People from varied background including Bioinformaticists, Biotechnologists, Microbiologists, Molecular Biologists, User Interface Designers and Software Engineers contribute to the research projects at the Institute

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 before joining the Institute of Bioinformatics. He is using his expertise in mass spectrometry to identify novel biomarkers for cancers and to study signaling pathways. He is a reviewer for Journal of Proteome Research and Proteomics.

E-mail : raghothama at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Pradip Kumar Acharya obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Kalyani, Kolkata where he worked on the chromatographic separation of organic analytes using waste solids as adsorbents. He carried out his post doctoral studies in Prof. Balaram's Lab at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore where he used various mass spectrometric techniques including electrospray and MALDI-MS. He plans to use mass spectrometry for identification of cancer biomarker at IOB

E-Mail: pradip 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. 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 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. Subhashri Ramabadran obtained her Ph.D. degree in Molecular Virology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She completed her M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Madurai Kamaraj University. Her project at IOB involves purification of candidate biomarkers for pancreatic and esophageal cancers for generation of monoclonal antibodies to assist in their validation. She is a reviewer for British Journal of Cancer .

E-mail : subhashri at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Prathibha Ranganathan obtained her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where she studied the effects of TGF beta in lung cancer using cell lines and in a mouse xenografts. She used DNA microarrays to identify novel targets of TGF beta. Before joining IOB, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Manipal University.

E-mail : prathibha at ibioinformatics dot org

Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed obtained his M.Sc. degree in Zoology, M.Phil and Ph.D in Reproductive Biology from Karnatak University, India. He is applying his knowledge to enhance data mining and updating protein repository. He is also elucidating the functions of novel genes of X-chromosome including Bex family of proteins through a variety of functional approaches.

E-Mail: mukhtar at ibioinformatics dot org

Danny Navarro obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Navarra, Spain. He worked with Dr. Matthias Mann at the University of Odense in Denmark from 2001-2002. From 2002-2004, he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Akhilesh Pandey at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. He was instrumental in the development of the Human Protein Reference Database in collaboration with the Institute of Bioinformatics. He is currently at IOB where he is focusing on integrating microarray and proteomic data with protein interaction networks.

E-Mail: danny at ibioinformatics dot org

Ganesh Kumar Butcha obtained his Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications from Andhra Pradesh Electronics Limited, Having 5 years working experience as System Administrator in the large enterprise environments with the expertise on Server Virtualization and Scripting. He is involved in designing and implementation of server clusters and grid computing for IOB.

E-Mail: ganesh at ibioinformatics dot org

E-mail : renu at ibioinformatics dot org

Shreeharsha Gowda obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from University Of Mysore. He is a joint research student between Institute of Bioinformatics and Johns Hopkins University. His research is based on proteomic approaches to study signaling pathways that are activated in pancreatic cancer and identification of novel biomarkers.

E-Mail: harsha at jhmi dot edu

Shivakumar Keerthikumar obtained his Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics after completing his M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from Kuvempu University, India. He is involved in microarray database creation and maintenance, and mining gene expression data. He is a Ph.D student at the Institute of Bioinformatics. He is currently involved in col laboratory research project on Primary Immunodeficiency (PID) for the identification of candidate PID genes in Immunoinformatics research lab at RIKEN, JAPAN.

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 is interested in the analysis of breast cancer data, database maintenance and data mining. He is currenty a joint Ph.D. student at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Johns Hopkins University.

E-mail: kumaran at ibioinformatics dot org

Sameer Kumar G.S obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Bangalore University. He is currently working on the curation and review of gene expression data. He is also involved in gene expression profiling of meningitis.

E-mail: sameer at ibioinformatics dot org

Arivusudar Marimuthu obtained her M.Sc. degree in Genomics from Madurai Kamaraj University. She is working on updating our protein repository. She is also using whole human genome microarray to find out novel molecular signature for Gastric cancers.

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 currenty 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 Kishore obtained his M.Sc. degree in Microbial Gene Technology from Madurai Kamaraj University. He is focusing his efforts on the improvement of protein information in our repository. He is also involved in identification of substrates of protein tyrosine phosphatases in EGFR signaling.

E-Mail: harrys at ibioinformatics dot org

Abhilash K Venugopal obtained his M.Sc. degree in Microbiology from Madhurai Kamaraj University. He has research experience in Immunology of Cervical Cancer in analyzing Expression profile of Toll-like Receptor pathway at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore. He has developed Reverse Line Blot assay system for the detection of HPV genotypes. He is currently involved in protein annotation and signal transduction pathways. He is using high density microarray to identify novel signature for epilepsy.

E-Mail: abhilash at ibioinformatics dot org

Sandhya Rani obtained her M.Tech in Biotechnology from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. She is currently involved in protein annotation and signal transduction pathways.

E-Mail: sandhya at ibioinformatics dot org

Somak Ray obtained his M.Sc. degree in Microbiology from Bangalore University and subsequently worked on cloning and analysis of acetamidase promoter at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He gained laboratory experience in Clinical Microbiology and Diagnosis from BMJ Hospital in Bangalore. He is currently involved in updating our protein repository.

E-Mail: somak at ibioinformatics dot org

Devi S Somanathan obtained her M.Sc. degree in Genomics from Madurai Kamaraj University where she worked on both experimental as well as bioinformatics projects. She obtained a fellowship from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) to analyze sequence variations of the RPE65 gene at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad. She was previously also a Lecturer at SRM University in Chennai. Currently, she is involved in curation of protein-protein interactions and signaling pathways.

E-Mail: devi at ibioinformatics dot org

Lavanya Balakrishnan obtained her M.Sc. degree in Industrial Biotechnology from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India. She is currently involved in curation of protein information and signaling pathways.

E-Mail: lavanya at ibioinformatics dot org

Beema Shafreen RajaMohmed obtained her Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics from Madurai Kamaraj University and M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India. She is currently involved in protein-protein interaction and signaling pathways.

E-Mail: beema 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 enriching protein repository and signaling pathways.

E-Mail: sutopa at ibioinformatics dot org

Nandini V. Patankar 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 Junior 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 has undertaken courses in Oracle and C programming. Before joining IOB, she was a Lecturer in the Department of Bioinformatics at Sikkim Manipal University in Shillong. She is currently working on developing a database of molecular alterations in breast cancer.

E-Mail: mitali at ibioinformatics dot org

Aimy Sebastian completed her M.Sc in Bioinformatics at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in Kollam. Her academic exposure includes training in support vector machines at the Department of Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai. She also completed a certificate course in Information Technology from NIIT prior to joining IOB. She is involved in analysis of DNA microarray and mass spectrometry data.

E-Mail: aimy at ibioinformatics dot org

Santosh S. 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 A. 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.

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 currently involved in development of a Breast Cancer Database.

E-Mail: Yashwanth at ibioinformatics dot org

Binoj Abraham obtained his Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala. He previously worked as an Accountant for Goldline Builders Private Limited and at Doctor's Diagnostics Centre, both in Kottayam. He is the Accounts Officer at IOB.

E-Mail: binoj at ibioinformatics dot org

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Dr. Lobvi Matamoros Fernandez obtained a M.Sc. degree in Molecular Immunology from Havana's University, Cuba. Later he obtained his Ph.D. degree with professor Peter Roepstorff at the Protein Research Group in the University of Southern Denmark. He is interested in application of Mass Spectrometry and Bioinformatics to the field of Glycobiology.

E-Mail: lobvi at yahoo dot com