Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Dr. Pooran Singh Solanki
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Ph.D. 		Contact Address
Permanent Address 4404, Southern Heights, UDB Apartments, Sector 22, Pratap Nagar, Jaipur
Local Address Department of Bioengineering and Biotechnology, BIT Mesra, Jaipur-Campus, 27, Malviya Industrial Area, Jaipur-302017
Phone (Office) +91-0141-2385094 ext 324
Phone Residence 9928365838
Email Id pooransingh@bitmesra.ac.in
Joined Institute on : 11-Jun-2001
  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 15 Years

Research : 23 Years

Individual: 23 Years
  Professional Background
  • Ph.D in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2011)
  • Scientist at BISR Jaipur ( 2001 – 2009)
  • Sr Scientist (2009 – continue ) 
  • Assistant Professor, BIT ( Aug 2009 to continue)

 

 
  Research Areas
 

 

Research Area & Interest 

  • Structural Bioinformatics: Structure Based Adaptive Evolution 

  • Genome, Proteome and Metagenome Analysis

  • Molecular based detection of pathogens 

  • Health informatics and DNA & Sensor based health monitoring  

 
  Award and Honours
 

Research Recognition

  • Honoured by Elsevier Publishing group: Appreciation certificate for my research contribution in solving the ZIKA outbreak in Rajasthan during 2021 (which comes under United Nations Global social challenges).        

Session Chair 

  • Chaired a Session during  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. 

  • Chaired a Session during Indian Conference on Bioinformatics, Inbox-2017, organized by BISR, Jaipur,  7th to 9th November 2017. 

National Advisory Committee Member (2018)

  • Member of National Advisory Committee in the National Seminar on “Bioscience: Developing the Next Generation”, organized by Department of Microbiology, Sankalchand Patel University, Visngar, Gujarat, 11-12 January 2018.

Joint organizing Secretary in International Conference (2017)

  • INBIX’17: Organized an International Conference in Bioinformatics during 7th - 9th November 2017 as Joint organizing Secretary, entitled as “Indian Conference on Bioinformatics”, (Inbox-2017). Organized by Bioinformatics Centre, BISR, Jaipur sponsored by DBT, GOI,( International Supported by: International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet). Invited a Noble Laureate Prof Temple Smith, USA.

  • BTISnet Meet 2005: Organized an Annual Biotechnology Information System Network(BTISnet) annual meet during 2-4 Feb 2005, sponsored by DBT, Govt of India. 

Merit Scholarship (2000)

  • Awarded with a merit fellowship for being among the top selected candidates in the  Advanced Bioinformatics Diploma Course at Jawaharlal Nehru University by Department  of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.

INVITED SPEAKERS/ TALKS

National / International conference symposium

  1. Invited talk on “PERL in Bioinformatics” during a workshop onInvited talk on “Multiple Sequence Alignment ”, during Faculty Development Programme on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare” jointly organized by the Department of Bioengineering and Electronics & Communication Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi during 27th - 31st July, 2020, sponsored by TEQIP III.

  2. Invited talk on “Bioinformatics: Protein-Ligand Interactions” during International Seminar on Bioinformatics in Healthcare, 25th Jan 2020, School of life science, JNU, Jaipur.

  3. Invited talk on  “Alignment and Modeling Strategies”, during National Conference on “Microbiology in services of Mankind” at Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, Gujarat; 6 Sep 2019 

  4. Invited talk on “Protein-Ligand Interactions”, during Bioinfo-CADD-2019, BLal Institute of Biotechnology, Malviya Nagar, Jaipur, 28 Feb 2019. 

  5. Invited talk on “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).

  6. Invited Expert talk on “Bio-computing with PERL“ during a workshop on “Advancements in PERL Language”, sponsored by TEQIP-III, organized by RTU, Kota at Modi Institute of Technology, Kota on 6 Apr 2018. 

  7. Invited talk on “Bioinformatics fundamentals” during National seminar on thrust area of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, organized by Maharaja Vinayak Global University, Jaipur Institute of Biotechnology held on 22-24 Feb 2016.

  8. Invited talk on “MSA and Phylogenetics” during Workshop on “Emerging Techniques in Bioinformatics and Its Application”, organized by Department of Bio-Engineering, BIT Mesra, Jharkhand, India held on Nov 30 - Dec 04, 2015.

  9. Invited talk “Bioinformatics” during National Workshop on Biomedical Instruments and Technologies (NWBIT-2015), organized by Department of Zoology, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. 13-14 March 2015.

  10. Invited talk on “Bioinformatics Applications”, during National workshop on Applications of Computational Tools in Medicine & Biology (NWMB 2015), 24 January 2015, organized by Department of Zoology, CAS, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur on Nov 30 - Dec 04, 2015.

  11. Invited talk on “Bioinformatics Trends” during the symposium on “Trends in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology” held on 2-3 August 2014 at Department of Biotechnology, ML Sukhadia University, Udaipur. 

  12. Invited talk on “Protein Ligand Interactions” during National Workshop on Bioinformatics entitled “In Silico Genome and Proteome Analysis” held from 8-10 March 2014 at Department of Bioscience, Banasthali University .

  13. Invited talk on “Bioinformatics Analysis for Core Biologist” during the “Teacher Training Programme on Bioinformatics” held on 24 Feb 2014, organized at Modi Institute of Technology & Management, Kota and Conducted by The Society for Environment & Development, Delhi , sponsored by DBT, GOI.

  14. Invited talk on “Introduction to Bioinformatics” during the seminar on “Current Trends in Bioinformatics” held on 17 October 2012 at Department of Biotechnology, ML Sukhadia University, Udaipur.

  15. Invited talk on “Bioinformatics Applications” during seminar on “Bioinformatics”, at Department of Bioscience College of Arts, Science & Humanities, Mody University of Science & Technology, Lakshmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan, 27-28 Feb 2010. 

  16. Invited talk on  “Sequence Alignment Strategies”, during Workshop on “Current Trends in Bioinformatics” , CTB06, jointly organized by BIT Mesra, Kolkata Extension Centre and Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter, June 30 - July 1, 2006.

 

 

Participation in Conference/ Symposium/ Workshop

  1. Participated in Workshop on “Parasite Bioinformatics” organized by Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, 28-31 January 2002, funded by DBT, GOI.

  2. Participated in the National workshop on “Analysis and Management of Microarray Data”, organized by IMTECH, Chandigarh, 27-29 October 2003, funded by DBT, GOI.

  3. Participated in National Symposium on “Science and Technology for Desert Development”, organized by The National Academy of Sciences, India, 2-4 December 2004, BISR, Jaipur.

  4. Participated in National workshop on “Machine Learning Techniques in Functional Proteomics' ', organized by Bioinformatics Centre, IMTECH, Chandigarh, 18-21 Oct 2005. 

  5. Participated in National Symposium on Bioinformatics, organized by BIC, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, 1-2 February 2006, funded by DBT, GOI. (Paper present).

  6. Participated in the Symposium on “Advances in Structural Biology & Structure Prediction” organized by CCMB Hyderabad, 11 ADNAT Convention, 23-25 February 2007. 

  7. Participated in the International Conference on Open Source for Computer Aided Drug Discovery (OSCADD), organized by IMTECH, Chandigarh, 22-26 March 2009.

  8. Participated in 25th Annual BTISnet Meeting, sponsored by DBT, GOI, organized by National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, 27-28 Feb 2014.

  9. Participated in XXVIth BTISnet Annual Conference held on 3-4 Feb 2015 at Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, funded by DBT, GOI.

  10. Participated in the workshop on “Ion Chromatography for Water & Environment” held on 15th June 2015, at BISR, Jaipur, Sponsored by Thermo Scientific. 

  11. Participated in the National Workshop on “PATINFORMATICS for Bioinformatics”, organized by BIF, Kumaun University, Bhimtal, held on 5 March 2016.

  12. Participated in XXVII BTISnet Annual Meet held on 3-4 March 2016  at  BIF, Department of Biotechnology, Kumaun University, Bhimtal, funded by DBT, GOI.

  13. Participated in one day workshop on “ISRO’s Geo-portals for developmental planning and e-governance” organized by RRSC-W/NRSC(ISRO), CAZRI (ICAR), SRSAC(DST)-Jodhpur at BISR Jaipur on 12 April 2016.

  14. Participated in 28th BTISnet Annual Meet at TATA Memorial Centre, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Mumbai on 3-4 Feb 2017.

  15. Participated in INAE Youth Conclave-2017, by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), organized by BISR, Jaipur during 11-12 August 2017.

  16. Participated in Symposium on “Emerging Trends in Computational Biology” organized by School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, JNU, New Delhi. 16-17 Dec 2017.

  17. Participated in conference on “2018 NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT), organized by SciGenome Research Foundation (SGRF), during 30 Sep - 2nd Oct 2018  at Jaipur, Rajasthan.

  18. Participated in a two days workshop on “Bioprinting Technology” during 17-18 Aug 2022, conducted by Next Big Lab Innovations, Bangalore at BISR, Jaipur.

  19. Participated in a workshop on “Earth Observations for Climate Services”, organized by National Information System for Climate and Environment Studies(NICES), conducted at BISR, Jaipur on 12 October 2023. 

  20. Participated in fourth All India DIC meet at IIT Hyderabad, 2-3 May 2024.
  Publications
 

Selected Publications

  1. Sinoliya, Priyanka, Solanki, Pooran Singh, Niraj,  Kumar   Ravi Ranjan, Sharma ,  Vinay,  De novo Designing of the Antimicrobial Peptide as a Curative Agent for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus through a Computational Approach,Recent Advances in Anti-Infective Drug Discovery, volume 19, issue , pages 1-24, May 2024. ISSN: 2772-4344/2772-4352. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0127724344297458240415113008 . 
  2. Sinoliya Priyanka, Solanki Singh Pooran, Niraj Kumar Ravi Ranjan and Sharma Vinay*, Computational Study of Antimicrobial Peptides for Promising Therapeutic Applications Against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, volume 20, issue, pages 1-14, year 2024, issn 1573-4099/1875-6697. https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0115734099285473240101111303 (Published - 12 Jan 2024).
  3. Sampat Nehra, Raj Kumar Gothwal, Aruna N. C. Shekhar, Parul Sinha, Erica Zinnia Nehra, Alok Kumar Varshney, Pooran Singh Solanki, Purnendu Ghosh, Understanding Post-translational Protein Modification through Proteomics Tools, Chapter 17, PP: 265-290, Book:Plant Proteomics, 1st Ed.,  Edited By: Aryadeep Roychoudhury, eBook ISBN: 9781003350453, CRC Press,  (3 June 2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/b23255 . 
  4. 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 
  5. Sampat Nehra, Raj Kumar Gothwal ,Alok Kumar Varshney, Pooran Singh Solanki, Poonam Meena, P. C. Trivedi & P. Ghosh, Alleviation of salinity stress by microbes, Chap 9, PP : 145 -162 , Book:Industrial Applications of Soil Microbes, Vol-2, Edited by: Shampi Jain, Ashutosh Gupta and Neeraj Verma. ISSN: 2811-0765, E-ISSN:2811-0773, Published by Bentham books, (Published Dec 2023) DOI - https://doi.org/10.2174/9789815050264123020012 . 

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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 

  9. 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 

  10. 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 
  11. 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 
  12. 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 
  13. 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 
  14. 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 
  15. 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   
  16. 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
  17. 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 
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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  

  1. Presented a poster on “Design of multi-epitope vaccine lead against dreadful Dengue virus using computational approach” during 4th All India DIC Meet at IIT Hyderabad held on 2-3 May2024. ( Manvi Katiyar , Manisha Pritam , RK Gothwal, Sampat Nehra , AK Varshney, MK Mohan, P. Ghosh and PS Solanki* ).  

  2. Presented poster on “Database of Biochemical Tests of Pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae Family” during BESCON-22, organized by BESI at BOSE Institute during 4-6 Nov 2022 .

  3. Presented poster on “Development of a redox dye based novel and reliable method for detecting hydrocarbon utilizing bacteria directly from the soil samples” during BESCON-22, organized by BESI at BOSE Institute during 4-6 Nov 2022.

  4. Presented poster on “An efficient metagenomic DNA extraction method from Thar Desert soils for exploring petroleum hydrocarbon utilizing bacterial diversity ” during BESCON-22, organized by BESI at BOSE Institute during 4-6 Nov 2022.

  5.  Presented poster on “Database of Specific Primers and probes of water pathogens” during 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2018) organized by SCIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 26-28 September 2018.

  6. Presented poster on “Activities and Progress in Bioinformatics at BTIS Sub-DIC, BISR” during  XXIX BTISnet Annual Meet organized at Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, 3-4 February,2018.

  1.  Presented poster on “Utilization of Sea food waste for chitinase production by Brevibacillus Formusas BSIR-1 and Paenibacillus sp. Bisr-047” during National conference of Biological Engineering Society on biological engineering in 21st century, BESCON 2017, organized by NSIT, New Delhi, September 8-9, 2017.  

  2. Presented poster on “Database of Human Fungal Pathogens related to food and waterborne diseases”, during National Conference on Fungal Biotechnology (NCFB-2016) organized by Mycological Society of India (MSI), at BISR, Jaipur, held on 16-18 November 2016.  

  3. Presented poster on “A hyper-thermostable chitinase from Paenibacillus sp. BISR-047: Its characterization and biocontrol potential” during 55th Annual Conference of AMI, held on 12-14 November 2014, at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.

  4. Presented poster on “Isolation and characterization of thermotolerant bacterial strains from Jhamarkotra phosphate mines producing alkaline phosphatase” during 55th Annual Conference of AMI, held on 12-14 November 2014, at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.

  5. Presented poster on “Chitinase production from Paenibacillus sp. BISR-047 utilizing seafood waste as substrate under solid-state fermentation” during National conference on “Bioprocess Technology” held on September 13th , 2014 at JNU, Jaipur , Rajasthan. 

  6. Presented poster on “Chitinase Production and Biocontrol potential of a newly isolated chitinolytic bacterium Brevibacillus Formosus BISR-1” during  54th Annual Conference of AMI held on 17-20 November 2013 at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak.

  7. Presented a poster on “Genotyping of antifungal compounds producing plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, Pseudomonas fluorescens” during National conference on “Emerging Trend in Nanobiotechnology, held on 29-30 November 2013, at SLS, JNU, Jaipur, Rajasthan.

  8. Presented poster on “Antifungal activity of chitinolytic bacterial strain and their potential for biocontrol of important fungal phytopathogens of cumin” during 53rd Annual conference of AMI, held on 22-25 November 2012 at KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar Odisha . 

  9.  Presented poster on “Optimization of culture conditions for chitinase production by Paenibacillus sp. BISR-047 '' during 53rd Annual conference of AMI-12, held on 22-25 November 2012 at KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar Odisha.

  10. Presented poster on “Comparative analysis of SSEs in extremophiles using CASSP”, during National Symposium on “Bioinformatics: Challenges in the post genomics era”, sponsored by DBT, GOI, organized by BIC, University of Jammu, 2 Feb 2012.   

  11. Presented poster on “Codon Bias Analysis of Extremophilic Bacteria”, during 51st Annual conference of AMI-2010, organized at BIT , Mesra, Jharkhand  . 

  12. An Identification of Structurally Conserved Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions in the active site of NAD binding proteins. AIBA 2001: Conference on Biotechnology-the Science & the Business, 28-30 September 2001, IIT, Delhi. 

 
  Member of Professional Bodies
 
  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)
  Current Sponsored Projects
 

Research Projects

Ongoing Sponsored Projects (Extramural funding)

  • Design Innovation Centre, Spoke to the Hub DIC, CCT, UOR , Jaipur, Sponsored by Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Govt of India,(Total Grant: 1 Crore). Role: PI (Received 68 Lakhs). 

  • Registry of Genetic Polymorphisms associated with Hormonal and Metabolic Disorders in Asian indian. Sponsoring Agency: Metabolism and Molecular Research Society, India   (Period: July 2022 to June 2025) (Total Grant: 22 Lakhs). 

Ongoing In-House Projects 

  • Development of Database of Biochemical Tests of Pathogenic Microbes for their rapid detection and comparative analysis.  

  • NGS data analysis of Allele frequencies the genome of Drosophila melanogaster to study the thermal effect on the evolution of DNA and its adaptability.

  • Immuno-informatics Approach for Designing the Multi-epitope Vaccine Against Dengue Viruses (Under DIC sponsorship) . 

  • Virtual Screening and scaffold hopping of anti-inflammatory compounds. 

  • Exploring the Potency of Existing Drugs against Dengue Virus Using Bioinformatics Approach .   

Completed Sponsored Research Projects 

  • A Rapid Multiplex PCR based detection of waterborne human bacterial pathogens Agency: DST, Govt of Rajasthan, Cost: 12.12 Lakhs, Period 3 Years. (2017 - 2020).

  • Biotechnology Information System, Sub-Distributed Informatics Centre (BTIS SubDIC) Project, Sponsored By Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India.  ( 2002 - 2007, 2007 - 2012, 2012 - 2017, 2017 - Mar 2020).

  • Under BTIS SubDIC, Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India 

    • DOMAP: Database of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants of Rajasthan 

    • BISR-Primer: An Interactive Primer Designing Tool 

    • DISPROLIC: Database of Interaction Specificity in Protein Ligand Complex. 

    • PIASP: Protein Interaction Analyzer & Structure Parser. 

    • CRAT: Codon Restriction Analytical Tool 

  Text and Reference Books
 

Books and Chapters  

  1. Understanding Post-translational Protein Modification through Proteomics Tools, Chapter 17, PP: 265-290, Book:Plant Proteomics, 1st Ed.,  Edited By: Aryadeep Roychoudhury, eBook ISBN: 9781003350453, CRC Press,  (3 June 2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/b23255, (Co-authored)

  2. Alleviation of salinity stress by microbes, Chap 9, PP : 145 -162, (Dec 2023) Book:Industrial Applications of Soil Microbes, Vol-2, Edited by: Shampi Jain, Ashutosh Gupta and Neeraj Verma, Publisher: Bentham Books, ISSN: 2811-0765, E-ISSN:2811-0773. DOI - https://doi.org/10.2174/9789815050264123020012. (Co-authored)

  3. Mechanism of Antagonism: Hyperparasitism and Antibiosis. In: Kumar, A. (eds) Microbial Biocontrol: Sustainable Agriculture and Phytopathogen Management. Publisher:Springer, Cham. PP 257–277, 2022.   Print ISBN -  978-3-030-87511-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87512-1_11 . (Co-authored)

  4. 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 . (Co-authored) 

  5. 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, Volume: 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 .  (Co-authored)

  6. Bio-management of Fusarium spp. associated with fruit crops, Editor(s): Vijay Kumar Sharma, Maulin P. Shah, Shobhika Parmar, Ajay Kumar,Fungi Bio-Prospects in Sustainable Agriculture, Environment and Nano-Technology, Academic Press,2021,Pages 475-505, ISBN 9780128213940, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821394-0.00019-6 . (Co-authored)

  7. 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  , Print ISBN: 978-981-13-8314-4, Online ISBN: 978-981-13-8315-1 . (Co-authored) Upadhyayula R.S., Solanki P.S., Suravajhala P., Medicherla K.M. (2019)
  Member, Editorial Board
 
  • BESI – Biological Engineering Society (Editorial Board Member) 

Member of Board of Studies of  Universities/Institution

  • Member of Board of Studies in Bioinformatics, MDS University, Ajmer .

  • Member of Board of Studies in Bioinformatics, Jaipur National University, Jaipur .

  • Member of Board of Studies in Bioinformatics, Amity University, Rajasthan.