I am a computational biologist. I joined the Department of Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University as an Assistant Professor in 2009. Since then,  I have been offering the courses, ‘Biostatistics’, ‘Programming in Perl’ and ‘Bioinformatics: Sequence Analysis’ to M.Sc. Bioinformatics students, and ‘Mathematics for Biosciences’, ‘Fundamentals of Biostatistics’ and ‘Perl Programming for Biologists’ to M. Tech. Computational Biology students. My research group focuses on (i) discovering novel therapeutics against multi-drug resistant pathogens, (ii) characterization of unannotated genes/proteins of pathogenic significance, and (iii) dissecting metabolic pathways associated with draught response mechanisms in economically important plant species using integrated computational approaches.

I did my post graduation in Applied Mathematics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and was awarded Ph.D. in 1998 by the same university for the work on ‘Computational analysis of statistical compositions of nucleotide sequences’. I have several years of postdoctoral experience from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata in the field of computational biology. I had an opportunity to serve as a lecturer for a short period at Jadavpur University, Kolkata as well.

Comparative Omics, Systems Biology, Structural Bioinformatics