Fourth Batch of the
Postgraduate Course in Bioinformatics

	Dr. Abhineeta Kumari is a graduate of veterinary science from Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi. She have immense interest in pharmacology and always wanted to go into the research field and design drugs which could be beneficial to animals.  She also wants to discover a technique for easy disease detection in animals as it is very difficult to detect the specific diseases in animals due to which  many  animals die without specific treatment. Back
	Abhijit Paul is a graduate in Agriculture from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal where he had specialized in agricultural biochemistry as a major course. It was during his course of study that he developed a keen interest towards the subject of plant biotechnology. His inquisitiveness as to how bioinformatics could be applied to this field led him to join IBAB. He is specially interested in studying plant functional proteomics, its structural modelling, genomics and as to how it can be used to study immune response/resistance in plants against pest/pathogen attack. Data mining is another field he is looking forward to. His interests also include plant phylogenetic analysis. If given a chance, he wishes to pursue his higher studies in these fields. Back
	Aditya Anand Barve is a graduate in Botany along with vocational biotechnology from Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai University. His project in Bioinformatics in his last year interested him in this field. He believes that at IBAB, one can cross disciplinary borders. His academic interests include evolution, signalling and interactions in proteins and biochemical genetics in prokaryotic systems. Analysing these by employing computational tools interests him very much. Music and voracious reading are his pastimes. Back
	Adwait Devendra Mevada is a post graduate in Physics with specialization in Theoretical and Computational Physics from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat. His interests lies in studying different aspects of Computational Structural Biology and the Physics behind it and Gene Prediction. Back
	Ajay. R is a Computer Science Engineer from RMK Engg. College, University of Madras. He would like to use his computational skills to solve biological problems. His interests include machine learning, sequence analysis, data mining and computer modeling. He has joined IBAB in order to gain a thorough knowledge of biology and also to hone his computer and mathematical skills. Back
	Amlan Kumar Pradhan holds an M.Sc. in Applied and Industrial Microbiology from Utkal University, Orissa with specialisation in Pharmaceutical and Clinical Microbilogy and has completed his project, “Isolation, Characterisation, Protein and plasmid profile analysis of Bacillus thuringiensis from the soil of Assam”. He is proficient in microbial techniques, Electrophoresis, PCR, Chromatography etc. Composing poems in Hindi, music, computing, and sporting activities keeps him busy at his leisure time. Back
	Ameya S Chaubal holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Mumbai. His twin interest in computers and biology has brought him to the field of bioinformatics. He enjoys programming and has an ambition of building biological tools. He has a knack of finding uncanny software from the internet. His favourite hobbies are reading and listening to music. Back
	Amrita Mishra holds a Post Graduation in Zoology with specialisation in Ecology from Ranchi University. During Post Graduation she had worked on a Project, “Heavy Metal Uptake by Water hyacinth - Bioremediation of Water Pollution", in which she attempted to make use of the destructive property of Water hyacinth to make the water body free of Heavy metals which are harmful for living beings when present in large amounts. Back
	Animesh Acharjee holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar. His interest is to apply artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, biometry, sequence analysis and mathematical modeling of biological systems. He was selected for paper presentation in IIT Guahati (2002) and IIT Chennai (2004). Back
	Anshul Vaidya holds an M.Sc in Biotechnology from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. Having joined the P.G. Diploma Course in Bioinformatics, he expects to gain the knowledge of the subject and wishes to improvise on the skills learned at IBAB. Back
	Debasish Satpathy is a postgraduate in microbiology from Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa and his field of interest is molecular biology.   Back
	Hara Prasad Pattnaik is a postgraduate in Botany from Utkal University, Orissa. He has worked as a Research Associate in a bioinformatics company, "Protein Lounge" in Bhubaneswar, Orrisa. His work included finding out the information about the pathways and proteins of various organisms through extensive search from the journals and literature. He had worked to analyze the data using bioinformatics tools. He has also helped the programmers to understand the biological point of view. Back
	Jagat Singh Bhati is a post graduate in Biotechnology from Sardar Patel University,Vallabh Vidya Nagar. During my Master's degree, he completed a project on Plant tissue culture of a commercially and medicinally important plant 'Chlorophytum borivilianum' and later pursued a research project on two medicinally important plants of Boraginaceae family. Back
	Isani Mihra is a medical graduate from Orissa. She has volunteered in a large hospital in US for 6 months. She has worked as a Junior Resident in St. John's Medical College Hospital , Bangalore. Her reason of joining this course was an inquisitiveness in her to know life at a cellular and molecular level. With a fairly good knowledge about Bioinformatics at the end of this course she hopes to achieve it and aspires into getting into the clinical trials and the medical research industry. Back
	Jayalakshmi. K is a medical graduate from Bangalore University. After her medical internship, she worked as a duty medical officer with a private hospital. Both as a student and as an intern, the fact that so little is known about so many diseases kept haunting her. She found that the treatments for certain diseases like cancer caused more or equal suffering, as the disease itself. At IBAB, she hopes to gain knowledge and skills to help her in her quest for contributing to the reduction of suffering of humankind in a small way. Cancer genetics and gene therapy were of particular interest that got her into IBAB. But after a month at IBAB, she feels that the course opens new avenues of interest for her each day. She hopes to find the right beginning by the end of the year. Back
	Kailash. N. R. is a graduate in Chemical Engg from Adhiyaman College of Engg, Univ of Madras, after which he devoted 2 years for the preparation of the UPSC examinations. He has worked as a Sales Executive in Matrix Marketing Solutions months where the job involved merchandizing Oxford publications. He has also worked as Customer Support Representative in Sykes Enterprises India Ltd, where the job involved troubleshooting problems regarding the usage of Palm Handhelds for US-based customers. He felt that joining a course in bioinformatics would give him a broad range of career-oriented and market-value options to work in areas like research in Pharmacy, Diseases, Dyes etc. Back
	Melvin Jacob has a bachelor's degree in Computer engineering from the Bangalore University. He developed an interest in Bioinformatics after acourse in 'AI & its applications' at the IISc. He believes that he can contribute in narrowing down the gap between software & and its applications in Biology. Software can be made not very different from living entities & the prominence of this interesting idea is growing with AI. Subjects like Machine learning & distributed computing also interest him. With what he has gained from working with DELL & Progeon, he aims to use his skills in Informatics. Back
	Mini Prakashkumar Lohia is a postgraduate in Biochemistry from School of Sciences, Gujarat University at Ahmedabad. Her curiosity in the depths of life led her to Biochemistry and this further was instigated by the technology to study life which led her to this course of Bioinformatics at IBAB. Her interests mainly lie in the secrets hidden within the DNA - the code of life. In her leisure time she likes to read all kinds of books, listen to music and sit and brood on the intricacies of life and nature. Back
	Minarva Sahoo , a postgraduate in Microbiology at Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT),Bhubaneswar, Orissa. She also have nearly 2 year job experience at Protein Lounge . It is a complete information hub for pathways and proteins with some very good Bio-tools and She was working there as a Research Associate (RA). My job responsibility was to analyze protein structure, function, mechanism of action in various cellular pathways and to represent the biochemical interactions amongst proteins in a schematic way. This job motivated me to do a bioinformatics course. She would also like to study more about molecular biology, drug designing and gene therapy." Back
	Monika Bagchi is a graduate in pharmacy and her interest in bioinformatics and its influence into/on pharmaceutical world led her to IBAB. Her aim had been to pursue research in the field of novel drug design, novel drug delivery systems. She hopes her knowledge in bioinformatics will help her take a few steps further in this direction. Back
	Mrinal Rathod is a graduate in Chemistry from St. Xavier's College, Ranchi. He joined IBAB to get acquainted with the latest development in the field of bioinformatics, computational chemistry in which he is interested. In-silico drug designing and molecular modelling are his other areas of interest. Back
	Neelam Agrawal holds a post graduate degree in Zoology with specialisation in Biochemistry from Puri, Orissa. Her interest in DNA and manipulation of DNA by various methods to serve mankind led her to IBAB. She believes that loyalty to certain basic ideas are essential to succeed in any sphere and that success comes to those who dare and act and seldom goes to the timid. Back
	Omprakash Ranakoti is a pharmacy graduate from Rohilkhand University (U.P). He joined IBAB with the intention to learn about the latest developments in the field of bioinformatics. He hopes to utilize the skills acquired at IBAB for research in the area of drug designing & drug targeting. Back
	Padmini Katekar is as BTech graduate in Electrical and Electronics from Kottayam, Kerala. After graduation she worked as a Software Engineer in Patni Computer Systems Ltd in Mumbai on ERP platform. Application of computer programming and statistics in the field of biology instigated her to join the course in IBAB. Drug design and developing bioinformatics tools are the two objectives which she hopes to aim through IBAB. An opportunity to mingle and share ideas with people from diverse branches is also an aspect she is sure to find at IBAB . Back
	Poornima. P.M is post graduate in Chemistry. She also holds a B.Ed in Physical science. She has worked as a guest lecturer in a Govt. Higher Secondary School for a year. But her inclination to research work led her to the course at IBAB. As she is from a non-biological background, she hopes to gain mastery over the subject through this course. ` Back
	Pragati Jain holds a degree in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. She has worked as a Microbiologist in Universal Industries, a bottled water plant. Curiosity, to know about the genetics of contaminants present in bottled water and how to increase the shelf life of bottled water led her to join IBAB. Her areas of interest include Drug design and Drug targeting. She is a firm believer in hard work and is sure that that on completion of the course in IBAB, she will be proficient to find solutions to the innumerable problems in her area. Back
	Prasoon Agarwal holds a masters degree in biotechnology from H.N.B.Gharwal University. He has completed his project in molecular biology at I.V.R.I. He also has a short stint of teaching experience. His areas of keen interest are proteomics and genomics. Being a biotechnologist, he wishes to work as an interface between a wetlab and computer applications. He is very keen in working in a R&D lab of biotechnology or a health care company. Back
	Pradnya N. Shelke holds a post graduate degree in life-sciences with specialisation in Biotechnology from University of Mumbai. The basics in bioinformatics taught at the postgraduate level increased her curiousity and enthusiasm in the field and led her to IBAB. She is interested in Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering and would like to pursue a Ph.D in any of these areas The contents of the IBAB course made her reject admissions to courses in Bioinformatics offered at University Of Sydney and La Trobe University. Back
	Raichur Amruta Ashok is a pharmacy graduate from Mumbai University. Her main reason for joining this course was to find the applications of bioinformatics and computational biology in drug design models and drug receptor interactions. Back
	Dr. Rakesh Kumar is postgraduate in Animal Genetics and Breeding from Anand Agriculture University, Anand. He has worked as a Veterinary Surgeon, Govt of Meghalaya, Shillong, for the past 6 years. His interest in Pharmacogenomics and proteomics brought me to IBAB. He hopes that the skills acquired at IBAB would help him in his future endeavors. Back
	Rinku Ranjan Sarangi is a postgraduate in Microbiology from Utkal University, Orissa. He has worked on a 6 month project work on Urease enzyme at CRRI, Cuttack. His knowledge in molecular and microbial techniques will give him an advantage in his research career. At IBAB, he hopes to improve on his software knowledge required in the field of bioinformatics. His interests include proteomics, sequence analysis, drug designing & drug delivery. Back
	Savitha. G. Ananth holds a post graduate degree in Microbiology from Bangalore University. She has worked as Scientific Associate in the R&D division of Biocon India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore and as a Senior Research Fellow in Biochemistry Dept., IISc., Bangalore. She is interested in the areas of Computational Biology, Proteomics and Drug designing. Back
	Saqib Akhtar Chinoy interest lies in the commercialisation of bioinformatics, in the way of tools and expertise. He aims to use his experience in applied research along with the knowledge of the service industry, biotechnology and bioinformatics training to establish his own company in 3 years time. Back
	Sanjana Rao is a post graduate in Applied Genetics from the Center for Applied Genetics, Bangalore University. She has also completed a Honors course in Entomology and Genetics and a Pre-diploma in French. She is keenly interested in research and feels that the course at IBAB ce will broaden her perspective of Bioinformatics and Science as a whole. The core areas of study which interest her are Microarrays, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics and drug designing. Back
	Shailesh Kumar holds a B.Tech in Biochemical Engineering from H.B.T.I, Kanpur after which he pursued research in Department of Environment Engg., I.I.T, Kanpur on "Anaerobic treatment of waste water". Later, he worked in the Department of Biotechnology & Biochemical Engg., I.I.T, and Delhi on "Condition and process optimization of fermentation based products". He has also worked as a Biochemical Engineer, when he commercialized two Biotechnological products, Xylanase Enzyme and Trichoderma viride (fungicide). With a strong background of Mathematics, Statistics, Biotechnology and Engineering, he would like to work on "ab initio method for protein modeling". Back
	Supti Mukhopadhyay is a postgraduate in Chemistry from Presidency College, Kolkata. She has also completed one year of Post M.Sc. Course Work in Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. Her interests lies in learning structure- function relationships of biomolecules and molecular modelling. Back
	Shaik Ashrefunisa is a postgraduate in Biochemsitry. Her goal is to study cell cycles of life and to learn about the mechanisms involved at checkpoints in controlling it. She is sure that Bioinformatics is the only field which can provide the information and environment in achieving reach her goal. Back
	Suamya Srivastava is a graduate in Biotechnology from the School of Engineering and Science, Monash University, Malaysia. She developed a keen interest and curiosity for the field of Bioinformatics during her undergraduate days, which brought her to IBAB. What fascinates her at IBAB is the fact that she is exposed to various disciplines of science and technology. Her main area of interest lies in molecular modelling and drug design. She aspires to do an MSc in Molecular Biology and apply the bioinformatics tools in molecular biology research. Back
	Uddipan Sarma is a postgraduate in Nuclear Physics from University of Delhi. He is interested in the complex dynamics of life systems and structural formation of biomolecules. As the course at IBAB gives him a strong hold on structural biophysics and algorothim development, he plans to choose his career in either of the fields. He likes to listen to 'Pink Floyd' and 'Match box 20' music in his free time. Back