Lab Alumni

Ardhendu Chakrabortty, Ph.D. Student

Ardhendu joined the lab in 2018. In his post-graduation from BHU, he has worked on the wound response of plants. At IIT Jodhpur, for his Ph.D., he used multi-omics methods (16S, shotgun WGS and metabolomics) to study the effect of metformin on individual gut microbiota. Currently, he is a Research Associate at NABI, Mohali and is working on rhizosphere microbiomes.

Kausalya S

Kausalya joined IIT jodhpur as a M.Tech. student in July 2022. She pursued her B.Tech. in Biotechnology from Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology affiliated to Anna University. She developed a keen interest in bacterial genetics and built skillsets in the field of molecular genetics and recombinant DNA technology. Her work focused on exploring the regulation of virulence factors, by small-RNA in Klebsiella pneumoniae. She enjoys dancing, trekking, and traveling. Kausalya is currently a Project Associate at NIOT, Chennai.

Shubham Kumar

Shubham joined IIT Jodhpur as an M.Tech student in July 2021. He has completed a B.Tech. in Biotechnology from Amity University, Noida. He worked with great enthusiasm with a very keen interest to develop his skillsets the field of genomics and metagenomics. His work applied Oxford Nanopore metagenomics to study the microbial communities that form the biological soil crusts of the Thar desert. Apart from work, he loves to play badminton, watch cricket and read non-fictional books. Shubham worked as a Project Associate at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune for a few years after graduating. Currently, he is a PhD student at KU Leuven, supported by the prestigious MELiSSA POMP4 Fellowship, where he studies Space Life Support Systems.

Sharvika Khochare

Sharvika graduated in 2022 with an M.Tech. degree from the Department of BSBE, IIT Jodhpur. She worked on setting up the strategy to make gene deletions in Klebsiella pneumoniae in our lab and went on to design deletion constructs for key RNA chaperones in K. pneumoniae. Her work earned her the top grade for her thesis. Sharvika is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center-EMBL Partnership for Genome Editing Technologies in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Anuja warrier

Anuja graduated in 2022 with an M.Tech. degree from the Department of BSBE, IIT Jodhpur. She worked on identifying novel determinants of hypermucoviscosity in Klebsiella pneumoniae P34, which does not harbour any known determinants of hypermucoviscosity. She earned the top grade for her thesis. Anuja s currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia.

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