Senior Scientists

Dr.S.Ananthi

She is working as Senior Scientist from July 2013 to till date. She finished her bachelor’s, master’s and master of philosophy degrees in Microbiology. She obtained her doctorate degree for Bio Medical Sciences from Madurai Kamaraj University. Her major research involves in identification & validation of prognostic biomarkers using proteomic approaches in oral cancer. In addition, she is been involved in understanding the role of RASSF proteins in regulating miRNA 1 & 133A2 and comparative analysis of RASSF [1,7,10] through proteome wide approach.

Dr.Lakshmi Revathi Perumalsamy, Ph.D

Senior Scientist ( October 2013- present)

She is working on the role of RASSFs particularly RASSF7 in regulation of tumor metastasis. Her current primary focus is to understand RASSF7 regulation of metastasis and inflammation. She obtained her integrated Master's (Hons) in Biological sciences and Bachelor's (Hons.) degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS-Pilani). Her doctoral thesis at National Centre for Biological Science (NCBS), Bangalore under the guidance of Dr. Apurva Sarin described a novel spatial regulation of Notch activity in mediating cell survival.

Ph.D Students

Debduti Datta

She is a CSIR Senior Research Fellow (SRF) and joined as a Ph.D student in July 2008. She is working on signaling pathways associated with tumor biology. A major part of the work involves molecular characterization of novel nucleolar GTPases in breast cancer. She obtained her bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in Zoology and master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Zoology from University of Pune.

Satya Prakash Singh

Satya Prakash Singh is a Ph.D student and joined in July 2008. He is working on HIV/SIV accessory proteins such as Vpr and Vpx. Major part of his work involves understanding the mechanism by which these accessory proteins help in early stage of virus life cycle. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biology and master’s degree in Biotechnology.

Indu Jose

Indu Jose T. (CSIR-SRF) is a graduate student who joined the lab in January 2009. Her work focuses on the functional characterization of a putative nucleolar GTPase, namely GNL3L. She obtained her bachelor's degree (B.Sc) in Biotechnology (Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education) and post graduation degree (M.Sc) in Molecular Biology (Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras).

Sneha Priya

R.Sneha Priya, is a GATE fellowship student, who joined as M.S student in July 2008 in Laboratory of Molecular Virology and later upgraded to direct Ph.D. She has completed her Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Biotechnology. Her research objective primarily is to study the Indian subtype C HIV-1 envelope protein(Env). As part of the study, she is characterizing unique functional domains in the cytoplasmic tail of a chronic Indian HIV-1 isolate. Secondly, based on characterization, She is designed a new Env based immunogen as a candidate AIDS vaccine, whose efficacy will be tested in rabbits and in process of testing in macaques.

Anbarasu K

K. Anbarasu is a PhD student joined in July 2009. He is working on functional characterization of RAS Association domain containing family member which is a RAS effector and a potential tumor suppressor. He obtained his bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) and master's degree (M.Sc.) in Biotechnology from Bharathiar University.

Isai Pratha

Isai pratha is a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) and joined as a PhD student in January 2010. She is working on functional characterisation of RASSF8 and a major part of her work involves in understanding the transcriptional regulation of RASSF8. She obtained her bachelor’s degree (B.Sc) and master’s degree (M.Sc) in Biochemistry.

Rajasekhar Reddy

He is a CSIR-UGC Senior Research Fellow (SRF) and has joined as a PhD student since Jan 2012. He is working on functional characterization of RAS association domain family1, comparing the effects of RASSF1A and RASSF1C and studying the transcriptional regulation of RASSF1C. He obtained his bachelor’s in Microbiology and master’s degree in Biotechnology.

Rehna Krishnan

Rehna Krishnan is a CSIR Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and joined as a PhD student in July 2012. She is working on the functional characterization of Guanine nucleotide binding protein like 1 and a major part of her work involves role of this protein family in ribosome biogenesis and nucleolar stress pathway. She obtained her bachelor’s degree (B. Sc.) in Microbiology and master’s degree (MSc) in Microbiology.

Raghul Kumar

Raghul Kumar is a HTRA Research Scholar who joined as a MS student in July 2013 and upgraded to Ph.D in July 2014. He is working on functional characterization of Protein-Protein Interactions involving RASSFs 1,7,10 and the signalling pathways modulated by them. He obtained his Bachelor's degree (B.Tech) in Biotechnology.

Master Students

TBD

Project Staff

Indu . P

Indu .P is working as a Project Assistant since May 2009. She manages all project accounts and lab requirements.

Pavitra

Pavitra is working as a project associate since November 2013. She is Involved in characterising the functional role of RASSF7- a tumor suppressor protein on cellular metabolism. She obtained her bachelor’s degree (B.Tech) in Biotechnology and her master’s degree (MS) in Biological sciences.

Durairaj

Durairaj is working as a Project Associate since March 2014. He takes care of DNA sequencing and maintaining the Cancer Tissues Repository. He obtained both his BSc and MSc in Biochemistry.

Vinoth

Vinoth Kumar is working as a Project Assistant since July 2013. He is Involved in collecting Cancer Tissue samples from various Hospitals in Chennai.

Christopher

Christopher is working as a Project Assistant since Oct. 2013. He is Involved in collecting Cancer Tissue samples from various Hospitals in Chennai.

Surya

Surya R is working as a Project Assistant since January 2014. He is Involved in collecting Cancer Tissue samples from various Hospitals in Chennai.

Alumni

Post-Doctorates

Dr. M. Yamuna

Dr. Yogendra S. Padwad

Ph.D Students

Rajendra Kumar

Prabhat K. Singhal

MRK Subba rao

Gita Kumari

Neelima Boddapati

Pankaj Gupta

MS Students

Prushotham

Santosh Pathak

Subir Biswas

Narayanan S

Ravishankar A

Sujitha

Pandey R C

Reshma V

Dual degree students

Srivats

Sri Teja Mullapudi

Harsh Nagpal

B.Tech students

Prathik

Chaitra

Project Staffs

Vijaya Kumar C

Mahesh K

Suryaraja R

Sunny BSR

Junetha Syed

Anitha Mamidi

Selvasankar

Prabu Pandi

Velmurugan