Research Interests:
Research Interests:
š§āš» Investigation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) mechanisms in fungal and bacterial pathogens using multi omics and machine learning methods.Ā
Molecular Biology, Comparative Genomics, Proteomics, Database & Web Servers Development and ImplementationĀ
Next-Generation Sequencing Techniques & Analysis, Machine Learning for Genomic & Proteomic Insights and Data Interpretation
Conferences, Awards & Recognition:
Finalist in the U21-RISE awards for a translatory project- SEVA (Surveillance tools for Early Vigilance of AMR (antimicrobial resistance) LinkĀ
Best Oral Presentation Award at the International Conference of Bioinformatics by Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network at Kolkata, India, September 2025
ISCB & ISCB-SC Travel Grant for research presentation and representing the council's Education & Internships Committee at 33rd Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology & the 24th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB-ECCB), Liverpool, UK, July 2025
CSIR Travel Grant for presenting research at the 35th Congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Vienna, Austria, April 2025
Research Publication Award 2023 by Institute of Eminence, University of Delhi for our publication describing one of the first databases for fungal drug resistance mutations LinkĀ
ANRF DST-SERB Travel Grant for research presentation at the 1st Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference (APBJC), Okinawa, Japan, October 2024
ISCB Travel Grant for Research Presentation in the Young Scientist Category and for representing the society's student council at the 32nd Genome Informatics Workshop & 6th International Society of Computational Biology-Asia Conference (GIW-ISCB Asia), Singapore, November 2023
Ā Community Engagement, Leadership & Professional Memberships:
Active Member of the Education & Internships Committee ISCB Student Council 2025 - Present
Selected Participant for Dialogue on Leadership Roles for Women in Academia, IIT Bombay, Feb 2025.
Core Advisor ISCB RSG India 2024 - Present
President ISCB RSG-India 2023-2024
Student Ambassador APBioNET 2023-24
ASCS2024, Okinawa, Japan - Steering Committee Member
ASCS2023 Symposium Co-chair & Programme Committee Chair (Flagship symposium of ISCB Student council in the Asia Pacific Region)
SCS2023, Lyon France - Program Committee Member (Flagship symposium of ISCB Student council)
Recurring Mentor in ISCB Youth Bioinformatics Symposium
Member of Eurpoean Society for Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), International Society for Human & Animal Mycology (ISHAM), International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) and Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNET)
Aakriti Jain
Doctoral candidate since 2022