Alumni

Thesis: Weak auto-inhibition of Toxoplasma gondii importin alpha: implications for parasite biology and designing inhibitors

Manasi is a Research Investigator at Iuva Labs, a start-up at the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) at IIT Bombay.

Joint student with Prof. Sanjeeva Srivastava.

Thesis: Comprehensive proteomics investigation of vivax malaria towards developing a panel for next-generation diagnostics and prognostics 

Shalini did her first postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and is now a postdoc at Boston College.

Student of the IITB-Monash Research Academy and a joint student with David Jans (Monash University)

Thesis: "Screening for inhibitors of nuclear import in Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii"

Sujata stayed on in the lab as a postdoctoral fellow and moved to the US to join Arun Wiita's lab at UCSF.

Thesis: "Translational control of gene expression via upstream open reading frames in Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii"

Chhaminder stayed on as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab and then moved on to do her "real" postdoc in the US at Elizabeth Egan's lab at Stanford .

Joint student with Prof. Sanjeeva Srivastava

Thesis: "Comprehensive plasma proteomic analysis of non-severe and severe falciparum malaria to investigate disease pathobiology"

Vipin joined Cytiva, NCR, New Delhi, as a mass spectrometry specialist.

Thesis: "Molecular signals involved in trafficking of a dually targeted antioxidant protein Thioredoxin Peroxidase 1/2 in Toxoplasma gondii"

Pragati joined Cactus Communications, Mumbai as a scientific writer.

Joint student with Prof. Sanjeeva Srivastava

Thesis: "Proteomics and metabolomics approaches to understand disease biology and pathogenesisof severe vivax malaria"

Sandip joined The Burke Lab at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral fellow.

Joint student with Prof. Sanjeeva Srivastava

Thesis: "Identification of Parasite Protein Targets for Plasmodium vivax Malaria Diagnosis and Exposure"

Apoorva did a Specialized Masters in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and is currently working with Johnson & Johnson in Switzerland.

Thesis: "Dissecting the molecular mechanism of lack of auto-inhibition in Plasmodium falciparum importin alpha"

Vishakha joined the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh as a Scientist and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in William Sullivan's lab at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Thesis: "Studying the effect of upstream ORFs and upstream AUGs on the expression of downstream ORF in Plasmodium falciparum"

Mayank joined Wockhardt as a research scientist after completing his Ph.D. and then moved on as an Assistant Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Mumbai. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Patna University.

Thesis: "Dissecting the signals involved in the trafficking of Plasmodium falciparum Glutathione peroxidase-like thioredoxin peroxidase"

Aishwarya joined Novartis, Hyderabad as a regulatory medical writer after completing her PhD and is currently a medical writer at IQVIA, London.

Thesis: "Translation: Mechanisms and regulations in Plasmodium falciparum"

Vivek joined the Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle as a postdoctoral fellow and currently works at Novo Nordisk in Bengaluru.

Student of the IITB-Monash Research Academy and a joint student with Brian Cooke and Ross Coppel (Monash University)

Thesis: "Functional properties and arrangement of Apicomplexan tubulin and the action of anti-tubulin compounds as chemotherapeutic agents"

Rimi joined the NIH International Center for Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR), University of Washington as a Research Associate. She works at the ICEMR center at Goa, and travels to many parts of India and the world for her research.

Thesis: "An insertion in the methyltransferase domain of P. falciparum Trimethylguanosine synthase harbors a classical nuclear localisation signal"

Prasad joined as a Research Associate at the NIH International Center for Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR), University of Washington. He works at the ICEMR center in Goa.

Joint student with Prof. Sanjeeva Srivastava

Thesis: "Proteomic analysis of serum in vivax and falciparum malaria patients to investigate pathogenesis and identify surrogate protein of infection"

Sandipan joined University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral fellow after his PhD and is currently an Assistant Professor at IIT Hyderabad.

Thesis: "In vivo functional characterisation of Glutathione peroxidase from Plasmodium falciparum"

Rahul joined as a postdoctoral fellow in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and worked as the CTO of Module Innovations Pvt. Ltd. at NCL Innovation Park, Pune. He is currently the co-founder and CTO of WildTechDNA, a start-up in Canada.

Thesis: "In-silico and in-vivo analysis of translation initiation sites from Plasmodium falciparum"

Balu joined the Vignan Institute of Technology & Science, Andhra Pradesh after completing his PhD in 2010.

He currently holds the position of Director of Operations at Loka Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. in Hyderabad.

Thesis: "Identification and characterisation of small nuclear RNAs of Plasmodium falciparum"

Praveen joined as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Elisa Izaurralde's lab at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and then was a research associate at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh.

Project: Peptide inhibitors of importin alpha in T. gondii

Janice joined the Iketani lab at Columbia University, New York, after her short but productive postdoc in the lab.

Project: A proteo-genomic analysis of haptoglobin and malaria

Gauri joined SciGenom Labs in Kochi after her post-doctoral work and thereafter worked at Yashraj Biotechnology Ltd. in Navi Mumbai and Reliance Life Sciences.

Project: Proteomic analysis small molecular weight proteins in P. falciparum.

Meghna was an Assistant Professor at IMS College,Ghaziabad, and is currently working at Premas Life Sciences.