Profile
The laboratory uses an integrated evolutionary bioinformatics platform to understand disease biology with particular focus on better understanding of origin, adaptation, transmission and evolution of pathogenicity and antibiotic-resistance among microbes in a wide variety of environments.
Academic Positions
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Scientist E-I & Co-ordinator
Bioinformatics facility RGCB
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Scientist C & Co-ordinator
Bioinformatics facility RGCB
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DST-INSPIRE Faculty
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
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Post-doctoral Fellow
Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany (Supervisor Prof. Dr. William F. Martin)
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Post-doctoral Fellow
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Tal Dagan)
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PhD stipend
Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany (Supervisor Prof. Dr. William F. Martin)
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Research Assistant
Institute of Biomedical Sciences (IBMS), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (Supervisor: Dr. Ming-Jing Hwang)
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Project Trainee & Research assistant
Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India (Supervisor: Prof. Somdatta Sinha)
Education
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PhD 2009-2013
(Dr. rer. nat.) Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
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MSc Bioinformatics 2004-2006
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
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BSc Computer Science 2001-2004
Kerala University, India
Awards
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2019Young Scientist Award, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE)
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Young researcher startup grant [SFF - F 2015/946-7] - Strategic Research Fund (SFF), Heinrich-Heine University, Germany - 83,998 Euro for 2 years
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2016Karl-Arnold Pries, Outstanding Young Researcher Award, North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences Humanities and the Arts, May 11, Düsseldorf, Germany (10,000 EUR)
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2015Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) International Young Bioinformatician Award 2015, Laureate announced during 12th [BC]2 - the Basel Computational Biology Conference, June 08-10, Basel, Switzerland (10,000 CHF)
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2015Travel grant ,'Kick-off Conference: Life? - A New Funding Initiative Introduces Itself', Dec 17-18, Hannover, Germany (200 Euro)
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2015Young Investigator Travel Award, SMBE 2015, Annual Meeting of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, July 12-17, Vienna, Austria (1500 Euro)
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2014International Travel Award, Symbioses becoming permanent: the origins and evolutionary trajectories of organelles. Sackler Symposium of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. October 16-17, Irvine, CA (300 Dollar)
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2014First prize, poster presentation - SMBE satellite meeting on reticulated microbial evolution April 27 - 30, Kiel, Germany
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2007International summer school fellowship (FIND project 2007) at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK
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2006Summer traineeship at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
Memberships
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Member, Editorial board of Discover Viruses-Springer Nature
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Member, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) (2010-)
Reviewership Editorships
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Genome Biology and Evolution
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Microbial Genomics
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Bioinformatics