Dr. GPS Raghava: Current Students
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Ph.D Students working under Dr. GPS Raghava

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Mr. Sandeep Singh

  

Background

He did his B.Tech in Biotechnology from SHAITS-Allahabad (Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences).
He did his M.Tech in Bioinformatics from IIIT-Allahabad (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh).

Ph.D Research Topic

Structural Bioinformatics, Therapeutic Peptides, Cheminformatics, Database Development.

Area of reasearch

Peptide secondary/tertiary structure prediction and Desigining & prediction of therapeutic peptides and inhibitors using bioinformatics and chemoinformatics approches.

Mr. Gandharv Nagpal

  

Background

He passed his graduation B.Sc Hons. in (Zoology) from Hans Raj College, (Delhi University). He did M.Sc (Biomedical Sciences) from Dr. B.R Ambedkar center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi.

Ph.D Research Topic

Role of methylation in Cancer.

Present Status

Developement of a database of gene methylation in pancreatic cancer.

Ms. Deepika Mathur

  

Background

She did her graduation (Chemistry, Botany and Zoology) from Navyug Girls Degree College, Lucknow (Lucknow University). She did M.Sc (Biotechnology) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P.

Ph.D Research Topic

Rational designing of Therapeutic Peptides

Present Status

In-silico study for optimization of stability of therapeutic peptides.

Ms. Sherry Bhalla

  

Background

She is graduated from GGDSD College,Chandigarh in Bioinformatics. She did M.Sc. in System Biology & Bioinformatics from Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Area of Interest

Data Mining and Prediction of Therapeutic peptides.

Present Status

Analysis of proteomics data to mine biomarkers from biofluids.

Mr. Salman Sadullah Usmani

  

Background

Salman Sadullah Usmani, an AMU alumnus, earned his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry. He was awarded University Gold Medal and Dr. J. I. Memorial Gold Medal for campus level extraordinary academic performance. Exposure to study molecular interaction in his M.Sc. Biotechnology motivated him to explore modern biology using computers. Currently, he is thesis graduate student in IMTECH with Dr. G. P. S. Raghava.

Area of interest

Immunoinformatics, Peptide informatics, Aims at developing unique peptides able to cross cell boundary milieu for efficient delivery of drugs as smart cell transfer agent.

Present Status

Understanding immunoinformatics and expeimental design for efficient cell penetrating peptides.

Mr. Piyush Agrawal

  

Background

Piyush Agrawal belongs to Gorakhpur (U.P). He did his graduation in B.Sc (Hons.) Microbiology from Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi in 2011. He did his post graduation in M.Sc Bioinformatics from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak in 2013 and was Gold Medalist.

Area of interest

Development of novel assay methods for potential drug targets, Chemiinformatics, Immunoinformatics, Cancer genomics and Personalized medicine development.

Present Status

Understanding the mechanism of protein-peptide,protein-ligand interactions and developing the antibodies specific to antigen using in silico approaches

Mr. Rajesh Bhardwaj

  

Background

Rajesh Bhardwaj belongs to Kaithal (Haryana). He did his graduation in Biotechnology( honours) from Kurukshetra university Kurukshetra, Haryana. He did his post graduation in Biotechnology from Kurukshetra University kurukshetra.

Area of interest

Data mining, designing anticancer molecules, software development and artificial intellligence.

Present Status

Designing anticancer molecules and their experimental validation in lab.

Ms. Harpreet Kaur

  

Background

She is Graduated in Biotechnology from S.D. College, Barnala (Punjabi University Patiala) and has completed Post Graduation in MSc(Hons) Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar. She has also worked as Worked as Lecturer (Department of Biotechnolgy) in S.D. College, Barnala, Punjab.

Area of interest

Bioinformatic approach for designing the cancer-homing peptides and other therapeutic peptides with their experimenatal validation, Development of databases.

Present Status

Understanding the in silico approach for designing the cancer-homing peptides and its experimental design.

Mr. Vinod Kumar

  

Background

He did his graduation in Biotechnology from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He did his post graduation in Marine Biotechnology from Goa University.

Area of interest

Using in silico and experimental approaches to develop therapeutic and diagnostics for infections diseases.

Present Status

Development of control strategies in infectious diseases.

Mr. Ritesh Kumar

  

Background

He did his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal (MIT) Karnataka. He completed his M.Tech in Advanced Instrumentation Engineering from AcSIR, New Delhi.

Area of interest

His research interests are Machine learning, Bioinformatics.

Present Status

He is working as a scientist in CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh, INDIA. Currently he is working on understanding smell using machine learning techniques.

Ms. Rishemjit Kaur

  

Background

She did her B.Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation from Thapar University, Patiala. She completed her M.Tech in Advanced Instrumentation Engineering from AcSIR, New Delhi.

Area of interest

Her research interests are Machine learning, Bioinformatics and Optimization methods.

Present Status

She is working as a scientist in CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh, INDIA. Currently she is working on understanding opinion dynamics based optimization.

Mr. Arun Sharma

  

Background

Area of interest

Present Status

Ph.D student at IGIB, New Delhi

Ph.D Students working under Dr. Balvinder Singh

Ms. Pragya Priyadarshini

  

Background

She did B.Sc.(Hons) Zoology from L.N. Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar and M.Sc. Bioinformatics from Central University of Bihar, Patna, Bihar

Area of Interest

Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Protein Modeling and Docking

Present Status

Currently she is a Junior Research Fellow, working with Molecular Dynamics and other bioinformatics approach to understand the structural and functional aspect of membrane and channel proteins and to comprehend the conduction mechanism and effect of mutation on these proteins.

Ph.D Students working under Dr. Manoj Kumar

Mohd. Shoaib Khan

  

Background

He did his BSc. Biotechnology (in 2009) and MSc. Biotechnology (in 2011) from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Area of Interest

Epigenomics particularly, methylation patterns in viruses and their associated hosts implicated in various diseases. Pathogen-specific epitope based vaccine designing by Immunoinformatics

Present Status

Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh- India

Ms. Isha Monga

  

Background

She did graduation from HMV College Jalandhar (GNDU) and M.Sc. (System Biology and Bioinformatics) from UIEAST, PANJAB UNIVERSITY.

Area of interest

Her research interest mainly focuses on the non-coding RNAs like siRNA/miRNA. She is currently working on the informatics based resources in the area of RNAi

Present Status

Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh- India

Mr. Showkat Ahmad Dar

  

Background

He belongs to Srinagar, J&K. A Kashmir University alumnus, did his B. Sc (Biochemistry, Chemistry, Zoology) and M. Sc (Biotechnology under DBT sponsored programme) from Kashmir University.

Area of interest

Development of computational resources for therapeutic siRNAs and experimental validation antiviral therapeutic siRNAs.

Present Status

Ms. Karambir Kaur

  

Background

She has done graduation in Biotechnology from Doaba College, Jalandhar (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar) and has completed her Post graduation in Msc(Hons) Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

Area of interest

Development of resources and tools on CRISPR/Cas system and experimental validation of the same.

Present Status

Senior Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh

Ms. Akanksha Rajput

  

Background

She did her B.Sc (Hons.) and M.Sc in Biotechnology from Banasthali University (Rajasthan)

Area of interest

Computational resources for Quorum Sensing and Biofilm

Present Status

Mr. Amit Kumar Gupta

  

Background

He did his graduation (B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Computer science) from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore (MP). He completed Masters (MSc.) in Bioinformatics from Manipal Life Sciences Centre (MLSC), Manipal University, Karnataka (University First Rank holder). He worked as Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at IIT Bombay.

Area of interest

Viral Genomics, NGS, Machine learning, Web server and database development

Present Status

Mr. Aman Bhardwaj

  

Background

He did his graduation in 2011 in Bioinformatics from DAV College, Sector-10, Chandigarh. He passed his Masters degree in 2013 in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics from Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Area of interest

Development of computational resources for antiviral peptides.

Present Status

Alumni

Ph.D Students worked under Dr. GPS Raghava

Mr. Harpreet Singh

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

Present Status

Research Officer, at Bioinformatics Centre, ICMR, New Delhi.

Dr. Harpreet Kaur

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2000-2004

Present Status

2008-present:Bioinformatican at Enright Group, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK.

Dr. Manoj Bhasin

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2001-2004

Present Status

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director Bioinformatics.

Dr. Biju Isac

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2001-2005

Present Status

Staff Scientist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, State of Columbia, USA.

Dr. Manish Kumar

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

July 2003-July 2008

Present Status

Assistant Professor, University of Delhi South Campus.
Address
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biophysics, 3rd Floor Biotech Building, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi -110021

Dr. Sudipto Saha

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2002-2006

Present Status

Scientist, Bose Institute, Kolkata

Dr. Sneha L. Pandey

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2004-2009

Present Status

Post doctoral Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA.

Dr. Nitish K. Mishra

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2005-2010

Present Status

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Dr. Firoz Ahmed


  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2005-2010

Present Status

The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

Dr. Mamoon Rashid

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2005-2010

Present Status

Marine Microbial Ecology, Red Sea Research Center, KAUST

Dr. Ruchi

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2007-2010

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow at University of Oklahoma

Dr. Arti Garg

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

Present Status

Dr. H. Rahman Ansari

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2006-2011

Present Status

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

Dr. Deepak Singla

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2008 - 2013

Present Status

Post doctoral Fellow at Center of Bioinformatics, IASRI, New Delhi

Dr. Surendra Vikram

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2008 - 2013

Present Status

Post Doc. University of Pretoria, South Africa

Dr. Ravi Kumar

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

Feb, 2008 - 2013

Present Status

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

Dr. Jagat S. Chauhan

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2008-2013

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow at University of Oxford, UK.

Dr. Bharat Panwar

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2008 - 2013

Present Status

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

Dr. Shailesh Kumar

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2009-2014

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow at University of Virginia, USA.

Dr. Sudheer Gupta

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2009-2014

Present Status

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

Dr. Harinder Singh

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2009-2014

Present Status

Post doctoral fellow in Craig Venter Institute, USA.

Dr. Rahul Kumar

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2010-2015

Present Status

Joining as Post doctoral fellow.

Mr. Kumardeep Chaudhary

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2010-2015

Present Status

Senior Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.

Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dhanda

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2010-2015

Present Status

Senior Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.

Ph.D Students worked under Dr. Balvinder Singh

Ms. Sangita Kachhap

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2009-2015

Present Status

Senior Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.

Mr. Manish Datt

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

Present Status

Ph.D Students worked under Dr. Manoj Kumar

Mr. Abid Qureshi

  

Worked As

Ph.D Student

Year

2010-2015

Present Status

Senior Project Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.

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