Team

Prof. Ethan Bier

Scientific Advisory

Prof. Ethan Bier is a pioneer in the field of Cell and Developmental biology, he received his PhD from Harvard. He joined University of California San Diego (UCSD), with more than 4 decades of experience and his perpetual hunger for Science and research has made him father of “Active Genetics”. His lab in UCSD, focuses on studying human diseases in Drosophila and with recent breakthrough his lab made its way into vector biology focusing on genetic modification in mosquitoes. Prof. Bier has been awarded with some of the most prestigious awards in the field of research to name a few Allen Distinguished Investigator, Alfred P. Sloan Scholar and Award, Basil O'Connor Scholar Research Award, McKnight Scholar and Award, Tata Chancellor's Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology. The spark in his eye and enthusiasm in his speech when he discuss science is motivation to aspiring researchers around the globe.

Prof. Michael Gromiha
IIT Madras, INDIA

Scientific Advisory

Prof. Michael Gromiha received his PhD in physics from Bharathidasan University, India, and served as a STA fellow, RIKEN researcher, Research scientist, and Senior scientist at the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan till 2010. Currently, he is working as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. His main research interests include sequence and structural analysis, prediction, folding, and stability of globular and membrane proteins, protein-protein, protein-nucleic acid and protein-ligand interactions, development of bioinformatics databases and tools, structure based drug design and next generation sequence analysis. He has published more than 260 research articles, 60 reviews, seven editorials, and two books entitled “Protein Bioinformatics: From Sequence to Function” by Elsevier/Academic Press and “Protein Interactions: Computational methods, analysis and prediction” by World Scientific. His papers received more than 12,000 citations and his h-index is 58.

He is an Associate Editor of BMC Bioinformatics, Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Advances, Section Editor of Current Protein and Peptide Science as well as an Editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Biology Direct, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genes and Current Computer Aided Drug Design. He has received several awards including the Oxford University Press Bioinformatics prize, Okawa Science Foundation Research Grant, Young Scientist Travel awards from ISCB, JSPS, AMBO and ICTP, Best Paper Award at ICIC2011, ICTP Associateship Award, ICMR International Fellowship for Senior Biomedical Scientists, INSA Senior Scientist Award, Best Paper Award in Bioinformatics by the Department of Biotechnology, India, Institute Research and Development Award from IIT Madras, Outstanding Performance Award from Initiative for Parallel Bioinformatics (IPAB), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and Tamilnadu Scientist Award (TANSA) from Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology, India. He is ranked as one of the topmost 0.5% of highly cited researchers.

Prof. Shikha Laloraya
IISC, Bangalore, INDIA

Scientific Advisory

Shikha Laloraya, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Shikha received her PhD in Oncology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A., where she worked at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry. She then joined the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, Baltimore, U.S.A., as a postdoctoral fellow and was also a Research Associate of the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes. Shikha joined I.I.Sc. as an Assistant Professor in 2000. Shikha received the Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship in Biomedical Science in India, by the Wellcome Trust, U.K., in 2001. Her research interests have focused on studying chromosome organization and genomic stability and understanding how chromosomal organization affects various chromosome transactions. Her lab also investigates the importance of post-translational modifications of proteins such as ubiquitylation and sumoylation.

Professor Samir Maji
IIT Bombay

Scientific Advisory

Professor Maji obtained his M.Sc. in Chemistry from Calcutta University, and Ph.D. in Peptide Chemistry (2003) from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. He did his postdoctoral fellowship in the study of Alzheimer’s disease at Harvard Medical School and later at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA (2002-2005). Further postdoctoral studies were carried out at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and later at ETH Zurich in the field of functional amyloid and amyloids associated with Parkinson's disease. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at IIT Bombay. His research group at IIT Bombay is trying to delineate the structure-functional relationship of protein aggregates associated with human diseases (Parkinson's and Cancer) and with native biological function and also developing amyloid based biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering application. Prof. Maji is an Elected Fellow of National Academy of Science, India (FNASc), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Biological Chemistry. He is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honors including IIT Bombay Excellence in Teaching Award (2020), Tata Innovation Fellowship by the Department of Biotechnology (2020), NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award for Application Oriented Innovation in Biological Sciences (2019), National Bioscience Award for Career Development, by the Department of Biotechnology (2016), IIT Bombay Research Publication Award (2016), and the Young Researcher Award, Lady Tata memorial Trust (2013).

Dr. Maheswaran Mani

Pondicherry Central University

Maheswaran Mani is Assistant Professor in Department of Microbiology, Pondicherry University. He was awarded Ph.D. from Justus Liebig University, Germany with Magna cum laude (Very good grade) and Post-Doctoral fellowship from Stanford University, USA. He is recipient of PhD fellowship from German research foundation, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He had received several awards, honors and is a life member of various scientific societies including Indian Immunology Society, Indian Cell Biology Society and The Society of Biological Chemists. His present research is focused on Infection-Immunity, Stem cell Biology and his lab is supported by funding agency DBT, ICMR and DST-SERB.

Dr. Arunachalam Ramaiah

Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bangalore, INDIA

Dr. Arunachalam Ramaiah received his PhD in Bioinformatics jointly from the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India, and Abo Akademi University, Finland. He has worked at eminent organizations in his career started with Indian Institute of Science, India, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, and the University of California, Irvine, USA. Dr. Ramaiah recently returned to India as Senior Scientist in Tata Institute for Genetics and Society-India. He is a recipient of the prestigious ‘ISID New Investigator Award – 2016’ from the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), USA. He is a fellow of the Centre for International Mobility, Finland and the Association of Public Health Laboratories, USA, and a life member of ISID and American Society for Rickettsiology. His current research focuses on studying the genome of various arthropods and the nature of the interactions of these arthropods with their bacterial endosymbionts.

Dr. Sandeep

Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
Tennessee, USA

Dr. Sandeep completed his education from Government educational institutions in district Hisar, India. He earned his master’s degree in Biotechnology from Maharishi Dayanand University Rohtak, Haryana and moved to Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh to pursue his PhD degree in Bioinformatics awarded by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Soon after thesis submission he got post-doctoral opportunity at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, San Diego, California and moved to USA in 2016. He developed and successfully completed various research projects in different fields of Immunology. As a fruit of which he got selected for a research scientist position at Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis city of Tennessee, USA where he is serving presently. At an early stage of his career with an outstanding track record of scientific publications he is also serving as an academic editor for several reputed journals.

Dr. Hemanth Naick Banavath

Central University of Rajastan

Dr. Hemanth Naick Banavath is Assistant Professor in Rajasthan Central University. He was awarded Ph.D from Pondicherry Central University, India and Post Doctoral Fellowship from John Hopkins university, USA and from IISER Tirupati, India.

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Former President

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Sir Ratan Tata

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