• Ph.D in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 
• Scientist at BISR Jaipur ( 2001 – 2009)

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• Structure Based Adaptive Evolution
• Genome and Proteome Analysis

SESSION CHAIR

• Chair a Session at an International Conference: :International Conference on Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture, Environment and Health” (BSAEH-2021), 4-8 April 2021, Organized by MNIT, Jaipur and Biotech Research Society, India.
• Awarded with merit scholarship at JNU, New Delhi during Advanced (PG) Diploma by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.

INVITED SPEAKERS/ TALKS

International conference

• Pooran Singh Solanki, PIASP: A tool to determine structurally conserved atomic interactions in protein-ligand Complexes, Indian Conference on Bioinformatics 2019 (Inbix’19), February 22-23, 2019, HMV College, Jalandhar, India,(Invited Talk).

National Conference

•  PS Solanki, Protein-Ligand Interactions, Bioinfo-CADD-2019, BLal Institute of Biotechnology, Malviya Nagar, Jaipur, 28 Feb 2019. (Invited Talk)
•  PS Solanki Bioinformatics, “Alignment and Modeling Strategies”, National Conference on “Microbiology in services of Mankind” at Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, Gujarat; 6 Sep 2019 (Invited Talk).

Selected Publications

1. Sinoliya Priyanka, Solanki Singh Pooran, Piplani Sakshi, Kumar Niraj Ravi Ranjan*, Sharma Vinay, Anti-microbial Peptides against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Promising Therapeutics, Current Protein & Peptide Science 2023; 24(2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389203724666221216115850 

2. Chaturvedi, P., Saxena, V. L., Raina, V., Solanki, P. S., & Chaturvedi, A. (2022). Can Spices Cure Flu? A Multiple targets based Bioinformatics analysis. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology, 15(11), 4881-4886. https://doi.org/10.52711/0974-360X.2022.00820

3. Rajpurohit, S., Solanki, P. S., Mayekar, H., Arya, H., Aradhya, R., Suravajhala, P., & Loeschcke, V. (2022). Tropical high-altitude insects show limited capacity to handle high temperatures. BioRxiv. September 13, 2022. (Preprint  Submitted). DOI -  https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.10.507406

4. Sampat Nehra, Raj Kumar Gothwal, Siddhant Dhingra, Alok Kumar Varshney, Pooran Singh Solanki, Poonam Meena, P. C. Trivedi & P. Ghosh (2022). Mechanism of Antagonism: Hyperparasitism and Antibiosis. In: Kumar, A. (eds) Microbial Biocontrol: Sustainable Agriculture and Phytopathogen Management. Publisher:Springer, Cham. PP 257–277.   Print ISBN -  978-3-030-87511-4 
   https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87512-1_11 

5. Laha Anubhab, Prasad Anchita, Baj Kalash, Shukla Nidhi, Solanki Singh Pooran, Bandopadhyay Rajib, Nallapeta Sivaramaiah, Medicherla Mohan Krishna*, Suravajhala Prashanth*, Nigam Kumar Vinod*, Laccases as Gold Standard Enzymes for Biotechnology, Current Biotechnology 2022; 11(3)  .  https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2211550111666220826102014 

6. Monisha Singhal; Pragya Chaturvedi; R.K. Gothwal; M.K. Mohan; P.S. Solanki (2021). Comparative study of synonymous codon usage in bacteria growing at extreme temperatures, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2021 Vol.17 No.1, pp.53 - 68, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBRA.2021.113966 
7. Bharti Malhotra, Veenu Gupta, Pratibha Sharma, Ruchi Singh, Himanshu Sharma, Madhavi Vyas, RP Mathur, VK Mathur, Deepa Meena, Hemant Malhotra, Pragya D. Yadav, Gajanan Sapkal, Ullas PT, Gururaj Rao Deshpande, Rashmi Gunjikar, Heena Shaman, Devendra T Mourya, Nivedita Gupta, Sujit Singh, P Ravindran, Jitender Tiwari, Dimpal A. Nyayanit, Neeraj Kumar, Sameer Phalke, Anup Chugani, Sudhir Bhandari, Pooran Singh Solanki , Prashanth Suravajhala, Manila Salaria (2020). “Clinico-epidemiological and genomic profile of first Zika Virus outbreak in India at Jaipur city of Rajasthan state”, Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020, Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages 1920-1926. ISSN 1876-0341, DOI - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.10.006. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.10.006 
8. Sampat Nehra, Raj Kumar Gothwal, Alok Kumar Varshney, Pooran Singh Solanki, Shivani Chandra, Poonam Meena, P.C. Trivedi, P. Ghosh (2021)."Biomanagement of Fusarium spp. associated with pulse crops, Editor(s): Ajay Kumar, Samir Droby, Food Security and Plant Disease Management, Elsevier Publisher, 2021, Chapter 21, Pages 423-452. ISSN 9780128218433, doi - https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821843-3.00010-6 
9. Sampat Nehra, Raj Kumar Gothwal, Alok Kumar Varshney, Pooran Singh Solanki, Shivani Chandra, Poonam Meena, P.C.Trivedi, P.Ghosh (2021). "Bio-management of Fusarium spp. associated with oil crops", Editor(s): Vijay Kumar Sharma, Maulin P.Shah, Shobhika Parmar and Ajay Kumar, Fungi Bio-Prospects in Sustainable Agriculture, Environment and Nano-Technology, Elsevier Publisher, Volumw: 1: Chapter 19, Pages 475-505. ISSN: 978-0-12-821394-0, doi- https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821394-0.00020-2 
10. Upadhyayula R.S., Solanki P.S., Suravajhala P., Medicherla K.M. (2019) Bioinformatics Tools for Microbial Diversity Analysis. In: Satyanarayana T., Johri B., Das S. (eds) Microbial Diversity in Ecosystem Sustainability and Biotechnological Applications. Springer Nature, Singapore, Vol-I, 2019, pp 23-47 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8315-1_2 
11. Pradeep Tiwari, Renuka Suravajhala, Sonal Gupta, Pragya Chaturvedi, Sandeep Kumar Mathur, Pooran Singh Solanki and Babita Malik (2019). A Molecular Docking and Pharmacokinetic Prediction of Thiazolidine-2, 4-dione Derivatives: Toward Novel Therapeutic Targets for Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus, International Journal for Computational Biology, Vol.8, No.1, Oct 2019, pp. 02-08 ISSN: 2278-8115, DOI: https://doi.org/10.34040/IJCB.8.1.2019.01   
12. Chaturvedi,P.,Raina,V.,Solanki,P.S.,Saxena,V.L.,(2019). In silico Prediction of Anti-plasmodial Activity of Spices: Targeting Malarial Proteases, 13(8), KC01-KC06.DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2019/34534.13035  ISSN: 0973-709X
13. Yadav, H, Gothwal, R K, Solanki, P S, Nehra, S, Sinha-roy, S, Ghosh, P (2014) Isolation and Characterization of Thermo-tolerant Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria From a Phosphate Mine and Their Rock Phosphate Solubilizing Abilities,Geomicrobiology Journal, vol.32 No. 6, 475-481 (2014). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2014.943856 
14. S. Lalwani, M. Mohan, P. Solanki, S. Singhal, S. Mathur and E. Spedicato, "An Application of the ABS Algorithm for Modeling Multiple Regression on Massive Data, Predicting the Most Influencing Factors," Applied Mathematics, Vol. 4 No. 6, 2013, pp. 907-913. ( 2013) doi: 10.4236/am.2013.46126.
15. P. S. Solanki, M. Krishna Mohan, P. Ghosh and S. L. Kothari. "Analysis of structurally conserved atomic interactions in structural homologs of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide binding dehydrogenases." Journal of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research 4, no. 3 (2012): 28-33.
16. Amit N, OP Jangir, PS Solanki, Vijay S, M Krishnamohan (2008) In Silico and In Vivo Study of Lens Regeneration Under the Influence of Retinoid. J Proteomics Bioinform 1: 104-108. doi:10.4172/jpb.1000016

Conference Posters 

• Database of Biochemical Tests of Pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae Family, (2022)  PS Solanki, RK Gothwal, Alok Varshney, Sampat Nehra and P Ghosh, during conference on “Smart and Sustainable Bioprocessing through Gene and Process Scale Collaboration” organized by Biological Engineering Society (4th  Annual Meeting) at Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal (Jointly organized with IIT Kharagpur), BESCON-22, 4-6 Nov 2022.

1. ISCB – International Society of Computational Biology (Member)
2. APBionet – Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (Life Member)
3. Bioclues – Bioinforatics Society ( Life Member)
4. APbians – Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Interaction & Networking Society (Member)
5. BESI – Biological Engineering Society (Founder Member)
6. MSI – Mycological Society of India (Life Member)

• Principal Investigator: 
  • Rapid multiplex PCR based detection of water borne human bacterial pathogens (Sponsoring Agency – Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Rajasthan).
• Co-Coordinator:
  • Design and Innovation Centre, Spoke at BISR ( Sponsored by – MHRD, Govt of India).

• BESI – Biological Engineering Society (Editorial Board Member)