Kaur and Manoj Kumar. SigMol: Software for archiving Quorum Sensing Signaling Molecules in Prokaryotes. (Submitted 11-05-2016) 006CR2016 12-Sep-2016 SW

•  Akanksha Rajput, Amit Kumar Gupta and Manoj Kumar. QSPpred: Software for prediction and analysis of quorum sensing peptides. 017CR2014 11-Aug-2014 SW

•  Anamika Thakur, Akanksha Rajput and Manoj Kumar. MSLVP: software for predicting multiple subcellular localization of viral proteins using support vector machine. (Submitted 27-05-2016) 008CR2016 SW

•  Karambir Kaur, Amit Kumar Gupta, Akanksha Rajput and Manoj Kumar. geCRISPR - Software for the prediction of sgRNAs genome editing efficiency for CRISPR/Cas system. (Submitted 16-05-2016) 007CR2016 SW

Awards/Prizes

• • Young Scientist Award (Category Under 40) as Bioclues Innovation Research and Development (BIRD-2020),  for the contribution in the field of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. The BIOinformatics CLUb for Experimenting Scientists (BIOCLUES) Organization is India's bioinformatics society, bridging mentor-mentee relationships and affiliated by ISCB and APBioNet.

• • IVS Young Scientist Award 2019 (Indian Virology Society) for the presentation entitled "Comparison of expression profiling through transcriptomics analysis for Nipah virus infection" in the International Conference VIROCON 2020 on the theme "Evolution of Viruses and Viral Diseases" from 18th to 20th  February 2020  held at New Delhi, India 

• • Research Council Travel Awards 2017 for the presentation entitled “Computational identification and experimental validation of effective anti-biofilm agents” given before Research Council on 28th November 2017 at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh

• • Awarded EMBO travel grant for attending EMBO Conference: Chemical biology 2016 held on 31st Aug - 03rd Sept 2016 at EMBL Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

• • Awarded Department of Science and Technology – Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB), International Travel Support grant for attending EMBO Conference: Chemical biology 2016 held on 31st Aug - 03rd Sept 2016 at EMBL Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

• • Awarded Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)- International travel grant for attending EMBO Conference: Chemical biology 2016 held on 31st Aug - 03rd Sept 2016 at EMBL Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

• • Awarded Junior Research Fellowship by Department of Biotechnology, India (DBT-JRF 2012) (Rank-023)

• • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - Life Sciences 2012 examination  (Rank-068, 99.4 percentile)

• • Scholarship holder in M.Sc. (Biotechnology) sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, India (Banasthali University)

• • Rank holder (All India Rank 54th) in National Talent Search held by BIOTECH HELPLINE 2009

Presentations                                      

• • Demo-Hands on session for “Drug Repurposing” during virtual workshop entitled Bioinformatics applications in tackling COVID-19 pandemics  organized by Dollar Education from 14th- 24th  March 2022

• • Demo-Hands on session for “Data Visualization (Circos and Cytoscape)” during One month Bioinformatics Training on Data science and machine Learning  organized by Decode Life from 01st- 30th  June 2021.

• • Demo-Hands on session for “Phylogenomics analysis” during the high-end Workshop on Genome Informatics  organized by Decode Life from 05th- 21st  April 2021.

• • Demo-Hands on session for “Overview of Next Generation Sequencing data Analysis” during the Training on Bioinformatics organized by Future BioSciences, Bangladesh from 13th- 14th  February 2021.

• • Demo-Hands on session for “ How to perform PanGenomics analysis?” during the high-end one-week training on bioinformatics (Microbial-omics and metagenomics) organized by Decode Life from 25th- 31st  January 2021.

• • Demo-Hands on session for “Analysis of RNA-Seq datasets to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs)” during the high-end one-week training on bioinformatics (Microbial-omics and metagenomics) organized by Decode Life from 25th- 31st January 2021.

• • Demo-Hands on session for “Gene Enrichment analysis” during the high-end two-week training on bioinformatics organized by Decode Life from 04th- 18th January 2021.

• • Demo-Hands on session for “RNA-Seq analysis” during the high-end two-week training on bioinformatics organized by Decode Life from 04th- 18th January 2021.

• • Demo-Hands on session for “Analysis of RNA-Seq datasets to identify DEGs (differentially expressed genes)” during the high-end International Workshop on "Basic to advanced data analysis in Genomics and Proteomics" organized by Nextgenhelper (proprietary registered with Govt. of India) from 19th, 20th  and 26th December 2020.

• • Oral presentation "Pangenome analytics reveal two-component systems as conserved targets in ESKAPEE pathogens" in the 2020 Systems Biology Annual Meeting , National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIIH-NIAID) held as Virtual meeting on 23rd  September 2020

• • Oral presentation "Comparison of expression profiling through transcriptomics analysis for Nipah virus infection" in the International Conference VIROCON 2020 on the theme "Evolution of Viruses and Viral Diseases" held at New Delhi, India from 18th to 20th  February 2020 

• • Poster presentation "Transcriptomics Analysis Of Differentially Expressed Genes In Nipah Virus" in the International Conference VIROCON 2020 on the theme "Evolution of Viruses and Viral Diseases" held at New Delhi, India from 18th to 20th  February 2020 

• • Poster presentation "Comparative Pangenomic analyses for Two-component system among ESKAPE(E) pathogens" in the Gordon Conference- Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms held at Ventura County, California from 12th to 17th  January  2020

• • Poster presentation "Analyzing the Bacterial Cytological Profiling among hospital-acquired and community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus through Machine Learning" in the Systems Biology for Clinical Infectious Diseases Research  held at Galveston Island, Houston  from 18th to 21st  September 2019

• • Poster presentation "RNA-Seq analyses of short- and long-term antireteroviral treated patients with Kaposi's sarcoma" in the International conference of Virology (INTERVIROCON-2018) held at PGIMER Chandigarh from 12th to 14th November 2018                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        (Awarded as Best Poster)  

• • Poster presentation "Computational prediction of integrase targeting antiviral peptides " in the International conference of Virology (INTERVIROCON-2018) held at PGIMER Chandigarh from 12th to 14th November 2018

• • Resource person in pre-conference workshop on "Recent Trends in Viral Bioinformatics" of International conference of Virology (INTERVIROCON-2018) held at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology on 10th October 2018

• • Resource Person for the session "Overview of Bioinformatics and its application in Teaching and Research" during  24th workshop on Applications of Bioinformatics in Teaching and Research at Bioinformatics Centre, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla on 26th October 2018

• • Demo-Hands on session for “Implementation of Machine learning Techniques using Weka” during the Bioinformatics training for trainers (BT2) organized by Bioinformatics Center at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology from 20th – 24th March 2018

• •  Demo-Hands on session for “Development of web server using XAMPP package” during the Bioinformatics training for trainers (BT2) organized by Bioinformatics Center at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology from 20th – 24th March 2018

• •  Resource person at hands on session on “Genome Editing: Tools and Applications” in National symposium cum faculty development programme on Genome editing: tools and Applications held from 15th – 22nd Jan 2018 at Miranda House, University of Delhi

• • Oral presentation “Computational tools on CRISPR based genome editing” in National symposium cum faculty development programme on Genome editing: tools and Applications held from 15th – 22nd Jan 2018 at Miranda House, University of Delhi

• • e-poster presentation “The impact of CRISPR-Cas9 on target identification and validation” in National symposium cum faculty development programme on Genome editing: tools and Applications held from 15th – 22nd Jan 2018 at Miranda House, University of Delhi     (Awarded as Best ePoster)

• • Poster presentation “Comparative Genomics of Flaviviruses to Identify Conserved Drug Targets” in VIROCON-2017, an International Conference on Viruses to Viromes in Health and Disease held on 07th  - 09th Dec 2017 at NITTE University, Mangalore, India

• • Flash presentation “Computational identification and experimental validation of effective anti-biofilm agents” given before Research Council on 28th November 2017 at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh 

• • Poster presentation “Prediction of anti-viral peptides targeting viral replication as potential therapeutics” in IMTechCon- an Industry-Academia Meet held on 04th - 06th Oct 2017 at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

• •  Oral presentation on the topic “Computational exploration of AHL-based QS system in Gram-positive bacteria” in 2nd International Conference on Regulatory Network Architecture in Bacteria (RNAB-2016) held on 16th - 18th Dec 2016 at SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India

• •  Poster presentation “Exploring autoinducer binding domain of LuxR regulators for quorum sensing in gram-positive bacteria” in 2nd International Conference on Regulatory Network Architecture in Bacteria (RNAB-2016) held on 16th - 18th Dec 2016 at SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India   (Awarded as Best Poster)  

• • Poster presentation “Analyses and Prediction of Antiviral proteins using Support Vector Machine” in VIROCON-2016, an International Conference on Global Perspectives in Virus Disease Management held on 08th  -10th Dec 2016 at ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticulture Research, Bengaluru, India

• •  Poster presentation “ABPpred: an in silico method to predict anti-biofilm peptides as therapeutics” in EMBO - Chemical Biology 2016 Conference, held on 31st Aug - 03rd Sept 2016 at EMBL Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

• • Poster presentation “Identification of Quorum Sensing Peptides using Random Forest and instance–based Classifier” in 31st Convocation & Conference of Society for Information Science, on ‘BIG DATA Mining: The Concepts, Methods and application” held on 27th - 29th Nov 2015 at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India 

Conferences/Workshops attended       

• • Attended "Systems biology of Infectious diseases" workshop conducted by Centre for Viral Systems Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California from 20th February to 21st February 2019

• • Attended Author Workshop conducted by Elsevier in association with CSIR-IMTech, Chandigarh, India on 20th June 2017

• • Attended workshop on Basic Biotechnology for Laboratory Animals held on 20th – 21st Sept 2016 at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India 

• • Attended national workshop on “Bioinformatics Approaches on Genome Resource, Assembly and Annotation” held on 09th - 12th Feb 2016 at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

• • Attended national symposium on “Current trends in bioinformatics” held on 06th November 2015 at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

• • Attended Indo-US conference and workshop on “Molecular modeling and informatics in drug Design” held on 03rd - 06th Nov 2014 at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, India

• • Attended “Indian Peptide Society’s Satellite Symposium” jointly organized by CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology and Indian Peptide Society (IPS) at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh India on 21st February 2014

• • Attended symposium on “Biotechnology in India: Current Status and Future Scope” organized by Academy of Innovative Research, Ambedkarnagar, India on 30th March 2010

Trainings                       

• • Underwent BSL-3 training at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India from 11th June - 12th June 2018

• • Summer training on various biotechnological techniques at ICMR-National Jalma Institute for Leprosy & other Mycobacterial disease from 20th May - 05th June 2010, Agra, India

• • Dissertation for 6 months on “Development and enrichment of microsatellite containing ATG enriched genomic library of Withania somnifera” at CSIR-Central Institute for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants from 02nd Jan - 02nd June 2011, Lucknow, India

Computational and Bioinformatics Skills

Proficient or familiar with a vast array of programming languages, concepts and tools, including:

•  Operating system: Linux, Mac OsX, Windows

• Programming language: Python, Perl, R, C/C++ 

• Webserver scripting: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, NetBeans IDE

• Database management: DBMS, MySQL, Data structure

• Machine learning Techniques: Tensor flow (Keras), Support Vector Machine (SVMlight & SVMmulticlass), Random Forest, Instance-based Classifier, Artificial Neural Network using Scikit and Weka packages.

• Data mining tools: pubmed.mineR

• Bioinformatics tools: BLAST, BLAT, HMMER, multiple sequence alignment (ClustalW, ClustalO, MAFFT) clustering (CD-HIT, CLANS, R-package), Motif analyses tools (MEME, GLAM2, and MERCI) feature selection (mRMR, Weka), structural exploration (I-TASSER, LSQMAN, MUSTANG, PYMOL, ProMal3D), phylogenomics (MEGA, Jalview, ITOL, FigTree)

• Cheminformatics: Padel, Mordred, Vlife, QSAR, ChesMapper, Cresset (Sparx & Forge), AD-MDI, ScaffoldHunter 

• Data visualization tool: CIRCOS, Cytoscape, Krona Plot, Gephi, 

• Statistical analyses: Majorly through R language and MS excel (basic statistics i.e. mean, median, mode), ROCR, Clustering (k-mean), UpSetR, ScatterPlots, HeatMaply, ScatterPlot with marginal histogram, BubblePlot, Circular barplot, Venn diagram

• NGS data analyses tools: NGSQC tool kit (Quality check), VELVET (Assembly), PROKKA and RAST (Annotation), Metagenomics data analyses (nanopore & Illumina), RNA-seq (EdgeR, DSeq2 & Cuffdiff)

• Comparative/functional genomics tools: MAUVE & GenomeRing (Genome alignment), RDP package (Recombinant Detection Program), Gview (genome visualization)

Molecular biology and Biotechnology skills

Practiced various molecular biology, microbiology and immunology techniques:

• Molecular biology techniques: DNA/RNA isolation, plasmid isolation, PCR, Gel Electrophoresis, sequencing, Protein extraction, PAGE, Biochemical tests, Enzyme kinetics, Electron microscopy, Microtomy, Chromatographic techniques

• Microbiology techniques: Bacterial culturing, Gram-staining, Plant tissue culture, Crystal violet assay, MTT assay

• Immunological techniques: ELISA, Animal handling, Biosafety procedures, Hemocytometer