Kumarasamy Thangaraj, PhD

K. Thangaraj is director at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) India. Major research interest of Dr Thangaraj group has been in the field of human origin, health and disease. His group is interested in understand the complex origin and affinities of Indian populations, using the genomics variations of contemporary populations and ancient biological remains. His group is also interested in understanding the impact of endogamy on health and disease of South Asians. His other research focus is to find the molecular basis of; male infertility, cardiovascular diseases, sex determination, and mitochondrial disorders.

Dr. G. P. S. Raghava

Dr. G. P. S. Raghava received his M.Tech from IIT Delhi and PhD from Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh. He worked as Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University UK (1996-98), Bioinformatics specialist at UAMS, USA (2002-3 & 2006) and visiting professor at POSTECH, South Korea (2004). He worked as scientist for 30 years in Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh. His group developed more than 250 web servers, 200 research papers, 80 Copyrights/patents, 35 databases and mirror sites. He got following major awards a) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science b) “National Bioscience Award for Carrier Development” for year 2005-2006 (by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. India) c) J. C. Bose national fellowship 2010 by DST d) fellow of National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc) and v) fellow of Indian Academy of Science Bangalore.

Prof. Vasant Shinde 

Prof. Vasant Shinde research intrest is in Understanding the genesis of the basic sciences and technologies through archaeological sources. The archaeological sources are generated through field investigations such as systematic exploration and excavation. Besides, understanding the process of peopling of South Asia and cultural dispersal through the ages with the help of archaeogenetic records and scientific investigations is the objective of the recent research. Artefacts and ecofacts collected systematically from various archaeological sites are subjected to various scientific analyses such as Strontium, Stable Isotope, Starch Grain, Lipid profile, etc. to understand ancient diet, health and migration. 

G. Narahari Sastry

G. Narahari Sastry is Professor at IIT hyderabad in Department of  BioTechnology and completed his Ph.D from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad and his research interests are in Computational Chemistry Computational Biology Drug Discovery Non-Covalent Interactions He is awarded with many awards like Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2011(considered as the highest national recognition in Science)  JC Bose National Fellowship, 2015, National Bioscience Award of DBT, 2009,  Swarnajayanthi Fellow of DST, 2005, CRSI Medal for excellence in basic research, 2009,  B. C. Deb Memorial Award for Soil/ Physical Chemistry, Indian Science Congress, 2008,  B. M. Birla Science prize in Chemistry, 2001,  Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow, 2006,  Recognized as the top scientist in several surveys conducted.

Dr. Surendra Nimesh

Dr. Surendra nimesh works in Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan. His research intrest is in Design and development of nanoparticle based novel delivery systems for efficient and targeted delivery of drugs, genes and siRNAs for therapeutics with emphasis on treatment of cardiovascular diseases also he has received many awards and fellowship like Young Scientist Project (2012) Visiting Fellowship (Jan 2012 – March 2013) Best poster award (2010)

Young Scientist Project (2007) Senior Research Fellowship (Aug 2003- Jul 2006) (SRF) Junior Research Fellowship (Aug 2001- Jul 2003) (JRF).

Prof. Shailendra Mohan 

Prof. Shailendra Mohan is a practicing linguist, academician and teacher with more than 19 years of teaching experience at Deccan College Post Graduate & Research Institute, Pune. He has done extensive field work working on scores of major and minor languages of India. His wide study includes extensive research on an endangered language and a language isolate called Nihali spoken in central India. He also specializes in linguistic studies on Munda languages, a language family spread across India that includes languages like Santhali, Kurux, Kharia, Pnar, Khasi and so on. Prof. Shailendra Mohan has contributed lot to language studies in India through his teaching and scores of research papers and books prior to joining CIIL. 

Dr. Shrikant Mane 

Dr. Mane brings expertise for genomic and proteomic analyses using both microarray and high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies. He received his Ph.D. in Cancer Biology in 1985 and did his Postdoc at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Yale Center for Genome Analysis (YCGA) Shared Resource and the Director of The Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory at Yale. He has published more than 125 articles, holds 2 patents, and has amassed over 25 years of research experience in both academic and private industry. He has attracted significant funding from NIH and other sources to maintain cutting edge genomic technologies at Yale. Currently, Dr. Mane is one of four PIs of the Yale Center for Mendelian Genomics established in 2012 through an $11.2 million-dollar grant from NHGRI. Besides directing the YCGA, he pursues research in the field of neuroscience. Dr. Mane has a demonstrated record of establishing a successful and productive genomic facility that has provided over 58,000 sequence analyses (library prep, sequencing and analyses) to 225 Yale and 124 non-Yale principal investigators from 72 national and 16 international institutions. 

Prof. G. Narahari Sastry

Prof. Sastry is a well know researchers in the field of non-covalent interaction, Bucky bowl chemistry, aromaticity, pericyclic reaction. He has made a great contribution in open-source software development in the field of Computer Aided Drug Discovery, databases, web servers, all the resources developed by his group are freely accessible to the scientific community. His group has published more than 300 research articles in reputed journals with an active average impact factor. Most of his papers are well cited with the citation score 12,672 an h-index of 54, and an i10-index of 235, as per the google scholar. His group has mainly contributed and maintained various web-based platforms and databases like a) MPDS (for several diseases), b) CAD, c) A2ID, d) PLID e) NEI-MPDB, f) OSADHI.

Dr. Ankit Srivastava 

Dr. Ankit Srivastava works in the West Bengal  National University of Juridical Sciences India. his major research areas of his interest are Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Biology, Forensic Physical  Science, Physical Chemistry, Forensic Toxicology, and DNA Typing. His current research focuses on Disease Genetics and Transcriptomics.Dr. Srivastava conferred the Ph.D. degree in Forensic Science. Previously he has rendered services to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Institute of Forensic Science & Criminology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (Ranked as No. 1 State University of Uttar Pradesh) as an Assistant Professor as well as Head/Coordinator . He has also been attached to different administrative positions like Assistant Proctor and Assistant Dean Student Welfare in Bundelkhand University, Jhansi. He has 14 years research experience. During his 14 years of journey, he has authored several research papers published in different journals of national and international depute. He has been visited and invited by various countries namely, U.S., U.K., Netherland, Singapore, Thailand, China, New Zealand and Czech Republic for lectures and presentations. More than 70 students have qualified UGC-NET/JRF exam under his guidance. In addition to this, he is also Editorial Board Member in different journals of national and international fame. He is also providing his services as reviewer in various journals. He has organized more than 07 National/International level conferences and seminars in Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Institute of Forensic Science & Criminology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi.

Dr. Udai Bhan Pandey 

Dr. Udai Bhan Pandey is professor of human genetics at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has completed his PhD from Medical Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India and recieved various  Fellowship  like Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia (J. Paul Taylor’s lab)
Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis (J. Paul Taylor’s lab). his research intrest is in Developing small animal and mammalian neuronal models to understand human neurodegenerative diseases as well as to investigate cellular and molecular basis of human neurodegenerative diseases and Identifying novel genetic and pharmacological modifiers of motor neuron diseases.

Arindam Maitra

Arindam maitra is associate director & professor. His research Interest is in Unraveling the transcriptomic diversity of OSCC tumour ecosystem Deciphering the functional genomics of preterm birth Understanding gene regulation in human health Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens.

In 2000 he has completed his Ph.D from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and M. Sc from University College of Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata and B. Sc from Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

Mohammed S Mustak 

Dr. Mohammed S Mustak is currently working as Professor and Chairman in the Department of Applied Zoology, Mangalore University, Karnataka, India. After his PhD degree in CFTRI- Mysore , He continued his Post doctoral Research  at Graduate School of Medical Sciences -Tottori University, Yonago, Japan. Dr. Mustak’s specialisation is on population and evolutionary genetics. His area of research interest are to solve the debatable question such as the historic civilisation of south west of India focusing on settlement pattern and genetic structure of the modern human population of Lakshadweep islands , Kerala  and Karantaka.

Dr. Manjunath B Joshi 

Dr. Manjunath B Joshi works in department of Ageing Research at the Manipal School of Life Sciences. he completed his doctoral and post-doctoral studies from Basel University, Basel, Switzerland and presently working as Professor in Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Research team of Dr. Joshi aims to understand cellular and signalling mechanisms at the interface of inflammation and metabolism in neutrophils in the context of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and its complications. The team examines how alterations in immuno-metabolic axis influence formation of neutrophil extracellular traps and contributes to T2D associated recurrent infections and vascular diseases. Other research interests of lab involve in understanding crosstalk between inflammation (IL-6) and epigenetic mechanisms (DNA methylation) in regulating pathological angiogenesis in T2D and breast tumors. The lab has also set up a mass spectrometry facility for metabolomics analysis.   

Dr. Rajesh Pandey

Dr. Rajesh Pander is currently working as Scientist at Institute of genomics and integrative biology (CSIR). His Area of Expertise is in Integrative Genomics of Host-Pathogen, Application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies for high-throughput, cost-effective genetic assays.

Functional genomics, especially RNA biology in general and non-coding RNA in particular. Disease models (inclusive of Organoids) for understanding disease mechanism. 

Dr. Irene Gallego Romero 

Associate Professor Irene Gallego Romero studies the contributions of gene regulation to human diversity and evolution, and its implications for personalised medicine. She is currently a principal research fellow at St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, where she leads the Human Evolutionary Genomics group, and was previously a group leader at the University of Melbourne and a Nanyang Assistant Professor at NTU in Singapore. As a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago she established non-human primate iPSC lines as model systems for comparative genomics and studies of human evolution. Since moving to Australia in 2017 her research has focused on underserved populations from Island Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on the peopling of the Indonesian archipelago and the interactions between Homo sapiens and other, now extinct, regional hominins.  

Iain Mathieson 

Iain mathieson is associate professor of Genetics Iain is developing methods for inference of demography and selection from ancient DNA, and for the interpretation of genome-wide association studies. he has completed his BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, 2005 and MPhil  in Statistical Science from Cambridge University, 2006 as well as DPhil in Genomic Medicine & Statistics Oxford University, 2013.  

Dr. Vikas Bansal 

Dr. Vikas Bansal is group leader at German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) . He has completed his PhD thesis from Freie University Berlin, Germany and Master of Sciencefrom King’s College London, UK and from Bachelor of Science, Punjab University Chandigarh, India. talking of his activities in scientific community since 2020 he is review Editor for Human and Medical Genomics and since 2013 Member of International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). in 2019 he was awarded with Career Development Fellowship, DZNE  and in 2012 he was awarded with Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship, European Commission.

MANVENDRA SINGH

Dr. Manvendra Singh is a computational biologist at the Max-Planck Institute, focusing on neurological disorders. His research explores the interactions between hippocampal cells and human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) to understand major depressive disorder. Previously, he studied HERVs' impact on the immune system at Cornell University. His doctoral research at the Max-Delbrueck Center investigated HERVs' role in embryonic and placental development. Dr. [Name] has a decade of experience studying HERVs' influence on human physiology. He uses single-cell biology, computational methods, and genetic/epigenetic experiments to analyze HERVs' molecular pathways. His research has led to significant publications and recognition in the scientific community. Currently, he is investigating the crosstalk between HERVs, metabolism, and innate immunity in major depressive disorders. 

Dr. Ranajit Das, PhD

Dr. Ranjit Das works at Yenepoya Research Centre, Karnataka 

India. He is population geneticist by training with expertise in biostatistics, evolutionary bioinformatics and molecular evolution. 

Dr. Rakesh Tamang, PhD

Dr. Rakesh tamang is Professor (Assistant) at University of Calcutta India. His research interest lies in understanding the Modern Human Origin and Peopling of the World. His team also works to identify the changes in the genome corresponding to the immediate environment and investigate the medical implications on human genetic diversity among the Indian populations. He also deals with the studies of fauna of the Darjeeling Hill Region using molecular tools.

Neeraj Arora 

Neeraj Arora is lab director (Molecular Biology) of Unipath Speciality Laboratory, Ahmedabad. He is director at (Molecular Genetics) Unipath Specialty Laboratory Limited - India his Skills and Expertise is in Leukemia Hematological Malignancies Lymphoma Hematologic Diseases CLL Hematology Oncology Molecular Genetics Hematopathology.

Dr. Manjari Jonnalagadda 

Dr. Manjari Jonnalagadda Assistant Professor at SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Interested in genetics of South Asian populations. My doctoral research focused on understanding skin pigmentation variation among populations of this region i.e. west Maharashtra and understand the evolution of the same. 

Kartik Sunagar, PhD.

Kartik Sunagar is an evolutionary ecologist specializing in animal venoms. He has received several awards for his research, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship and a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. He has also been a postdoctoral researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Porto.