Scientist C & Co-ordinator
Bioinformatics facility RGCB
Profile
The laboratory uses an integrated evolutionary bioinformatics platform to understand disease biology with particular focus on better understanding of origin, adaptation, transmission and evolution of pathogenicity and antibiotic-resistance among microbes in a wide variety of environments.
Academic Positions
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DST-INSPIRE Faculty
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
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Post-doctoral Fellow
Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany (Supervisor Prof. Dr. William F. Martin)
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Post-doctoral Fellow
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Tal Dagan)
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PhD stipend
Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany (Supervisor Prof. Dr. William F. Martin)
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Research Assistant
Institute of Biomedical Sciences (IBMS), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (Supervisor: Dr. Ming-Jing Hwang)
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Project Trainee & Research assistant
Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India (Supervisor: Prof. Somdatta Sinha)
Education
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PhD 2009-2013
(Dr. rer. nat.) Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
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MSc Bioinformatics 2004-2006
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
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BSc Computer Science 2001-2004
Kerala University, India
Awards
- 2019Young Scientist Award, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE)
- Young researcher startup grant [SFF - F 2015/946-7] - Strategic Research Fund (SFF), Heinrich-Heine University, Germany - 83,998 Euro for 2 years
- 2016Karl-Arnold Pries, Outstanding Young Researcher Award, North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences Humanities and the Arts, May 11, Düsseldorf, Germany (10,000 EUR)
- 2015Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) International Young Bioinformatician Award 2015, Laureate announced during 12th [BC]2 - the Basel Computational Biology Conference, June 08-10, Basel, Switzerland (10,000 CHF)
- 2015Travel grant ,'Kick-off Conference: Life? - A New Funding Initiative Introduces Itself', Dec 17-18, Hannover, Germany (200 Euro)
- 2015Young Investigator Travel Award, SMBE 2015, Annual Meeting of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, July 12-17, Vienna, Austria (1500 Euro)
- 2014International Travel Award, Symbioses becoming permanent: the origins and evolutionary trajectories of organelles. Sackler Symposium of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. October 16-17, Irvine, CA (300 Dollar)
- 2014First prize, poster presentation - SMBE satellite meeting on reticulated microbial evolution April 27 - 30, Kiel, Germany
- 2007International summer school fellowship (FIND project 2007) at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK
- 2006Summer traineeship at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
Memberships
Member, Editorial board of Discover Viruses-Springer Nature
Member, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) (2010-)
Reviewership Editorships
Genome Biology and Evolution
Microbial Genomics
Bioinformatics
