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AREEJIT SAMAL
AREEJIT SAMAL
Dr. Areejit Samal is a faculty member in the computational biology group of IMSc, Chennai. Before joining IMSc in 2014, he had completed his Bachelors, Masters and PhD in Physics from University of Delhi, and thereafter, postdoctoral training from MPIMIS Leipzig, CNRS/LPTMS Orsay, ISB Seattle and ICTP Trieste. He is interested in addressing biological problems using Network Science approach.
Contact: asamal [at] imsc [dot] res [dot] in
Gitanjali Yadav
Gitanjali Yadav
Dr. Gitanjali Yadav is a Lecturer at the Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and a Scientist at NIPGR New Delhi. She is also an Instructor at the Cambridge Bioinformatics Training Facility since 2016. Her research is in the area of structural genomics and complex networks, with applications in food security and conservation. She has a diverse educational background with a Ph.D. in Immunology, a Master's degree in Biomedical Research and a Graduate degree in Botany, from the University of Delhi. Dr. Yadav's work has been recognized by the Hamied Fellowship from the University of Cambridge (2017), INSA Young Scientist Medal from the India National Science Academy (2013), and the SASTRA National Science Day Award (2021) by Govt of India.
Contact: gy246 [at] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk
Webpage:http://www.nipgr.ac.in/research/dr_gyadav.php
Kavita jain
Kavita jain
Dr. Kavita Jain obtained her PhD from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai in 2003. She pursued her postdoctoral work in University of Koeln, Germany and then in Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel before joining JNCASR as a faculty in 2007. She is presently a full professor at JNCASR, and also serve as associate faculty at ICTS, Bangalore. Her research interests include evolutionary biology, population genetics and statistical physics.
Contact: kavita [dot] jain [dot] bng [at] gmail [dot] com
Leelavati Narlikar
Leelavati Narlikar
Dr. Leelavati Narlikar received her Bachelors degree in computer engineering from University of Pune and a PhD in computer science from Duke University. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda and later as a research associate at University of Pune. She is currently a scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory, working at the interface of machine learning and molecular biology.
Lipi Thukral
Lipi Thukral
Dr. Lipi Thukral obtained her PhD from University of Heidelberg, Germany with Prof. Jeremy C. Smith who is now at Oak Ridge National Lab, USA and Dr. Isabella Daidone from University of L'Aquila, Italy. She came back to India in 2012 as a DST-Faculty fellow at CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi. Since 2016, she is a senior scientist at IGIB. Dr. Lipi uses diverse computational methods combined with high performance computing to investigate dynamics of biomolecules. Her research is at the confluence of physics, chemistry and biology. The methodology relies on strong biophysical and statistical mechanics principles to investigate structural changes underlying biological phenomenon which are crucial to understand the function and mechanism of cellular processes.
Contact: lipi [dot] thukral [at] igib [dot] in
Webpage: http://www.csblab.in/
Manju BANSAL
Manju BANSAL
Prof. Manju Bansal received her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1977. She joined European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg as a von Humboldt fellow in 1981. Thereafter she joined Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU) of Indian Institute of Science as lecturer in 1982, and is presently continuing there as an emeritus professor. She was the founding director of Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (Bangalore) (2001-2004). Prof. Bansal has been a recipient of INSA Medal for Young Scientists, and Senior Fulbright Fellowship (USA). She is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad, since 1998. The thrust of Prof. Manju Bansal's research is directed towards arriving at a better understanding of the sequence dependent variability in DNA structure and its role in biological function.
Contact: mb [at] iisc [dot] ac [dot] in
Webpage: http://nucleix.mbu.iisc.ac.in/
Monika sharma
Monika sharma
Dr. Monika Sharma obtained her PhD from IIIT, Hyderabad in 2012. She pursued her postdoctoral work in Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA and then in National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)- NIH, Bethesda, USA. She then joined Chemical Sciences at IISER Mohali as INSPIRE Faculty in 2015. Her research interests include the application of computational methods to understand the biological processes, especially those that have their keys residing in conformational dynamics.
Contact: mnsharma [at] iisermohali [dot] ac [dot] in
Webpage: http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/faculty/people/faculty-members/dr-monika-sharma
Nagasuma CHandra
Nagasuma CHandra
Dr. Nagasuma Chandra is a PhD in structural biology from University of Bristol, UK. In 1999 she joined Indian Institute of Science and continues to work there as an Associate Professor. She is also affiliated with Bioinformatics and Mathematical biology initiatives at Indian Institute of Science. She has 100+ publications in the areas of systems biology, structural biology and drug discovery in international journals. Dr Chandra's laboratory studies genome-scale molecular networks at different levels from systems to protein structures to understand global features that are important to the pathogen, changes that occur in the host and the pathogen upon infection including metabolic reprogramming and obtaining insights from these analysis to drug discovery.
Contact: nchandra [at] biochem [dot] iisc [dot] ernet [dot] in
Partha p majumder
Partha p majumder
Prof. Majumder obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata (1982). He worked as senior research associate and as a research instructor at Center for Demographic & Population Genetics, University of Texas, Houston, U.S.A (1980-83). He joined ISI-Kolkata as a lecturer in 1983, and continued as associate professor (1987-91), as professor (1991-2010) and as head of Anthropology & Human Genetics Unit (1999-2010). He has been the founding director of National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) Kalyani (2010-19), and is presently continuing there as a distinguished professor. Prof. Partha is well known for his tremendous contributions in the field of genetics and statistics. He is interested in the study of human genetic variations to draw inferences on human evolution, population structure, susceptibilities to diseases, responses to drugs and vaccines, etc.
Contact: ppm1 [at] nibmg [dot] ac [dot] in
SaNghamitra bandyopadhyay
SaNghamitra bandyopadhyay
Prof. Sanghamitra obtained Ph. D. in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. She then joined the ISI as a faculty member, and presently continuing as Director since 2015. She is the recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Science, TWAS Prize, Infosys Prize, Swarnajayanti fellowship, INAE Silver Jubilee award, Humboldt Fellowship (Germany), Senior Associateship of ICTP (Italy), and several others. She is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), National Academy of Engineers (INAE), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. Currently she serves on the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. Her research interests include computational biology, soft and evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Contact: sanghami [at] isical [dot] ac [dot] in
Webpage: https://www.isical.ac.in/~sanghami/
SaraSwathi vishveshwara
SaraSwathi vishveshwara
Prof. Saraswathi Vishveshwara completed her Ph.D. in the field of quantum chemistry at the City University of New York under the guidance of David Beveridge. She pursued her postdoctoral research in quantum chemistry at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, under the mentorship of Nobel Laureate, John Pople. Later, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Molecular Biophysics Unit(MBU) and joined as a faculty member at MBU in 1981. Currently she is continuing at MBU as NASI Honorary Scientist. She is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and the National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad. Prof. Vishveshwara, as a computational biologist, has primarily focused on elucidating structure-function relationships in biological systems. Using computational-mathematical techniques to understand the functioning of macromolecules such as proteins is a key aspect of her research.
Contact: saraswathi [at] iisc [dot] ac [dot] in
Webpage: http://mbu.iisc.ac.in/~vishgp/
Sarika mehra
Sarika mehra
Dr. Sarika Mehra completed her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from University of Minnesota in 2005. She further pursued her post-doctoral research at University of Minnesota. She is presently continuing as an associate professor at chemical engineering department of IIT Bombay . Her primary research interests are in the area of systems biology and metabolic engineering, with a focus on systems of relevance in medicine and biotechnology. Her lab employs a multidisciplinary approach using high-throughput experimental techniques and sophisticated computational tools to decipher these networks, both at the macroscopic and microscopic levels.
Contact: sarika [at] che [dot] iitb [dot] ac [dot] in
Vibhor kumar
Vibhor kumar
Dr. Vibhor completed his PhD in Computational systems biology from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto), Finland. After completing his M. tech in computer technology from IIT Delhi, he started working with computational problems of analysing large image datasets from cryoEM and statistical analysis of Genomic data. During his PhD, he solved the first and highest resolution (so far) structure of LDL (bad cholesterol) in native state at human body temperature. After completing PhD, Dr Vibhor started applying computational approach to genomic data and worked for 1 year at a personal-genomics company in Malaysia. He has worked at Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) for more than 8 years and has published some fundamental research findings. At GIS he was primarily working on epigenome and gene regulation and applied his findings to other branches such as cancer and stem cell study.
Contact: vibhor [at] iiitd [dot] ac [dot] in
Webpage: https://www.iiitd.ac.in/vibhork
Yachna jain
Yachna jain
Yachna Jain is a Ph.D. graduate student working in the field of genome organization and evolutionary biology with Dr. Kuljeet S. Sandhu at IISER Mohali. She obtained her Bachelors degree in Biotechnology from NIT Jalandhar and Masters degree in Developmental Biology from IIT Kanpur. Before joining IISER Mohali, she has also worked as Research Fellow in NABI, Mohali for a year. Currently, she is interested in understanding the molecular basis of cancer resistance in mammals.
Contact: yachna [at] iisermohali [dot] ac [dot] in
Zhumur ghosh
Zhumur ghosh
Dr. Zhumur Ghosh obtained her PhD from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, followed by a post-doc at Stanford School of Medicine. Presently she is an Associate Professor at Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, Kolkata. Dr. Ghosh studies the role of regulatory RNAs during different stages of embryonic development with a special focus to investigate their effect on different substates of pluripotent stem cell states.
Contact: zhumur [at] jcbose [dot] ac [dot] in
Webpage: http://www.jcbose.ac.in/faculty-details/zhumur-ghosh
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