Dr. GPS Raghava: Current
                                  Alumni
Dr. Balvinder Singh: Current
                                      Alumni
Dr. Manoj Kumar: Current
                                  Alumni
Mr.Harvinder Jassal: Current
                                        Alumni

Project Staff working under Dr. GPS Raghava

Click here for Alumni (students worked as Project Fellow/Project Assistant)

Mr. Kumardeep Chaudhary

  

Background

He graduated in Zoology (Hons.) from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He was awarded Gold Medal in graduation. He did M.Sc. in Systems Biology & Bioinformatics from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has recently submitted his Ph.D thesis and currently he works as a senior project fellow under the supervision of Dr. G. P. S. Raghava at Bioinformatics Centre of Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh.

Area of Interest

His broad interests include: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Next Generation Sequencing, Proteomics, Biomakers, GWAS, Genome Medicine, Personalized Medicine, Medical Health. His ultimate goal is to improvise upon translational health for the benefit of mankind.

Present Status

He is currently Senior Project Fellow and is involved in RNAi-based anticancer therapy along with biomarker identifications for cancer progression and metastasis. He has also contributed in the fields of peptide informatics, immunology, proteogenomics, creating customized operative system (OSDDlinux).

Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dhanda

  

Background

He passed his graduation (Chemistry, Botany and Zoology) from Govt. P.G. College, Hisar (Kurukshetra University), Haryana. He did M.Sc (Medical Biotechnology) from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana. He has recently submitted his Ph.D. thesis entitled "In silico approaches for designing subunit vaccine against the emerging strains of mycobacterium tuberculosis" under the supervision of Dr. G.P.S. Raghava at Bioinformatics Centre of Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh.

Area of Interest

Immunoinformatic and Peptide based vaccine designing & Diagnostics, Next Generation Sequncing, Genomics and Personalised Vaccine.

Present Status

He is currently Senior Project Fellow and is involved in understanding immunoinformatics and its experimental design study.

Dr. Ankur Gautam

  

Background

He earned his Master (Bio-Technology) and doctoral degrees from Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Area of Interest

Therapeutic peptide designing and prediction, identification and characterization of novel cell-penetrating peptides and anti-cancer peptides.

Present Status

I joined BIC on Jan, 2011 as postdoctral research fellow (DBT). Presently, I am Senior research associate(CSIR Pool scientist's scheme). I am working on In-silico designing and experimental characterization of therapeutic peptides.

Dr. Hemant Kumar Srivastava

  

Area of Interest

Computational chemistry, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Present Status

Research Scientist under CSIR pool scheme

Background

More than 10 years of postdoctoral experince in various national and international laboratoreis.

Mrs. Deepti Sethi

  

Area of Interest

Structural and functional analysis of proteins, Design and validation of peptide based therapeutics.

Present Status

Currently, She is a research associate with Dr. G. P. S. Raghava, Bioinformatics Centre, IMTECH

Background

She received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Biophysics (Hons School) from Department of Biophysics, Panjab University Chandigarh. Thereafter, she earned her doctoral degree from the Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh.

Mr. Gaurav Kishor

  

Area of Interest

Bio-informatics (Structural Bio-informatics and Chemo informatics etc.

Present Status

Project Fellow and is currently dealing in Molecular Modeling and Docking, Development of Webserver and Database

Background

He is post-graduate in Bio-Informatics from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Ranchi). He had completed his graduation in Bio-Informatics from Christian Eminent College (Affiliated to Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya), Indore.

Ms. Gursimran Bedi

  

Area of Interest

Molecular biology, proteomics and database development

Present Status

Project Fellow and currently working on databases,"Therapeutic peptides and proteins" and "Skin penetrating peptides". Involved in experimental validation of various characteristics of skin penetrating peptides and HPLC.

Background

Graduate(Gold medalist) in Biotechnology(Hons.) from G.G.D.S.D. College, Chandigarh. Post graduate in Biotechnology(Hons.) from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Worked as a project fellow in the department of biotechnology, P.U. and currently working as a project fellow under the supervision of Dr.G.P.S. Raghava at Bioinformatics centre of IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Ms. Ayesha Mehta

  

Area of Interest

Biochemistry, Recombinant DNA, Bioinformatics and Computational study of proteins and its applications.

Present Status

Project Fellow

Background

Bachelor of Technology (Biotechnology) from National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (Punjab). Master of Technology (Biotechnology) from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara (Punjab). Currently working as a project fellow under the supervision of Dr.G.P.S. Raghava at Bioinformatics centre of IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Ms. Niharika Chaudhary

  

Background

She did Integrated BE+ME in Computer Science from Chitkara University, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. She has also done training course in C#.Net from Society for Promotion of IT in Chandigarh (SPIC-Microsoft Centre of Excellence), PEC Campus, Chandigarh.

Area of Interest

Web Designing (HTML, CSS, PHP, WordPress)

Present Status

Currently working as Project Assistant at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Project Staff working under Dr. Balvinder Singh

Ms. Sangita Kachhap

  

Background

She graduated in Biotechnology from Ranchi University, Ranchi. She earned masters degree in Biotechnology from University of Calicut, Kerala and doctoral degree in Bioinformatics from CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh.

Area of Interest

Protein-DNA specific recognition mechanism, effect of linker length on DNA binding ability of HapR, Screening of epitopic site of glycated hemoglobin HbA1c for specific immunoassay development, enhancing catalytic activity of uricase by introducing active site residues mutations.

Present Status

Currently she is Senior Project Fellow, working on protein-protein cooperative interaction required for protein-DNA ternary complex formation and effect of point mutation in HapR function.

Mr. Amarinder Singh Thind

  

Background

He did B.tech in Biotechnology from IASE University, Rajasthan and M.tech in Bioinformatics from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

Area of Interest

Translational immunology, (Webserver, databases and tool development), NGS analysis

Present Status

Currently he is Project Fellow, working on protein modeling pipeline to provide better platform for modelling various types of proteins.

Project Staff working under Dr. Manoj Kumar

Mr. Abid Qureshi

  

Background

Abid Qureshi graduated in science from Sri Pratap College, Srinagar Kashmir (2008). He completed his masters in biotechnology from Kashmir University (2010). He has also done diploma in computer applications. He joined IMTECH in august 2010 and did his PhD under Dr. Manoj Kumar at Bioinformatics Centre of Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh. His topic was "Development of Bioinformatics tools for Antiviral molecules". He submitted his thesis in august 2015 and is currently working as a Senior Project Fellow (SPF) under Dr. Manoj Kumar.

Area of Interest

Antiviral molecules, HIV, RNA interference, siRNA, miRNA, Peptides, Drugs, Machine learning, Prediction, Web programming, Databases, Data visualization, QSAR

Present Status

Working as Senior Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Ms. Anamika Thakur

  

Background

She is a graduate in Bioinformatics (Hons.) and Post graduate in Bioinformatics from SGGS College, Chandigarh.

Area of Interest

Development of Bioinformatics tools for RNAi, Machine learning, Prediction tool for subcellular localization.

Present Status

Currently working as a Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Ms. Gazaldeep Kaur

  

Background

She completed her Bachelors degree in Bioinformatics from Post Grad. Govt. College for Girls (PGGCG-42), Chandigarh, and Masters degree in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Also worked as a Lecturer (Bioinformatics) in PGGCG-42.

Area of Interest

Development of resources for apoptosis specific phosphorylation and antiviral therapeutics

Present Status

Currently working as a Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Ms. Shivangi Sharma

  

Background

She is a graduate in Biotechnology from Kanoria college and post graduate in Bioinformatics from Banasthali University, Rajasthan.

Area of Interest

Development of Bioinformatics tools and resources for antiviral therapeutics, Machine learning, computational structural biology.

Present Status

Currently working as a Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Project Staff working under Mr. Harvinder Jassal

Mr. Ankesh Aditya

  

Background

He is graduated in B.Tech (IT) from Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow. He did training course in Computer Hardware & Networking and owns CCNA Certification. He has also done 1 year Apprentice Training from Bharat Electronics Limited, Panchkula.

Area of Interest

Computer Hardware & Networking.

Present Status

Currently working as a Project Assistant at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Mr. Gaurav Patti

  

Background

He is graduated in B.Tech (ECE) from Sri Sukhmani Institute of Engineering and Technology, Punjab Technical University. He did training in Networking from HCL Infosystems and also did training from CSIR-CEERI in Networking.

Area of Interest

Computer Hardware, Software & Networking.

Present Status

Currently working as a Project Assistant at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh.

Alumni

Project Staff worked under Dr. GPS Raghava

Ms. Soma

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

NA

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NA

Mr. Deepak Garg

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

NA

Present Status

NA

Mr. Rakesh Kaundal

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

NA

Present Status

Research Scientist, Bioinformatics, Oklahoma state University, USA

Mr. Varun Thakur

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

NA

Present Status

NA

Mr. Balakrishan Sharma

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

NA

Present Status

NA

Mr. Jitin Arora

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

NA

Present Status

NA

Mr. Arun Sharma

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

NA

Present Status

PhD student at IGIB.

Dr. Pooja Vir

  

Worked As

Research Associate

Year

NA

Present Status

Research Associate at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA.

Ms. Pallavi Kapoor

  

Worked As

Senior research fellow

Year

NA

Present Status

Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli

Dr. Surendra Vikram

  

Worked As

Senior Project Fellow

Year

2013

Present Status

Post Doc. University of Pretoria, South Africa

Dr. Balveer Singh

  

Worked As

Research Associate

Year

2013-14

Present Status

Post doctoral Fellow at Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.

Mr. Atul Tyagi

  

Worked As

Senior Project Fellow

Year

2009-2015

Present Status

Phd Student at CIMAP, Lucknow, India.

Ms. Minakshi Sharma

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

NA

Present Status

PhD student at RCB, Gurgaon, India.

Mr. Abhishek Tuknait

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

2013-2015

Present Status

SSC services, India.

Ms. Anshika joshi

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

2013-2015

Present Status

NA

Ms. Priya Anand

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

2013-2015

Present Status

NA

Dr. Ravi Kumar

  

Worked As

Senior Project Fellow

Year

2013-2014

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, State of Columbia, USA.

Dr. H. Rahman Ansari

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

2005-2006

Present Status

Postdoctoral Fellow, Pathogen genomics Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Dr. Ruchi

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

Present Status

Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Arti Garg

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

Present Status

Dr. Surendra Kumar

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

Present Status

Sandhya Agarwal

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

Present Status

Anuj Pathak

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

Present Status

Post Doctoral Associate(August 2011 - present) Department of Microbiology, tumor and cell biology,Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden.

Ms. Navjyot Kaur

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

Present Status

Dr. Jagat S. Chauhan

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

2013-2014

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow at University of Oxford, UK.

Dr. Bharat Panwar

  

Worked As

Senior Project Fellow

Year

2013-2015

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow at Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, USA.

Dr. Sudheer Gupta

  

Worked As

Senior Project Fellow

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow at IISER Bhopal, M.P., India

Dr. Harinder Singh

  

Worked As

Senior Project Fellow

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow in Craig Venter Institute, USA.

Dr. Jagpreet Singh Nanda

  

Worked As

Research Associate

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

Scientist in reliance R&D, Mumbai

Dr. Jesse S. Samuels

  

Worked As

Research Associate

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

Presently working as Biology Application Specialist in the Marketing and Business Development Department of Sigma Aldrich India.

Ms. Manisha Dahiya

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

PhD student at RCB, Gurgaon

Ms. Priyanka Firmal

  

Worked As

Project Assistant

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

PhD student at NCCS, Pune

Mr. Sourav Kalra

  

Worked As

Senior Project Fellow

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

PhD student at Central University of Punjab, Bhatinda,Punjab.

Dr. Satya Prakash

  

Worked As

Senior Project Fellow

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

Research Associate at TIFR, Hyderabad, India.

Mr.Pawan kumar

  

Worked As

Project Fellow

Year

2014-2015

Present Status

Technical assisstant in Spice mobile communication Mohali, Punjab, India.

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