I am a computational systems biologist. I lead the EvolOMICs group consisting of young researchers and students at the Tezpur University. We study complex phenomena of evolution in biological systems starting from the subcellular molecular levels microscopic to the whole organism and ecosystem level macroscopic level using Next Generation Sequencing, Big data and robust computer algorithms. EvolOMICs group
Post Doctoral Scientists
| Sl. | Title | Sponsored | Start date | End date | Fund |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Integrative approach for understanding the role of noncoding mutations in the evolution of biological systems | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India | 2018-02-01 | 2023-01-31 | |
| 2 | A case-control pilot study for identification and validation of Gallbladder cancer biomarkers fromNorth-East Indian population using transcriptomics approach. | Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Government of India. | 2021-07-29 | 2023-07-28 | 19.6 Lakhs |
| SL | Title | Sponsored | Start date | End date | Fund |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Integrative systems biology approach to identify the molecular response signatures in Rice during concurrent biotic (Rhizoctonia solani) and abiotic (heat) stresses | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India | 2018-07-01 | 2021-06-30 | 82,96,988 |
| 2 | Big data and Machine learning based approach to understand combined stress response signatures in multiple cultivating crop plants | Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) , Government of India | 2019-11-07 | 2022-02-19 | 23,24,102 |
| SL | Awards | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selected as member of the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), the first and only recognized young scientist academy of India, established by Indian National Science Academy. | 2021 |
| 2 | Selected as ‘Young Investigator’ to participate in the the annual Young Investigators' Meeting (YIM 2020) held in Mahabalipuram, India organised by IndiaBioscience | 2020 |
| 3 | Invited to Participate as Inpsiring Teacher in the 3rd India Nobel Prize Series 2019, jointly organized by the Nobel Foundation Sweden and the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. | 2019 |
| 4 | Ramalingaswamy Re-entry Fellowship (2018-2023) by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. | 2017 |
| 5 | Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) fellowship from European Cooperation in Science and Technology to visit Comparative & Integrative Genomics Lab, University of Ghent, Belgium. | 2015 |
| 6 | Travel award to WG2 meeting of COST action Phenotyping: from the lab to the field in Carcavelos, Portugal. | 2015 |
| 7 | Travel award, and invitation to present research work at COST SUSTAIN workshop on cellular dynamics of effector action and recognition, held in Tel Aviv, Israel. | 2015 |
| 8 | Full sponsorship award from the BBSRC (UK) for the ERASynBio Summer School: Introduction to Synthetic Biology in plant systems, Jointly organized by John Innes Centre, BBSRC and University of Cambridge. | 2014 |
| 9 | Young scientist’s award during ‘Advanced Lecture Course on Systems Biology’, by the SystemsX.ch (Switzerland), BMBF (Germany) and ERASysAPP (EU), held in Innsbruck, Austria. | 2014 |
| 10 | Travel grant from www.unifor.no, to present my paper in the 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology held in Las Vegas, USA | 2012 |
| 11 | Fellowship from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), to present my paper in the Fourth StatSeq workshop "Statistical Challenges of the 1000€ genome sequences in plants", held in Verona, Italy. | 2012 |
| 12 | Full sponsorship award from the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS ) to present my research as an oral talk in XXIV SPPS Congress, Stavanger, Norway. | 2011 |
| 13 | Travel fellowship from Faculty of Natural Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology for the 10th International Conference in Systems Biology (ICSB) held in Heidelberg, Germany. | 2011 |
| 14 | Genesys Young Scientists Runners up award and Poster Award, during International Conference on Systems Biology, in Edinburgh (UK). (Selected out of >500 posters). | 2011 |
| 15 | Received full fellowship from the Welcome Trust (UK) to attend 10 days long Welcome Trust Advance Course "Functional Genomics to Systems Biology" Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK | 2010 |
| 16 | Senior Research Fellowship in Trans Disciplinary Research area, by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India | 2009 |
| 17 | Junior Research Fellowship (DBT-COE), by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India | 2007 |
| 18 | Summer Research Fellowship, by National Centre for Biological Sciences (Tata Institute of Fundamental Researches), Banglaore, India | 2005 |
| 19 | Child scientists award (state level), in National Children's Science Congress, organised by National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Govt. of India. | 1995 |
She has joined PhD in January 2019 and defended in 2024. She has completed her masters in biotechnology. Her research area involves Cancer systems biology. She has qualified GATE (2018) in Biotechnology
He has joined PhD in January 2020. He has completed his masters in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. His area of research involves combined stress in plant crops. He has qualified GATE(2019) in Life science.
She has joined PhD in June 2019. She has done her M.Sc in Zoology. Her research area involves computational biology of human metabolic disorder.
Quinat joined as a Ph.D. student in August 2023. She completed her MSc in Zoology from the Banaras Hindu University. Her area of work is Gut Microbiome and human disease. She has qualified NET JRF 2023 and GATE- XL 2023.
Robita joined as a research scholar in January 2024. She has completed her Masters in Zoology from Rajiv Gandhi University. She has qualified CSIR-UGC NET-LS 2022. Her area of research is microbiome and human diseases.
Arpita joined as a research scholar in January 2024. She has completed her Masters in Life Sciences from Dibrugarh University. She has qualified CSIR-UGC NET-LS 2022. Her area of research is combined stresses in plant crops.
He worked as a research fellow in the DBT sponsored project "Integrative approach for understanding the role of noncoding mutations in the evolution of biological systems".
She worked as a project fellow in the DBT sponsored project "Integrative approach for understanding the role of noncoding mutations in the evolution of biological systems".
Ankur was a M.Sc integrated student and later joined as a JRF. He worked on plants biotic and abiotic stress. At present, he is working as a PhD candidate at IPK Leibniz-Institut, Germany
Mithil worked as JRF with me. He worked on noncoding mutations in human cancers. A present, he is working as a PhD candidate at IPK Leibniz-institut, Germany
John was a MSc student here in my lab. Currently he is a PhD student in Edit Cowan University, Western Australia.
Chiranjeev was a Integrated MSc student. His area of work is the ETENBR Pipeline and its implementation in the HPC environment.
Mrinmoy is an alumni of Department of MBBT (2019). He worked as a project assistant and his area of research includes network biology and regulatory networks.
Ria was an M.Sc. student in this lab and her area of research includes systems biology of human hepatobiliary cancer.
Barasha was an M.Sc. student in the lab from 2019-2021 and her area of research is human systems biology of gallstone to gall bladder cancer progression.
Saptarshi was an Integrated M.Sc student in the lab and his area of work includes evolutionary systems biology of 3000 rice genomes.
Drishtee worked as a project assistant in the lab. Now she is working as a PhD student in IBB-PAS, Warsaw, Poland.
| SL | Title | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conducted workshop on ‘Computational Genome Analysis of SARS-CoV-2’, during 'inSCIgnis 2021' the annual mega science fest organised by the Students' Science Council of Tezpur University. | 2021 | Workshop |
| 2 | Popular Science Talk during 52 Biennial Conference of Assam Science Society, Bihpuria, Assam, India. | 2021 | Talks |
| 3 | Invited popular lecture during Lakhimpur District level National Children Science Congress organized by National Council for Science and Technology, Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. | 2020 | Talks |
| 4 | Biological Data analysis using R and Molecular Phylogenetics”, 5-6 March 2020, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, DST, Government of India | 2020 | Workshop |
| 5 | Participated with invitation and presented poster in the annual Young Investigators' Meeting (YIM 2020) held in Mahabalipuram, 14-18 February 2020, organised by IndiaBioscience. | 2020 | Talks |
| 6 | “Stimulating the Young Minds”, invited lecture during Second State Science Festival, Assam Science Technology & Environment Council, held in Tezpur, Assam. | 2019 | Talks |
| 7 | Presented a poster during India-EMBO Symposium, Regulatory epigenomics: From large data to useful models, 10 – 13 March 2019, Chennai, India. | 2019 | Seminar |
| 8 | National workshop on Machine learning in R & Python, 28th January- 01st February 2019, Tezpur University, as Resource person. | 2019 | Workshop |
| 9 | Invited talk on “P-4 medicine” during Translational Drug discovery: Current trends and future interventions, 10th and 11th November 2018, Assam Downtown University, Guwahati. | 2018 | Talks |
| 10 | Resource person in Bioinformatics training cum workshop on "Tool for Transcriptome Analysis", 26-27 April 2018, CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST)- Assam. | 2018 | Workshop |
| 11 | Delivered a lecture in the International Seminar cum Workshop on “Computer Aided Drug Design for Human Pathogens (CADDHP)” at Tezpur University, Tezpur during 12-17 Feb 2018. | 2018 | Workshop |
| 12 | International Symposium on Biodiversity and Biobanking, 27th -29 January 2018, IIT Guwahati, Invited talk. | 2018 | Talks |
| 13 | Annual day lecture, Mangaldai College, Assam. | 2018 | Talks |
| 14 | Invited talk ‘Interdisciplinary Biology’ Department of Physics, Madhabdev University, Assam. | 2018 | Talks |
| 15 | Invited talk on “Synthetic Life”, 26.10.2018, DBT-Biotech Hub, B. Barooah College, Guwahati Assam. | 2018 | Talks |
| 16 | Annual Orientation Day Lecture on, University of Science and Technology (USTM), Meghalaya, India. | 2017 | Talks |
| 17 | Bioinformatics training cum workshop, 11-12 July 2017, CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST)- Assam, Resource person | 2017 | Workshop |
| 18 | Advancement of second-generation sequencing technology for health research, Regional Medical Research Centre - NE Region – ICMR, attendance. | 2017 | Seminar |
| 19 | Attended the international symposium ‘Bioinformatics for Human Health and Disease’ took place at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany. | 2016 | Workshop |
| 20 | Biotech Entrepreneurship Training Program, summer sem., Heidelberg University, Germany. | 2016 | Workshop |
| 21 | Talk at the DKFZ PostDoc Network annual retreat, Neustadt, Germany. | 2016 | Talks |
| 22 | Talk at the annual retreat of Molecular Systems Biology Group, NTNU, Trondheim Norway. | 2015 | Talks |
| 23 | An invited talk at the CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat, India. | 2015 | Talks |
| 24 | ERASynBio 2nd Summer School: Introduction to Synthetic Biology in plant systems at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, Organised by BBSRC, and University of Cambridge | 2014 | Workshop |
| 25 | Indo-Norwegian joint workshop on academic collaboration, held in New Delhi | 2014 | Workshop |
| 26 | Oral talk and a poster during Advanced Lecture Course on Systems Biology (SysBio2014), Innsbruck, Austria. | 2014 | Talks |
| 27 | Talk during STATSEQ meeting Gene Network Inference with systems genetic data and beyond, Paris, France. | 2013 | Workshop |
| 28 | Presented a talk in the Norwegian Bioinformatics Forum meeting, Trondheim, Norway. | 2012 | Talks |
| 29 | Talk in the 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Las Vegas, USA | 2012 | Talks |
| 30 | Presented poster and short talk in 4th StatSeq workshop | 2012 | Seminar |
| 31 | Presented an invited talk in 10th Norwegian Arabidopsis Meeting, Norway. | 2012 | Talks |
| 32 | Presented an invited talk in XXIV SPPS Congress, Stavanger, Norway. | 2011 | Talks |
| 33 | Presented poster in International Conf. on Systems Biology, Heidelberg, Germany. | 2011 | Seminar |
| 34 | Presented poster in International Conf. on Systems Biology, Edinburgh (UK). | 2010 | Seminar |
| 35 | Participated in the advance course on Functional Genomics and Systems Biology, held at Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge. | 2010 | Workshop |
| 36 | Poster during National Symposium on Cellular and Molecular Biophysics (NCMB), CCMB, Hyderabad, India | 2009 | Seminar |
| 37 | Presented a poster International Workshop and Conference on: Statistical Physics Approaches to Multi-disciplinary Problems, 2008, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. | 2008 | Workshop |
| 38 | International Workshop on Physics in Biology: A Synergy (IWPBS 2007), University of Hyderabad, India. | 2008 | Workshop |
| 39 | Attended 11th ADNAT symposium on Structural Biology and Structure Prediction at CCMB Hyderabad. | 2007 | Workshop |
| 40 | Presented paper on “Pharmacogenomics” in a conference jointly organized by Association of Biological Chemist and Dept. of Biochemistry University of Madras, India, 2005. | 2005 | Seminar |
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