Dr. Raghothama Chaerkady obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Manipal University in Manipal, India. He was an Associate Professor of Biotechnology at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. He is an expert in the mass spectrometry characterization of proteins and post-translational modifications. His role is to carry out conclusive proteomic projects starting with appropriate sample preparation for mass spectrometry analysis, multiplexed labeling, chromatographic fractionation, design LC-MS/MS methods for different mass spectrometers, process mass spectrometry data, identify and interpret the quantitative proteomics data using different search algorithms and quantitation software. His research interests include development of quantitative proteomics to directly measure the expression level of candidate proteins and dynamics of post-translational modifications. He uses state-of-the-art mass spectrometers such as LTQ OrbitrapXL ETD, Accurate mass QTOF coupled to high-resolution nanoliquid chromatography for the comprehensive proteomic analysis. He has successfully employed variety of stable isotope labeling methods such as SILAC, iTRAQ, TMT, and 18O labeling to study biomarkers and cell signaling in various types of biological systems. He is using different types of fragmentation methods such as CID, PQD, HCD and ETD for designing appropriate mass spectrometry methods to study various types of post-translational modifications and protein top-down analysis. His goal is also to develop mass spectrometry based assay methods for biomarkers and signaling molecules using peptide standards on a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. He is a reviewer for Journal of Proteome Research, Proteomics and Trends in Analytical Chemistry. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator and Coordinator of a DBT funded project DBT Programme Support on Neuroproteomics for Proteomic Investigation of Neurological Disorders in collaboration with National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore.

E-mail : raghothama at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Sujatha Mohan obtained her M.Sc. degree in Botany from Madras University, Chennai. She had completed M.Phil. from the same University with specialization in Algology. Later, she did her Ph.D. from CAS in Botany, Madras University in environmental science. She is applying her knowledge to database analysis, signaling pathway annotation, functional genomics and microarray gene expression. She is a recognized Ph.D Guide at Kuvempu University. She is currently at RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama Institute, Japan as the leader of Immunoinformatics Research Unit. She is involved in developing a database for Primary Immunodeficiency Disease (PID) from Asia.

Dr. T. S. Keshava Prasad obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mycology from Goa University, India. He was recently awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Department of Biotechnology to investigate the role of protein tyrosine phosphatases in EGF signaling. He is also a Principal Investigator on a DBT-funded consortium to establish a national database for tuberculosis. He is involved in curation and review of proteomics data in Human Protein Reference Database and Plasma Proteome Database. Currently, he also has a DBT funded project to develop Mouse Protein Reference Database. He is a reviewer for the journals Bioinformatics, DNA Research, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Bioinformatics and Biology Insights. In addition to the above, he is using proteomic approaches to study various Candida species. In collaboration with the laboratory of Dr. Charlie Boone, he has analyzed the conserved genetic interactions among budding and fission yeasts. He is also developing a web based compendium of molecular events that drive various biological processes in yeast. He is in the process of developing differential proteomic strategies to profile proteomes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae knockouts.

E-mail : keshav at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Renu Goel obtained her M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics from Sikkim Manipal University and M.Tech. degree in Biotechnology from Institute of Advanced Studies in Education in Rajasthan, India. She served as a Resident for five years in the Department of Gynaecology in Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Moolchand Khairati Ram hospitals. She also taught in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology for six years in reputed education institutes in Bangalore. She is pursuing her Ph.D. at Institute of Bioinformatics and is registered in Kuvempu University. She is involved in the curation of proteomic data in Mouse Protein Reference Database, Tuberculosis Reference Database and Human Protein Reference Database. She is reviewing the genomic and transcriptomic information curated in the Pancreatic Cancer Database and Breast Cancer Database. She is also working on gene expression profiling in gastric cancer using DNA microarrays and quantitative proteomics.

E-mail : renu at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Vikram Katju obtained his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India. He was also a Lecturer at IIIT-Allahabad for four years where he taught various courses on Bioinformatics. Subsequently he worked in a Clinical Research Organization on Clinical Data Management. Currently, he is involved in the analysis of genomic and proteomic information.

E-mail : vikram at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Krishna R. Murthy obtained his M.B.B.S. degree from Bangalore Medical College and completed his post graduation in Ophthalmology at Minto Regional Institute of Ophthalmology in Bangalore. Further, he also underwent research training and Vitreoretinal Fellowship at Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai. Currently, he is practicing as a vitreoretinal surgeon at Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology and Prabha Eye Clinic and Research Centre, both in Bangalore. He is also a visiting consultant at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health Sciences in Bangalore. He is a member of the prestigious Royal College of Ophthalmologists in London. He is also a member of various other socities including All India Ophthalmic Society, Karnataka Ophthalmic society and Vitreoretinal society of India. In collaboration with the World Diabetes Foundation, he is driving highly successful projects such as NAYANA and CODE, which are mobile ophthalmic units involved in the detection and treatment of diabetic retinopathy in rural and semiurban areas of Karnataka. He is the recipient of J. S. Mahashabde award for his contribution towards taking diabetic retinopathy treatment to rural India. His research areas include diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity, neuroophthalmology and HIV related ophthalmic diseases. In IOB, he is carrying out proteomic investigation of vitreous humour of human eye in diverse pathological conditions.

E-mail : krishna at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Jagadeesha Maharudraiah obtained his M.B.B.S. degree from Sri Siddhartha Medical College in Tumkur and completed his residency in Pathology from M. S. Ramaiah Medical College in Bangalore. He has gained experience in hematopathology, cytopathology, clinical pathology and histopathology while serving as a Pathologist in M. S. Ramaiah Medical Teaching Hospital in Bangalore. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Rajarajeswari Medical College and as a Consultant Pathologist in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Sagar Hospital, both in Bangalore. His research areas include association studies between Helicobacter pylori and appendicitis, Xanthogranulomatous inflammation and lipid profile derangement in type I diabetes mellitus in children. In IOB, he is carrying out proteomic investigation of pinworms isolated from vermiform appendix in human. He is also involved in immunohistochemical validation of candidate biomarkers in esophageal and gastric carcinoma.

E-mail : jagadeesha at ibioinformatics dot org

Harsha Gowda obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from University of Mysore. He joined Institute of Bioinformatics as a researcher in 2002 and was involved in various bioinformatic projects including development of Human Protein Reference Database and functional annotation of human X chromosome. He worked in Dr. Akhilesh Pandey's laboratory at Johns Hopkins University from 2005 to 2008 on proteomic profiling of pancreatic cancers. His work involved proteomic approaches to study signaling pathways activated in pancreatic cancers and identification of novel biomarkers. He has received a Wellcome Trust-DBT Early Career Fellowship which is intended for the most promising young researchers in India.

E-Mail: harsha at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Shivakumar Keerthikumar obtained his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore. He is involved in the maintenance of Human Proteinpedia, Human Protein Reference Database and NetPath. He is also involved in data analysis and data mining using Python programming. He is carrying out microarray data and geneset enrichment analysis using BioConductor suite. He has worked as a Research Associate in the Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI), RIKEN in Japan for a year in a collaborative research project. He is involved in the development of Resource for Asian Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases. Further, he has also developed an algorithm using support vector machine approaches to identify the candidate genes for Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases.

E-mail: shivakumar at ibioinformatics dot org

Kumaran Kandasamy obtained his M.Sc. degree in life Sciences from Pondicherry University. He has also completed an Advanced PG Diploma in Bioinformatics from Pondicherry University. He has over 5 years of experience in software development, systems biology, proteogenomics and computational proteomics. He was involved in the development of Human Protein Reference Database and Human Proteinpedia. He developed PathBuilder - an open source software for annotating and co-led development of NetPath - a manually curated resource of signaling pathways. He is interested in the analysis of breast cancer data, database maintenance, data mining and development of software for analysis of mass spectrometry data. He is currenty a joint Ph.D. student at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Johns Hopkins University.

E-mail: kumaran at ibioinformatics dot org

Ghantasala S. Sameer Kumar obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Bangalore University. He worked in the curation of protein data pertaining to Plasma Proteome Database and Human Protein Reference Database. He also involved in the curation of Signal transduction pathways, Breast Cancer Database and Pancreatic Cancer Database. He is pursuing his Ph.D. at Kuvempu University. He is currently working on the genomic and proteomic profiling of brain sample infected with tuberculous meningitis and rabies.

E-mail: sameer at ibioinformatics dot org

Deepthi Telikicherla obtained her M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. She is involved in the development of a database on molecular alterations in breast cancer. She is currently a joint Ph.D. student at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Kuvempu University. She recently obtained a Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research for developing the Breast Cancer Database.

E-mail: deepthi at ibioinformatics dot org

Rajesh Raju obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Bharathiar University. He is a joint Ph.D. student of Institute of Bioinformatics and Kuvempu University. He is involved in the development of human signaling pathways. He secured a CSIR Senior Research Fellowship. In a collaborative project in the development of the Resource for Asian Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases, He has worked at Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI), RIKEN, Japan for one year. He is also involved in the curation and review of proteomics data in Human Protein Reference Database, Breast cancer database and Tuberculous Reference Database.

E-mail: rajesh at ibioinformatics dot org

Arivusudar Marimuthu obtained her M.Sc. degree in Genomics from Madurai Kamaraj University. She is focused on identification of candidate biomarkers for gastrointestinal cancers and study of cancer cell signaling. She is working with primary tumors and tumor derived cells to look at molecular alterations and aberrations in signaling cascades. She is performing genome wide gene expression studies using microarray platforms and proteomic studies using mass spectrometry.

E-Mail: arivusudar at ibioinformatics dot org

Manoj Kashyap obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Institute of Advanced Studies (CCSU), Meerut. He has gained experience in Molecular Biology at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He spent three and half years as a visiting scholar at Loyola University of Chicago and University of Illinois, Urbana; U.S.A. He is applying his training to the characterization of protein interactions in specific signaling cascades. He is currently a Ph.D student at the Institute of Bioinformatics. He is using microarray technology to study the gene expression profiling of esophageal carcinoma.

E-Mail: manoj at ibioinformatics dot org

Harrys K. C. Jacob obtained his M.Sc. degree in Microbial Gene Technology from the Madurai Kamaraj University. He has been trained in IMAC and immunoaffinity techniques from the Center for Bioseparation Technologies, Vellore. He is a Ph.D. student registered with the Manipal University and is involved in studies to elucidate role of protein tyrosine phosphatases and SH2 domain containing proteins in cancers. He has been trained in the analysis of genetic networks and protein interactions in yeast in the laboratory of Dr. Charlie Boone at the University of Toronto. He has recently obtained a Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR to further investigate protein-protein interactions involved in B cell receptor signaling by using SILAC technology.

E-Mail: harrys at ibioinformatics dot org

Abhilash K. Venugopal obtained his M.Sc. degree in Microbiology from Madurai Kamaraj University. He gained research experience in immunology of cervical cancer while analyzing expression profile of Toll-like Receptor pathway at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology in Bangalore. He is currently involved in microarray data analysis using BioConductor suite and curation of protein databases and signal transduction pathways. He is pursuing his Ph.D. at Institute of Bioinformatics and is registered with Kuvempu University. He is using high density microarrays and quantitative proteomic approaches to characterize molecule associations in neurological diseases including temporal lobe epilepsy, tuberculous meningitis and rabies.

E-Mail: abhilash at ibioinformatics dot org

Lavanya Balakrishnan obtained her M.Sc. degree in Industrial Biotechnology from Bharathiar University in India. She is a Ph.D. student registered with Kuvempu University. She is characterizing differentially expressed genes and proteins between degenerative and inflammatory arthritis using DNA microarrays and quantitative proteomics. She has also worked as a Research Associate in the Research Center for Allergy and Immunology of RIKEN in Japan in a collaborative project with Institute of Bioinformatics on primary immunodeficiency diseases. She is also involved in curation of protein information in the proteomic and signaling pathway resources.

E-Mail: lavanya at ibioinformatics dot org

Sutopa B. Dwivedi obtained her M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Bangalore University. She participated in projects including 'Characterization of lytic phages from cytolethal distending toxin producing bacteria' and 'Molecular epidemiology of diarrhoeal diseases' at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata. She is currently involved in proteomic analysis and genome annotation of malaria causing vectors like Anopheles stephensi. She secured a CSIR Senior Research Fellowship.

E-Mail: sutopa at ibioinformatics dot org

Nandini A. Sahasrabuddhe obtained her M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Pune. She participated in projects including 'Characterization of Serratia odorifera proteases' at the University of Pune and 'Study of drug toxicity using a proteomics approach' at the National Chemical Laboratory also in Pune. She secured a CSIR Senior Research Fellowship. She is currently involved in proteomic profiling of gallbladder cancers for identification of biomarkers for early detection.

E-Mail: nandini at ibioinformatics dot org

Lakshmi Dhevi N. Selvan obtained her M.Sc. degree in Microbial Gene Technology from Madurai Kamaraj University. Subsequently, she joined National Research Centre for Banana in Trichy where she generated constructs for various viral genes to develop resistant transgenic banana plants. She is currently involved in studying X-linked mental retardation using genomic technologies.

E-Mail: lakshmi at ibioinformatics dot org

Dhanashree S. Kelkar obtained her M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Pune and subsequently qualified for a Junior Research Fellowship sponsored by CSIR-UGC. She is currently involved in proteomic analysis and genome annotation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

E-Mail: dhanashree at ibioinformatics dot org

Mitali Bhattacharjee obtained her M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from North Eastern Hill University in Shillong and a Post Graduate Diploma in Cheminformatics from the Institute of Cheminformatics Studies in Delhi. Subsequently, she qualified for a Lectureship sponsored by the CSIR-UGC. She is currently a joint Ph.D. student of Institute of Bioinformatics and Amrita University. She is involved in the transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of human synovial fluid for identification of molecules associated with inflammatory arthritis, osteoarthritis, and spondyloarthropathy. She is also enriching protein repository.

E-Mail: mitali at ibioinformatics dot org

Santosh Renuse obtained his M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology from University of Pune. He has worked on "Evaluation of immune status of individuals with viral infections with reference to humoral immune response and macrophage activation" and "Nitric oxide (NO) in the CNS of Indian major carp, Labio rohita, during development" at University of Pune. He qualified for a Junior Research Fellowship sponsored by CSIR-UGC. He is currently involved in proteomic data analysis at IOB

E-Mail: santosh at ibioinformatics dot org

Harsh Pawar obtained his M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology from University of Pune. He has worked on projects "Genetic characterization of inter-allopartic strain hybrids in Drosophila melanogaster and the genetic studies of its fitness" at Department of Zoology, University of Pune and "Role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine modification on cytokeratins 8 and 18 in epithelial cell transformation" at TMC-ACTREC. He qualified for a Junior Research Fellowship by CSIR and was invited to participate in the prestigious Dr. S.P Mukherjee Scholarship in 2007. He is involved in the curation of proteomic information and protein data analysis. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in proteomics of parasitic organisms including Leishmania donovani.

E-Mail: harsh at ibioinformatics dot org

Yashwanth Subbannayya obtained his M.Sc. degree in Medical Biochemistry from the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University. He qualified for a Junior Research Fellowship sponsored by CSIR-UGC. He is a Ph.D. student registered at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. He is carrying out protein expression profiling of gastric cancers using quantitative proteomic approaches. He is involved in curation of molecular alteration data in Breast Cancer Database.

E-Mail: Yashwanth at ibioinformatics dot org

Shyam Mohan Palapetta obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India. He worked with Jubilant Biosys Ltd., Bangalore for more than three years where he gained experience in the curation of signal transduction pathways and protein interaction databases. Later, he spent 15 months in the Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra in Portugal, as a research fellow. He is currently involved in protein annotation and signal transduction pathways.

E-Mail: shyam at ibioinformatics dot org

Nirujogi Raja Sekhar obtained his M.Sc. degree in Human Genetics from Andhra University, India. He worked with Centre for Human Genetics, Bangalore for a year where he gained experience in transformation of B-lymphocytes with Epepstein-Barr virus. He also worked in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on protein-protein interactions of human DNAJB6 gene. He is currently involved in genomic and proteomic data analysis pertaining to chronic meningitis.

E-Mail: raja at ibioinformatics dot org

Praveen Kumar obtained his M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics from Pondicherry University. He is interested in protein data analysis using Perl and Python programming. Currently, he is working on the development of computational strategies for protein data analysis.

E-Mail: praveen at ibioinformatics dot org

Sneha Pinto obtained her M.Sc. degree in Medical Biochemistry from the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University. She gained experience in mass spectrometry in the Department of Clinical Proteomics and Molecular Medicine at St. John's Research Institute in Bangalore where she worked on several proteomic research projects. She is currently working on using mass spectrometry for biomarker identification in human neurological diseases.

E-Mail: sneha at ibioinformatics dot org

Joji Kurian Thomas obtained his M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics from Bharathiar University. He worked as a Software Engineer at AdSOFT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore for one year where he gained experience in maintenance of PHP, MySQL and Oracle databases. He also worked as a PHP Programmer for 14 months at Anantix Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. in Thiruvananthapuram. He is involved in the maintenance of databases of protein-protein interactions and signal transduction pathways.

E-Mail: joji at ibioinformatics dot org

Babylakshmi Muthusamy obtained her M.Sc. degree in Physics from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and Advanced diploma in Bioinformatics from Madurai Kamaraj University. She was involved in the curation of protein data in Human Protein Reference Database and Plasma Proteome Database. She has used comparative genomics for the annotation of human X-chromosome. She is currently using python programming for the maintenance and analysis protein data in Human Proteinpedia and other protein databases.

E-Mail: babylakshmi at ibioinformatics dot org

Vishalakshi Nanjappa obtained her M.Sc. degree in Microbiology from Bangalore University. She has gained experience in curation of proteomic information while working for Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore. Currently she is involved in curation of protein information in the proteomic and signaling pathway resources.

E-Mail: vishalakshi at ibioinformatics dot org

Jyoti Sharma obtained her M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics from C.C.S. University in Meerut. She gained experience in bioinformatics while working as a Junior Research Fellow in Molecular Biophysics Unit at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and as a Research Assistant in the Bioinformatics Centre at National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi. She is currently involved in computational analysis of proteomics and gene expression data to enrich protein repository and signaling pathways. She has recently obtained a Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR for genome-wide analysis of kinome and phosphatome of mycobacterial genomes.


E-Mail: jyoti at ibioinformatics dot org

Aneesha Radhakrishnan obtained her M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam. She worked on antifungal activities of phytochemicals derived from medicinal plants as part of her research project during her masters. She is a CSIR Junior Research Fellow currently inolved in the analysis of antineoplastic activities of phytochemicals derived from medicinal plants using proteomic approaches.

E-Mail: aneesha at ibioinformatics dot org

Srikanth Manda Srinivas obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has worked on project "Identification of prokaryotic glycosylation pathways by Comparative Genomics approach" as a part of M.Sc. program in Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has qualified the prestigious 'Bioinformatics National Certification' in the year 2009. He has also secured Junior Research Fellowships by qualifying the National Eligibility Test conducted by CSIR-UGC and DBT. He has also obtained postgraduate diploma in Multimedia with specializaion in Graphic Designing. He is a certified web designer. He is pursuing a Bachelors degree in Computer Applications from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. Currently he is analyzing NextGen sequencing data from Illumina and SOLiD platforms.

E-Mail: srikanth at ibioinformatics dot org

Satish S. Biradar obtained his CA PE-II from Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI). He cleared 1st Group in CA Final exam conducted by ICAI. He completed his 3 years of Articleship from Phillips & Co., Chartered Accountants, Bangalore and has experience in the field of Finance and Auditing.  He is working with IOB as Finance Manager.

E-Mail: satish at ibioinformatics dot org

Yeshwanth Shivshankar obtained his Diploma in Welding from Industrial Training Institute, Bangalore. He worked as a Marketing Representative with Vox Marketing in Bangalore before joining IOB. He is involved in sample collection, processing and maintenance of sample registry for proteomic studies carried out at IOB.

E-Mail: yeshwanth at ibioinformatics dot org