Dr. Prajjval Pratap Singh obtained a Raja Jwala Prasad Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded by the Institute of Eminence, BHU, and joined our lab as a Post-Doc researcher. Prajjval is one of the founder members of this lab. He joined us as CSIR-Junior Research fellow and did PhD on population genetics focusing majorly on the peopling of Bangladesh. He completed his master's in Biotechnology from V.B.S. Purvanchal University in 2016. He worked in population genetics at the Estonian Bio Centre during his visit in 2016 for his dissertation thesis. Prajjval joined our lab in 2018 as a Ph.D. student and has been working on the ancestry of caste and tribal groups of South Asia and is also involved in many projects on modern human and disease genetics. He is a recipient of the DORA scholarship for visiting doctoral students at the University of Tartu and the GYAN scholarship for attending an NGBT conference in 2018. He has published several articles in many reputed journals. His recent work published in 'Mitochondrion,' about the genetic identity of Vedda tribes of Srilanka, gained many highlights as it demonstrated that Veddas are offshoots of India's earliest inhabitants and remained isolated from other Sri Lankans. His work on Andaman islanders was published in Genes & Immunity and announced as the best paper in the reader’s choice section in 2021. He always says yes to dance and can never say no to Lavanglata (a Banarasi sweet). Currently, he is a Post Doctoral Fellow in Israel. 

Anshika did her Bachelors in Zoology from Ramjas College, University of Delhi in 2015 and Masters from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2017. She joined our lab as a PhD student in year 2018. Her research primarily focused on the use of next-generation sequencing to understand how and when patterns of present-day genetic diversity were formed and to reconstruct human population histories. In our lab, she had been involved in Two Projects; COVID-19 susceptibility in South Asian Populations  and Cholera Susceptibility in Bangladeshi Populations. Keeping South Asia in center, her motivation was to decipher the interplay between random genetic drift, natural selection and host-pathogen interaction on a local scale, to reveal molecular signals of adaptation to specific environments in the context of demographic histories of populations. After completing the PhD in 2023, Dr. Anshika moved to San Francisco, California, United States, to work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow.

Charu did her Bachelors in Zoology from BHU and worked in our lab as a project student. Currently she is DPhil student in Oxford. 

Ritabrata did his Bachelors in Zoology from BHU. He worked in our lab as a project student. Currently, he is a PhD student in University of Cambridge, UK.

Nikhil did his Bachelor and Master in Zoology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is a 2019 Khorana Scholar from Ohio State University. Currently he is a PhD student at Department of Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, University of Wyoming.