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FACULTY
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Prof.
N. Yathindra, Director and Professor of Bioinformatics
Prof. N. Yathindra is Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied
Biotechnology (IBAB). He received his Ph.D. from the Center of Advanced
Study in Biophysics, University of Madras. His postdoctoral work was
carried out at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prof. Yathindra has
served as Chairman, School of Physical Sciences and Dean-Academic at
University of Madras. His research involves the use of computational
approaches to study structure and function of biological macromolecules
and he has made notable contributions to the development of
stereochemical principles of nucleic acids. He is a member of the
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Dr.
Kshitish Acharya, obtained his doctoral degree from
the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He did post-doctoral research
at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and then at the
University of Virginia. Thereafter, he was heading the research and
production unit of a growing biotechnology company in India. Dr.
Kshitish is basically a reproductive biologist and has used molecular
biology extensively in his research work. Though he is particularly
interested in studying differential transcriptional regulation in
reproductive vs. other systems, he has multiple research interests and
enjoys flexibility in technical approaches. He has been with IBAB since
March 2003. Apart from teaching and research, he is spearheading the
short term courses (STCs) and the LCBT programme. More... |
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Dr. Shipra
Agrawal has ten years of research and teaching experience in the
areas of plant biotechnology and bioinformatics. Previously she was a
faculty member at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)
Allahabad.
Recently, as a post-doctoral
fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Center of Advanced and Scientific
Research (JNCASR) Bangalore, her research was in the area of motif
based characterization of human meiotic recombination hotspots,
transcriptional regulation of the human PC4 gene, computational
analysis work on chromatin remodeling factors and modeling and
simulation studies on mouse importin-4. In addition, she also worked on
micro-RNA precursor prediction from non-coding RNA. More...
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Dr. Andreas Bender
was the lead faculty for the Postgraduate Cheminformatics Course at IBAB in
2008. Dr. Bender's work comprises descriptor and classification algorithm development
and evaluation, as well as applications to predict biological targets
for small molecules. Andreas received his PhD from the University of
Cambridge (UK) developing virtual screening methods working with Prof.
Robert C. Glen at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics /
Department of Chemistry. He was a Cambridge Gates Scholar and a member
of Darwin College while at Cambridge and is the author of more than 30
publications in the cheminformatics and bioinformatics fields and
referee for several journals in the area. Further information can
be found at http://www.andreasbender.de.
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Dr. Richa Grover received her doctoral degree in Molecular and Cell Biology at the Indian Institute of Science. Richa has worked extensively on the role of critical RNA-protein interactions in translational control of cellular mRNAs especially implicated in carcinogenesis. Her research at IBAB focuses on functional screening of novel bioactive components utilizing mammalian cell lines as her model system. She uses the techniques of molecular biology, genetic engineering and cell culture in order to address her research objectives. Richa enjoys the excitement of research but tremendously appreciates teaching and interacting with students as well. |
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Dr.
Ashwini Mathur, adjunct faculty at IBAB, received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from
University of California, Berkeley and subsequently taught as a faculty
member at University of California, San Francisco before joining GSK
(US) in 1996. He headed GSK's Biometrics operations in India till 2006
and now heads the Biostatistics and Statistical Reporting operation of
Novartis in India. He is a member of American Statistical Association
and Secretary of International Biometrics Society. He has more than 35
medical collaborative papers in international journals, 2 book chapters
and numerous invited lectures, presentations and posters at
international conferences.
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Prof.
Naren Ramakrishna, who holds an adjunct appointment
at IBAB, is an associate professor of computer science and faculty
fellow at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the areas of
software systems for computational science, data mining, and
information management, especially as they pertain to bioinformatics
applications. He has contributed to the development of software systems
such as Expresso and JigCell that automate tedious aspects of
microarray experiment management and cell cycle modeling, respectively.
His current research focus is the development of novel data mining
techniques that expose important abstractions to biologists for problem
solving and knowledge discovery. Ramakrishnan currently serves on the
editorial board of IEEE Computer. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer
sciences from Purdue University in 1997. More information about his
teaching and research is available at: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~naren. |
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Dr.
Gayatri Saberwal, did her PhD in the life sciences at
the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. She then did
post-doctoral work at at the Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, New York. She has been involved with IBAB since its
establishment in 2001, and has had various responsibilities. Since 2003
she has been spearheading the entrepreneurship activities at the
institute. More... |
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Dr. Vibin Ramakrishnanobtained his
his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and did his
postdoctoral work at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
Aside from his publications in theoretical and computational biology,
he has been involved in the development of GeoFOLD, a tool for
prdicting protien folding kinetics, mechanisam, and pathways based on
topology, and IdeAS, a tool for sequence optimization that has been
developed and calibrated against small and medium sized protiens. His
current research intrests are in the area of protien folding design. More...
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Dr.
Shireen Vali, received her PhD in Neurobiology from University
of California, Davis in 1997, where she studied the signal transduction
pathway involved in the regulation of a metabolic gene in mouse. She
subsequently did her post-doctoral research at Stanford University
Medical School in cystic fibrosis. At Stanford she also developed
various Online Continued Medical Education (CME) courses. Dr. Vali has
also worked in the field of histopathology at a biotech company. She
joined IBAB as a Faculty Scientist in 2003 and her research interests
include the area of proteomics and studying the repertoire of
multiprotein complexes involved in cellular function and signalling.
She has recently started a company, Cellworks Group Inc. The company
was incubated at IBAB for six months. As it has grown, it has now
graduated out of the incubator to its own premises. Dr. Vali continues
as an adjunct faculty at the institute.

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