Gaurav Kumar
From Bioinformatics
Professional Experience:
- Aug 2010 - Oct 2010 | Visiting PhD student | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)[1], New York, USA.
- Oct 2007 - Jun 2008 | Perl Software and Web developer (Bioinformatician) | Genseq [2], Cyberjaya, Malaysia.
- Nov 2006 - Sep 2007 | Perl Software developer (Bioinformatician) | Biobase [3] Database India Private Limited.
- Oct 2005 - Sep 2006 | Research Student (Bioinformatician) | Conway Institute, UCD [4], Dublin, Ireland.
Education:
- PhD Student | Bioinformatics | 2008- 15th Jan 2012 | Macquarie University[5],sydney, Australia.
- Master of Science | Computational Biology | 2002 - 2005 |NCBS-TIFR[6], Bangalore,India.
- Bachelor of Science | Biotechnology | 1999 - 2002 | B.N College, Patna University, Patna, India.
Skills:
- Programming Language: C, C++, Perl, Python,Shell script, SQL
- Web Technologies : LAMP, AJAX, CGI-PERL, JavaScript, PHP
- Markup Language: HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS
- Databases: MySQL, Oracle
- Bioinformatics Tools: BioPERL, Bioconductor, BLAST, Clustalw, IMPALA, HMMER, Phylip, Rasmol and Other Bioinformatics Web tools and Databases
- Operating System: Window, Linux, UNIX
- Statistical Tool: MatLab and R
Publications :
1. Gaurav Kumar and Shoba Ranganathan: Network analysis of human protein location; BMC Bioinformatics; 2010; 11(Suppl 7):S9[7]
2. K. Shameer, P. Nagarajan, K. Gaurav and R. Sowdhamini: 3PFDB – A database of Best Representative PSSM Profiles (BRPs) of Protein Families generated using a novel data mining approach; BioDataMining; 2009; 2(8)[8]
3. Kumar Gaurav, Nitin Gupta and R. Sowdhamini: FASSM: Enhanced Function Association in whole genome analysis using Sequence and Structural Motifs; In Silico Biol; 2005; 5(4) [9]
Book Chapters :
1. Gaurav Kumar and Shoba Ranganathan;Biological Data Integration using Network Models: Biological Knowledge Discovery Handbook: Preprocessing, Mining and Postprocessing of Biological Data; Edited by Mourad Elloumi and Albert Y. Zomaya; Wiley-Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons ); (In press)
2. Gaurav Kumar, Adrian P. Cootes and Shoba Ranganathan; Untangling Biological Networks Using Bioinformatics: Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology: Techniques, Approaches and Application; Edited by Mourad Elloumi and Albert Y. Zomaya; Wiley-Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons); ISBN:0470505192[10]
Fellowships and Awards:
- 10th Dec. 2010: HMRI Sponsored Best Student Poster Presentation, Biomarker Discovery Conference, Shola Bay, NSW, Australia.
- July - Oct. 2010: Macquarie University PGRF Travel Fellowship.
- 2008 - Jan 2012: iMQRES Fellowship .
- 2005 - 2006: Research Stipend, Supported by SFI (Science Foundation of Ireland).
- 2002 - 2005: MSc stipend, Supported by Welcome-Trust.
Research Interest:
- Systems Biology, Network Biology, Transcriptomics, Next-generation sequencing technologies
- "Subcellular localisation" (SCL) pattern of eukaryotic proteins in the absensce of signal peptide
- Studying protein-protein interaction and metabolic interaction networks to understand the SCL
- Biological network comparision
- Protein Sequence Analysis and classfication
- Machine learning
Presentations and Posters :
- Poster presentation at "Biomarker Discovery Conference-2010","Network Study of Human Protein Location", Dec 6-10, 2010, Shola Bay, NSW, Australia.
- Poster presentation at "InCOB-2009",Statistical Significance of Protein Interaction and Metabolic Data for SCL Prediction, September 9-11, 2009, Biopolis,Singapore.
- Oral presentation at "SYMBIO-2009","Understanding the subcellular localisation (SCL) of eukaryotic proteins ", September 7-8, 2009, Biopolis,Singapore.
- Poster presentation at "GIW-2008","Integration of Protein Interaction and Metabolic Data for Subcellular Localization Prediction", December 1-3, 2008, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
- Poster presentation at "Annual Research Talks","FASSM, specific signature motifs in protein families", January 18-20, 2008, NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore, India.
- Poster presentation at "International Workshop on Systems Biology 2006","EATDB: A researcher-managed web based Application", 17-19 July 2006, Hamilton Institute, Ireland.
- Poster presentation at " Indo-French Bioinformatics Meeting (IFBM-2006)","EATDB: Enzyme Analysis Tool and Database, 12-14 June 2006, NCBS-TIFR, India.
- Poster presentation at "An International Symposium on human origin and genetics", 17-19 Feb. 2005,NCBS-TIFR, India.
- Oral Presentation of my Master works at "The Student Symposium, APBC2005", 15-16 Jan 2005, Singapore.
- Poster presentation at "The Third Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference", 17-21 Jan, 2005, Singapore
Participation in Workshop:
- Winter School in Mathematics & Computational Biology ARC Centre of Excellence In Bioinformatics and IMB, Brisbane, Australia: July 4 - 8, 2011.
- Biomedical Research from Bench to Field: 1st Meeting of Indian and Max Planck Society Scientists: March 6 - 9, 2005.
- Molecules, Machines and Networks: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore: January 5-9th 2004.
- Cellular traffic: 28th Mahabaleshwar Seminar on Modern Biology: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai: 23rd Feb 2003.
Links
My Homepage[11]
Contact Details
F7B, Room.No:119, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109 Australia
Ph +61 2 9850 8304; Fax +61 2 9850 8313
Email: gaurav.kumar@mq.edu.au
