Monsieur Babu Roshan PADMANABHAN / Docteur

Major Projects: 1. PhD Thesis : Taxono-genomics, a strategy incorporating genomic data into the taxonomic description of human bacteria Supervisor : Prof. Pierre-Edouard Fournier Project Tenure : Nov 2011 – will finish by Nov 2014 Place : Aix-Marseille University, URMITE, Faculty de Medicine, Marseille, France Accomplished : more than 10 publications including two review, learned Next generation sequencing, de novo assembly, developed a pipeline which the lab uses. 2. Project Title: Transgenic Overexpression of mouse expressing 12R-Lipoxygenase and Phylogenetic Studies of Lipoxygenase gene family. Supervisor : Prof. P Reddanna Project Tenure : May 2006 – Oct 2010 Place : Hyderabad Central University, Animal Science Department, Hyderabad, India Accomplished : poster presentation accepted in European Conference on Computational Biology at Ghent , Belgium - September 26-29, 2010, Learned the techniques of cell culture and embryonic stem cell culture. 3. Project Title: Sequencing, Annotation and Phylogenetic studies of full-length molecular clone of HIV-1 Subtype C. Supervisor : Dr. Udaykumar Ranga Project Tenure : Oct 2004 – Feb 2006 Place : Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Molecular Virology Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit. Bangalore, India Accomplished : co authored an article in journal Retrovirology, done several HIV viral assembly and annotation , developed lab website. 4. Thesis Title : Identification of dispersed repeat families in genome. Course : Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics. Supervisor : Prof Alok Bhattacharya Project Tenure : Jan 2004 – April 2004. Place : Bioinformatics Center, JNU, New Delhi, India. Accomplished : learned programming in perl, bioperl, unix shell scripting. Developed a script to identify and classify the dispersed repeat elements. 5. Thesis Title : Screening of marine algae for Hemagglutinins and the detection of Hemagglutination titre. Course : M.Sc in Marine Biotechnology. Supervisor : Dr. Urmila Barros. Project Tenure : July 2001 – April 2002. Place : Department of Marine Sciences and Biotechnology, Goa University, Goa, India. Minor Projects (In Bioinformatics) 1. Microarray analysis of data and clustering by using K-mean technique and visualization by Principle Component Analysis (PCA). 2. Find out coding and non-coding region using 1st order Markov model. 3. Making a relational database using Oracle8i. 4. Identification of gene families in microbial genomes.