Qualifications
1. Amity University, India, Biotechnology, Ph.D. ,2015
Dissertation (Computational & Mathematical): Modeling and analysis of human energy metabolic network.
2. Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, Bioinformatics, Master of Science, 2007
Dissertation 1 (Computational): Identification of T-cell epitope and HLA binding site for Wuchereria bancrofti, the causative organism of lymphatic filariasis.
Dissertation 2 (Experimental & Computational): PCR and sequence analysis of the capsule locus in hyper invasive strains of Campylobacter jejuni.
3. Amity University, India, Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science with Honors, 2006
Dissertation (Experimental): Overproduction of recombinant protein from Escherichia coli cell.
Experience
9 years
1. Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, India, March, 2009 – present
Assistant Professor, Computational and Systems Biology
Responsibility1: I am involved in teaching Bioinformatics core subjects like Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Perl for Biologist, Computational Systems Biology, MATLAB programming for biologist. I also undertake hands-on practical classes for the above subjects. Students undergo interesting systems biology and network biology based short-term projects under my supervision.
Responsibility2: Coordinator – Corporate Resource Centre and Ph.D programmes
AIB-CRC brings together the Pharma-Biotech-Healthcare industry and academia close to each other and provides need based education and organizational support. I am shouldering the responsibility of organizing inviting companies for in-campus interviews for student placement and training. We also organize corporate guests’ lectures and industry interaction. I also take care of the management of Ph.D programmes running at AIB, Noida.
2. Krupanidhi Degree College, Bangalore, India, October, 2007 – February, 2009
Lecturer, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biochemistry
Responsibility: Teaching Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Biochemistry to under-graduate students. Coordinating B.Sc Biotechnology and B.Sc Microbiology courses for under graduate studies.
Current Courses Taught
Introduction to Computational Biology
Computational Systems Biology
Systems Biology
MATLAB Application in Bioinformatics
Perl for Biologist
Research Interests
My research goal is broadly focused on the developments and applications of computational models and tools for predicting and analyzing the behaviors of complex physiological systems ranging over multiple scales of organization from molecular level to the tissue/organ level. The overall goal of this research is to work towards a quantitative understanding of the functioning of the physiological systems under normal and pathological conditions (health and diseases), and guiding engineering-based manipulations of the systems. I have the utmost urge to collaborate with experimental physiologists to develop an integrated research combining computational modeling of cellular functions and experimental measurements in isolated organ systems like mammalian muscles, liver, heart, etc.
The greatest motivation for pursuing further research in systems level study emerged from my fully annotated predictive model designed under the assigned model identifier http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/BIOMD0000000579 accepted and published by EBI BioModels. This model is termed as HEPNet: Human energy Pool Network, which is also my Ph.D thesis work. It is a knowledge base model of human energy pool network for predicting the energy availability status of an individual. Presently, I am taking this research forward by incorporating the integration of high-throughput data. By utilizing the high-throughput data, HEPNet can be tailored further to cell and tissue-specific networks which can lead to contextualization of high-throughput data from pathological and drug-treated states.
Teaching Interests
My teaching philosophy is to offer practical skills, train students to think beyond and encourage social responsibility
I am involved in teaching theory and hands-on lab sessions of Bioinformatics core subject of Bioinformatics to B.Tech Bioinformatics and advanced course of Computational Systems Biology at the PG level. I was also actively involved in developing the course structures and curriculum of B.Tech Bioinformatics
Professional Affiliations
Member (Society of Mathematical Biology)
Professional Activities
1. International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at IIIT-Allahabad on 4-6 March, 2016.
2. Indo-UK symposium on “Stem cell, Cancer and Drug Discovery” at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida on 15th Feb, 2016.
3. International Conference on Innovative Research in Biotechnology, Biomedical Sciences, Bioinformatics and Stem Cell Applications at JNU, New Delhi on 30th Jan, 2016.
4. Workshop on Computer Aided Drug and Biologics Discovery at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida on 23-24 Nov, 2015.
5. Indo-US conference and workshop on “ Synthetic and Systems Biology” at School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, JNU, New Delhi on 9-12 Nov, 2014
6. Workshop Cum Training on Computational Genome Analysis Techniques in discovery of agronomically important crop genes. September 24th-29th, 2012, at NBPGR, Pusa, New Delhi.
7. National Symposium on “HIV and AIDS: Biology to Bedside” on March 15-16th, 2012 at Amity University, Noida.
8. International Conference on “Perspectives in Phyllosphere Biology” at Amity University, Noida (15th-17th February 2012).
9. International Interdisciplinary Science Conference-2011 on Bioinformatics – An Interface between Computer Science and Biology at Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi (Nov, 2011)
10. Scientific Writing and Publishing workshop organized by American Society For Microbiology together with Amity Science and Technology Innovation Foundation at Amity University, Noida (25th May, 2011)
11. DST sponsored workshop on “ Nature inspired optimization algorithms” at IIT, Roorkee (March, 2011)
12. Workshop on ‘ High Impact Teaching Skills ’ attested by DALE CARNEGIE & ASSOCIATES, Inc. Trainer and Wipro (Oct, 2009)
13. AICTE sponsored National Seminar on Current trends in Bio-analytical Techniques at Krupanidhi College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, India (2009)
14. Post Graduate Research Conference at Nottingham Trent University, School of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, United Kingdom (2007)
15. Open day workshop on Computational Drug Design and Clinical Trials at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2007)
Other Achievements
International travel grant as young scientist by DST-SERB, Govt. of India, to attend a week long (3rd-8th July, 2016) training course on “In Silico Systems Biology” organized by Wellcome Trust, UK, at EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Contact Information
Amity Institute of Biotechnology (AIB)