Centre for Life Sciences

Santosh Thakur

Biography Thakur Santosh is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Life Sciences at Mahindra University. He earned the Doctor of Philosophy in Knowledge Capturing and Analysis of Big Data from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. He has nine years of experience in teaching and […]

Varun Kumar

Biography Varun Kumar received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Jaypee University of Information Technology, Himachal Pradesh. His doctorate research was carried out in a Programme support under ‘Centres of Excellence’ scheme of DBT, Gov. of India. Dr. Kumar’s research contributed to the elucidation of novel metabolic pathways for the biosynthesis of major phytochemicals in […]

Akanksha Singh

Biography Akanksha Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Life Sciences at the Mahindra University. She earned her PhD degree in the Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University. She investigated the evolutionary conservation of sexual behavioral traits, in a closely related Drosophila species using behavioral and genetic tools. Later, she moved to Cornell […]

Runa Kuley

Biography Runa Kuley is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Life Sciences at Mahindra University. She earned her PhD from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. During her PhD she characterized the Dutch Q-fever outbreak strains of Coxiella burnetii bacteria, which led to a better understanding of the host-pathogen interactions and elucidated novel […]

Pijus Kanti Barman

Biography Pijus K. Barman earned his Ph.D. in Immunology from the Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India. During his doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. B. Ravindran he studied the regulation of inflammatory responses during tissue injury and infection. His first postdoctoral training in Prof. Timothy Koh’s lab at the University of Illinois at […]

Sanjeev Kumar Choudhry

Biography Sanjeev received Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. During his doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Ida J. van der Klei he studied the role of peroxisomes in cellular aging. He completed his postdoctoral training in John Aitchison’s laboratory at the Institute for Systems Biology and […]

Sabeeha Hasnain

Biography Sabeeha Hasnain is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Life Sciences at Mahindra University. She completed her Ph.D. in Computational and Systems Biology from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. During her Ph.D., she worked on developing analytical and coarse-grained models to understand the diffusive motion of proteins inside an E. coli […]

Bipin Singh

Biography Bipin finished his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from IIIT-Hyderabad. During his Ph.D., he worked on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of mutation-induced thermostability in industrially important bacterial lipases through molecular simulations. His broad area of specialization is computational drug discovery and structural bioinformatics. He received a highly competitive GPU hardware grant from NVIDIA corporation, USA in […]

Aruna Kumar Chelluboyina

Biography Aruna Kumar Chelluboyina, Ph.D., is as an Assistant Professor in Center for Lifesciences at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai in 2016. Post-Ph.D., he completed his postdoctoral training from 2017 to 2023 at three different eminent research institutes in USA – Harvard Medical School, […]

Ravi Kiran Donthu

Biography Dr. Donthu completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009, specializing in cattle genomics and comparative genomics. His doctoral research focused on developing an in silico dense SNP map within a QTL region known to be associated with milk production traits in the North American Holstein population. Additionally, he identified […]

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