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PhD in Bioinformatics

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RAHUL AGARWAL

Email: vibes1002003@gmail.com
ragarwal@amity.edu

University/Present Address
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, A-block, Sec-125,,Noida (INDIA)

Motive:

My principal research interests lie in the field of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Academic Employment:

Adhoc Lecturer at Bioinformatics Department, Amity Institute Of Biotechnology, Amity University , Noida (India) since June, 2007

EDUCATION

M.Sc., Bioinformatics from University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

Result: 78.54% (with Distinction)
Topics included: Biological Databases, Sequences Analysis, Protein Structure , Visualisation and Prediction, Bioinformatics Algorithms,Molecular Phylogeny, Computer Model Of Evolution, Genomics and Proteomics, Concepts of Basic Sciences, Data Structure , Statistics, Mathematics , Computer Science , Biophysics , Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

HONOUR AND AWARD

GATE 2006 qualified organised by IIT-Kharagpur in Life Science

MASTER’S PROJECTS

PREDICTION OF TOPOLOGY OF TRANSMEMBRANE HELICES IN PROTEIN SEQUENCES WITH HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM)

Details: I used Matlab as an editor for coding in this project. I have developed HMM and decode the sequence by using different decoding algorithm of HMM.

Advisor: Prof. A.K.Gupta

DETECTION OF TATA BOX IN E.COLI PROMOTER SEQUENCE USING POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX

Details: I used Matlab as an editor for coding in this project. I have developed 0th order markov model and detect within the sequence the TATA BOX region by using Position Weight Matrix.

Advisor: Prof. A.K.Gupta

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

06/2007-Present        Taught Bioinformatics and Computational Biology to undergraduate students of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

                                   Taught Master level course like Bioinformatics Algorithms in Master of Science in Bioinformatics , and Bioinformatics in Master of Technology in Biotechnology

                                    Supervise students for Summer Training projects in the field of Bioinformatics to undergraduate students of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

KEY SKILLS:

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: have good working experience with different operating system environment like MS-DOS, Windows 98 /XP/NT, UNIX / LINUX(Fedora core and Red Hat).

System Administration: have sufficient knowledge of Windows and LINUX system administration.

Programming Languages known: C, C++, Perl, Core Java, vb, Python, Matlab.

Advance Java(J2EE) : Servelet,Socket,JSP,RMI,Swing,NetBeans.

Database: Oracle 9i (Oracle Database,Developer 2K,Database Administrator and PL/SQL), JDBC.

Web Progamming: HTML,XML,CGI,Vbscript,JavaScript.

SEMINAR ATTENDED:

“Indo-Russian seminar on Recent Trends in Applied Bioinformatics and Medi-Informatics” held on 6th-7th Nov,2005 conducted by Indo-Russian Centre For Biotechnology of IIIT, Allahabad.

AREA OF INTEREST:

Bioinformatics: Protein Structure Prediction, evolutionary bioinformatics (comparative genomics) analyses , gene regulation, phylogeny/adaptive evolution, protein domain analysis and functional annotation, microarray bioinformatics, alternative splicing, proteomics, and protein structure analysis.

Computer science: Genetic Algorithm, HMM, Simulated-Annealing, Neural Network, Programming in different Languages, Algorithm Development.