Scientist G
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
Profile
The laboratory studies the intricacies of neuropsychiatric disorders including diagnosis & therapeutics of these diseases from genetic, pharmacogenetic, immunogenetic and epigenetic perspectives.
Academic Positions
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Post-doctoral Fellow
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
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Post-doctoral Fellow
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Education
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PhD 1992
M.L.Sukhadia University, Udaipur
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MSc 1987
Dr.H.S.Gaur University, Sagar
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BSc 1985
Bhopal University, Bhopal
Awards
- CBOL Travel Fellowship to attend the Regional meeting and International Conference on Barcoding, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 1999International fellowship to Brain Science Institute (BSI), RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
- 1994-1996CZA Fellowship for Post-doctral Fellow
- 1992-1994CSIR Fellowship for Research Associate
- 1991Training fellowship to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), New York, USA
- 1987-1992CSIR Fellowship for JRF/SRF
Memberships
Member, Assoc. of DNA Fingerprinting and Allied Technologies (ADNAT)
President, Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG)
Member, American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
Member, International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)
Member, SACNET a regional loop of BIONET International
Editorial Assignments
- Associate Editor, J of Genetics, Indian Academy of Science, Elsevier Publication
- Guest editor, Special issue on Pharmacogenetics, Indian J of Human Genetics
- Editorial Board member, Indian J of Human Genetics
- Academic Council member, Kalasalingam Univ.,Krishnankoil (TN)
- Adjunct Professor Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences, (ICCONS), Shoranur.
- Visiting Professor, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil. (TN)
- Guest faculty, National Institute of Speech and Hearing, Trivandrum
- Doctoral committee member, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
- Doctoral committee member, SCTIMST, Trivandrum
- Doctoral committee member, NIMHANS, Bangalore.
- Vice President, Indian Society of Human Genetics(ISHG)
- Convenor of OUTREACH program of Indian Society of Human Genetics for South Asian countries
Students Achievements
- Young Scientist Award on Population Genetics. Indian Soc. of Human Genetics. India (2002). Anitha A.
- Summer Training Fellowship. RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan (2002). Anitha A.
- Best trainee award on expression technologies. AIIMS, New Delhi (2003). Rasmi Thomas.
- Young Scientist Appreciation Award on Population Genetics. Indian Soc. of Human Genetics. India (2004). Rasmi Thomas.
- CSIR travel grant for 54th Annual meeting of ASHG. American Society of Human Genetics, Toronto Canada (2004). Rasmi Thomas.
- ASHI travel award for 14th International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop and 35th Australasian Society of Immunology conference, Melbourne, Australia (2005). Rasmi Thomas.
- HUGO-AP travel award for Joint 6th Human Genome Organization (HUGO) Pacific Meeting & 7th Asia-Pacific Human Genetics Conference, Taiwan (2006). Neetha N.V.
- Best Poster Award XXII Annual Conference of Indian Society of Human Genetics, Kolkata (2007). Linda Koshy V.
- Summer Training Fellowship. RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan (2007). Neetha N.V.
- CBOL travel award for 2nd International Barcode of Life Conference, Taiwan from September 17th- 21st (2007). Chandrasekhar N.
- International Society for Psychiatric Genetics Travel grant for World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Newyork, October 7th -11th (2007). Neetha N.V.
- Ms. Binithamol K Polakkattil won the young scientist award at the 46th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Human Genetics (https://www.ishg.co.in/), held from 8-9th April 2022 at MAHE, Manipal.
