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Professional Experience:

Feb 2012 - At present:

Post-doctoral Fellow(Research Associate Professor)| VCU, Richmond, VA, USA.

Aug 2010 - Oct 2010:

Visiting Research Fellow| cBio-MSKCC, Sander Research Group, New York, USA.

Oct 2007 - Jun 2008:

Perl Software and Web developer (Bioinformatician)| Genseq, Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

Nov 2006 - Sep 2007:

Perl Software developer (Bioinformatician)| Biobase Database India Private Limited.

Oct 2005 - Sep 2006:

Research Student (Bioinformatician)| Conway Institute, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.

Education:

Skills:

Programming Language:

C, C++, Perl, Python,Shell script, SQL

Web Technologies :

LAMP, AJAX, CGI-PERL, JavaScript, PHP

Markup Language:

HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS

Databases:

MySQL, Oracle

Bioinformatics Tools:

BioPERL, Bioconductor, BLAST, Clustalw, IMPALA, HMMER, Phylip, Rasmol and Other Bioinformatics Web tools and Databases

Operating System:

Window, Linux, UNIX

Statistical Tool:

MatLab and R

Fellowships and Awards:

10th Dec. 2010:

HMRI Sponsored Best Student Poster Presentation, Biomarker Discovery Conference, Shola Bay, NSW, Australia.

July - Oct. 2010:

Macquarie University PGRF Travel Fellowship.

2008 - Jan 2012:

iMQRES Fellowship .

2005 - 2006:

Research Stipend, Supported by SFI (Science Foundation of Ireland).

2002 - 2005:

MSc stipend, Supported by Welcome-Trust.

Workshops:

Winter School in Mathematics & Computational Biology ARC Centre of Excellence In Bioinformatics and IMB, Brisbane, Australia: July 4 - 8, 2011.
Biomedical Research from Bench to Field: 1st Meeting of Indian and Max Planck Society Scientists: March 6 - 9, 2005.
Molecules, Machines and Networks: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore: January 5-9th 2004.
Cellular traffic: 28th Mahabaleshwar Seminar on Modern Biology: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai: 23rd Feb 2003.

Presentation & Posters:

1. Poster presentation at "Biomarker Discovery Conference-2010","Network Study of Human Protein Location", Dec 6-10, 2010, Shola Bay, NSW, Australia.
2. Poster presentation at "InCOB-2009","Statistical Significance of Protein Interaction and Metabolic Data for SCL Prediction", September 9-11, 2009, Biopolis,Singapore.
3. Oral presentation at "SYMBIO-2009","Understanding the subcellular localisation (SCL) of eukaryotic proteins ", September 7-8, 2009, Biopolis,Singapore.
4. Poster presentation at "GIW-2008","Integration of Protein Interaction and Metabolic Data for Subcellular Localization Prediction", December 1-3, 2008, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
5. Poster presentation at "Annual Research Talks","FASSM, specific signature motifs in protein families", January 18-20, 2008, NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore, India.
6. Poster presentation at "International Workshop on Systems Biology 2006","EATDB: A researcher-managed web based Application", 17-19 July 2006, Hamilton Institute, Ireland.
7. Poster presentation at " Indo-French Bioinformatics Meeting (IFBM-2006)","EATDB: Enzyme Analysis Tool and Database, 12-14 June 2006, NCBS-TIFR, India.
8. Poster presentation at "An International Symposium on human origin and genetics", 17-19 Feb. 2005,NCBS-TIFR, India.
9. Oral Presentation of my Master works at "The Student Symposium, APBC2005", 15-16 Jan 2005, Singapore.
10. Poster presentation at "The Third Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference", 17-21 Jan, 2005, Singapore.