National Network for Mathematical and (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Computation Indian Institute of Science Cognition 1 Aditya Murthy [email protected] Bangalore Neurophysiology Behaviour

JNCASR Life-history evolution; adaptation to crowding; metapopulation 2 Amitabh Joshi [email protected] Bangalore dynamics and stability; genotype-phenotype mapping

Hans Raj College, Delhi University 3 Arvind Yadav [email protected] New Delhi

mathematical modelling Bifurcation, 4 Arvind Kumar Mishra [email protected] Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi Spatial modelling Matlab coding

Systems Biology Biological Networks CR RAO AIMSCS 5 Alok Srivastava [email protected] Machine learning Gachibowli, Hyderabad Data mining Application development

Statistical physics, Biophysics 6 Ambarish Kunwar [email protected] IIT Bombay Computer simulation, Molecular Motors Cytoskeleton Filaments

Mobile Communication KIIT University Electromagnetic Radiation 7 Amlan Datta [email protected] Bhubaneswar,Odisha Antenna Numerical techniques in Electromagnetics

Nonlinear Dynamics 8 Anandamohan Ghosh [email protected] IISER Kolkata Statistical Physics Mathematical Biology

Structural analysis of biological networks 9 Anirban Banerjee [email protected] IISER, Kolkata Graphs and networks

Stochasticity in Biological Systems S N Bose National Centre for 10 Anita Mehta [email protected] Synaptic plasticity and memory Basic Sciences, Kolkata Neural networks National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Dynamical systems University of Calcutta Stability analysis 11 Ansuman Lahiri [email protected] Kolkata Cellular automata Morphogenesis

National Brain Research Centre 12 Arpan Bannerjee [email protected] Haryana

Biomolecular Interactions & Energetic Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra Molecular Recognition in biomolecular complex 13 Ashoke Sharon [email protected] Ranchi Biomolecular Simulation Drug Resistance

Bacterial genomics Aswin Sai Narain Gene expression 14 [email protected] NCBS Seshasayee Computational biology

15 Aurnab Ghose [email protected] IISER, Pune

Sodium channels Bannari Amman Institute of Technolgy Conotoxins, scorpion toxin homology modeling 16 B A Gowri Shankar [email protected] Sathyamangalam, Erode, Tamilnadu Docking, potential of mean force Binding free energy

Bioinformatics Indian Institute of Information Technology 17 B S Sanjeev [email protected] Parallel computing IIITA, Jhalwa, Allahabad Cloud computing

Computational-Biomechanics, Cardio-Vascular-Flows BioMedical-Imaging, Cardiac-Electric-Activity 18 B V Ratish Kumar [email protected] IIT Kanpur Bio-Flows, Computational-Nuerology Computational-Brain-Science

Delhi Technological University 19 Bansi Das Malhotra [email protected] New Delhi National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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20 Chaitanya Athale [email protected] IISER Pune

21 Debashish Chowdhury [email protected] IIT Kanpur

Prediction of structure/function of proteins Molecular Dynamics Simulations 22 Debasisa Mohanty [email protected] National Institute of Immunology Protein-Protein Interaction network Structure & function of non coding RNA

Multi-scale Simulations Membrane Biophysics 23 Durba Sengupta [email protected] NCL, Pune Receptor Association Reaction-Diffusion Models

Indian Institute of Science Protein dynamics, Protein function 24 Debnath Pal [email protected] Bangalore analysis, Bio-Algorithms

Computational neuroscience Neuro Informatics Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology 25 Deepak Mishra [email protected] Signal Processing Trivandrum Machine learning Kerala Bio inspired computing

26 Deepayan Sarkar [email protected] ISI, Delhi

Sequence Analysis high throughput sequencing 28 Farhat Habib [email protected] IISER Pune genotype-phenotype correlation phylogeny inference

Acharya Narendra Dev College Computational Biology 29 Gagan Dhawan [email protected] University of Delhi Chemoinformatics New Delhi In Silico Drug Discovery National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Systems Biology Graph theory 30 Ganesh A Viswanathan [email protected] IIT Bombay Stochastic dynamics Biological signaling networks Nonlinear dynamics

31 Ganesh Bagler [email protected] IIT Jodhpur Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Complex Networks

Complex networks Synchronization in coupled systems 32 G Ambika [email protected] IISER, Pune Nonlinear dynamics Modelling biological systems Indian Institute of Science 33 G K Ananthasuresh [email protected] Inverse problems in elasticity, protein design, biomechanics Bangalore Acharya Narendra Dev College 34 Gagan Dhawan [email protected] University of Delhi New Delhi

Indian Institute of Science Computational neuroscience 35 Govindan Rangarajan [email protected] Bangalore Time series analysis Nonlinear dynamics

Bengal Engineering and Science 36 Guruprasad Samanta [email protected] Mathematical Modelling of Ecological and Epidemiological Systems University, Shibpur

37 Indranil Mukhopadhyay [email protected] Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Statistical genetics, Statistical genomics, computational biology

Multi-scale models, Network analysis 38 K V Venkatesh [email protected] IIT Bombay Metabolism Disease modeling

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Jaypee Institute of Information Technology 39 Kamal Rawal [email protected] Network Biology Noida Drug Targets Clinical Research

Electrophysiology Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences Neuorscience 40 Joby Joseph [email protected] University of Hyderabad Computational modeling Instrumentation

Mathematical models in ecology, 41 Joydev Chattopadhya [email protected] ISI Kolkata epidemiology, eco-epidemiology, ODE, PDE National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Diffuse Optical Tomography Photoacoustic Tomography Indian Institute of Science 42 K Rajan [email protected] Dosimetry Bangalore Light transport through a tissue, Monte Carlo simulation studies, and transmission and backscattering of polarized light through a tissue material

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida 43 Kamal Rawal [email protected] Uttar Pradesh

Computational systems biology Modelling biological networks 44 Karthik Raman [email protected] IIT Madras Metabolic network modelling Metabolic engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Evolutionary Biology 45 Kavita Jain [email protected] Research Probability theory Bangalore Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

Computational genomics 46 Kiran Kondabagil [email protected] IIT Bombay Evolutionary Biology Viral genome compaction and packaging Lie algebras Genetic coding 47 Kishor Chandra Pati [email protected] National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Biological process control Algebraic method Cognitive Science Computational Neuroscience 48 Koel Das [email protected] IISER Kolkata Machine Learning Techniques High Dimensional Data Analysis Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services Marine ecosystem modelling 49 Kunal Chakraborty [email protected] (INCOIS) Bioeconomic modelling Hyderabad.

Protein Architectures Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology(CCMB) Protein Modeling 50 Kunchur Guruprasad [email protected] Hyderabad Protein Function Protein Networks

Computational biology, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Tezpur Central University Protein Aggregation, Neurodegenerative diseases, Dendrimers, 51 M Venkata Satish Kumar [email protected] Tezpur Molecular Dynamics Simulation of biomolecules, Design of Nano-materials for targeted drug delivery National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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52 Milind G Watve [email protected] IISER Pune

53 Mukhtar Ahmad Khanday [email protected] University of Kashmir

Population dynamics, delay and 54 Muslim Malik [email protected] IIT Mandi functional differential equations arising in mathematical biology, controllability of differential equations

Pattern formation Cross-diffusion 55 Malay Banerjee [email protected] IIT Kanpur Delay-diffusion Noise-induced dynamics

Mathematical Ecology Mathematical Epidemiology University of Lucknow 56 Manju Agarwal [email protected] Modelling Air pollution Lucknow Flow through porous media Biomechanics

Epidemiological modeling University of Pune 57 Mohan M Kale [email protected] Bio-computing, Stochastic analysis of genomic data Pune Algorithm development of geno and sero typing of the organism

Computational biology 58 Mukund Thattai [email protected] NCBS Cell biology

Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) Molecular Modeling and Drug Designing 59 Naidu Subbarao [email protected] New Delhi (Malaria, Tuberculosis and Cancer)

Indian Institute of Science HIV infection; reaction and signalling networks; evolutionary theory; drug pharmacokinetics and 60 Narendra M Dixit [email protected] Bangalore treatment optimization

61 Partha Sharathi Dutta [email protected] IIT Ropar

C.R.Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics 62 P Manimaran [email protected] Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS) Network Biology,Time Series Analysis,Wavelet Transform University of Hyderabad Campus Hyderabad National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Shiv Nadar University 63 Pawan K Dhar [email protected] Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology and Non-coding DNA Uttar Pradesh

Indian Institute of Science 64 Prabal K Maiti [email protected] Bangalore

University of Allahabad 65 Pramod Katara [email protected] Allahabad

66 Pranay Goel [email protected] IISER Pune

Mathematical Epidemiology Mathematical Ecology 67 Prashant Kumar Srivastava [email protected] Indian Institute of Technology Patna Stability and Bifurcation analysis HIV models: in vivo

Biofluiddynamics prashantakumar.mandal@ 68 Prashanta Kumar Mandal Visva-Bharathi Drug transport from drug eluting stent visva-bharati.ac.in Population Biology

69 Priti Kumar Roy [email protected] Jadavpur University

Biological Data Mining, Big data analytics, Machine Learning, IIIT Allahabad 70 Pritish Kumar Varadwaj [email protected] Molecular Dyanamic simulation, Mathematical modelling and Allahabad Cheminformatics.

Drug-targets University of Allahabad 71 Promod Katara [email protected] Pharmacogenomics Allahabad Transcriptomics

Inverse Problems Indian Institute of Science Medical Imaging 72 R M Vasu [email protected] Bangalore Diffuse Optical Tomography Quantitative Flow Diagnosis

73 R K Brojen Singh [email protected] JNU National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Reaction -diffusion modelling and pattern formations 74 Ranjit Upadhyay [email protected] Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad Dynamical diseases and disease dynamics Epidemiological modeling

Biochemical Pathway Analysis Immunoinformatics 75 Rajat K De [email protected] Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Computational Systems Biology Computational Biology Bioinformatics

76 Ranjit Upadhyay [email protected] Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad

77 Ranjith Padinhateeri [email protected] IIT Bombay

biological adhesion, cell orientation, actin dynamics, cell migration, 78 Rumi De [email protected] IISER, Kolkata wound healing, cellular self-assembly and pattern formation

Time series, Data analysis 79 Sarita Azad [email protected] IIT Mandi Mathematical modeling: applications in climate and epidemiology

Biofluid dynamics, swimming of micro-organisms 80 Shaktipada Ghorai [email protected] IIT Kanpur Reaction-diffusion equations

81 Sharmistha Majumdar [email protected] IIT Gandhinagar Next generation sequencing Genomic data analysis

Protein structure-function 82 Shekhar Mande [email protected] NCCS Protein interaction networks Graph theory Network biology

Mathematical modeling and bifurcation analysis of biological systems 83 Sriram K [email protected] Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi understanding signalling and network properties of cell division cycle, circadian rhythms, and diabetes learning and memory aspects during post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) and depression. National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Systems Biology 84 Supreet Saini [email protected] IIT Bombay Dynamics and statistics of evolution Control of intracellular processes

Population dynamics 85 Sutirth Dey [email protected] IISER Pune Control, chaos, Evolution

Abstract differential equations; Fractional differential equations 86 Syed Abbas [email protected] IIT Mandi Ecological Modelling; Difference equations

Structural biology and bioinformatics Protein-nucleic acid interaction 87 Saikrishnan Kayarat [email protected] IISER, Pune Macromolecular machines ATP-dependent motors

C.R.Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics Integrative genomics 88 Sailu Yellaboina [email protected] Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS) Disease comorbidity University of Hyderabad Campus Hyderabad Stem cell genomics

89 Samares Pal [email protected] University of Kalyani

90 Sandeep Krishna [email protected] NCBS

Molecular dynamics simulations 91 Sanjib Senapati [email protected] IIT Madras Biomolecules Green chemistry

92 Sankhasubhra Nag [email protected] Department of Physics, Sarojini Naidu College, Kolkata

Visva Bharati University 93 Santanu Ray [email protected] Santiniketan

94 Saroj Kant Mohapatra [email protected] National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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South Asian University 95 Saroj Kumar Sahani [email protected] New Delhi

96 Seema Nanda [email protected] TIFR-CAM

97 Shachi Gosavi [email protected] NCBS

Meta-genomics, NGS, smRNAs 98 Shree Prakash Pandey [email protected] IISER Kolkata Gene regulatory networks.

National Agri-food Biotechnology Institute Systems Biology 99 Shrikant Mantri [email protected] Mohali High Performance Computing Punjab Genome Data-mining

Bioinformatics, miRNA & gene expression analysis Developing new clustering and classification methods 100 Shubhra Sankar Ray [email protected] ISI Kolkata Artificial Neural Netwroks, Genetic Algorithms Data mining and Pattren recognition.

Computational Neuroscience Amrita School of Biotechnology Neuronal Biophysics 101 Shyam Diwakar [email protected] Kollam Neuromorphic engineering Applied machine learning, Biorobotics

102 Siddhartha P Chakrabarty [email protected] Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Viral Dynamics; Monte-Carlo Simulation; Control Theory

Systems Biology The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Computational Neuroscience 103 Sitabhra Sinha [email protected] Chennai Cardiac Arrhythmias Biological pattern formation

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Host-pathogen interactions; Biochemical Pathways; Protein Contact 104 Somdatta Sinha [email protected] (IISER) Mohali Networks; Collective behaviour; Ecological dynamics; Genome analysis National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology 105 Sriram K [email protected] Delhi

Structural bioinformatics Network Theory 106 Sudip Kundu [email protected] University of Calcutta Systems biochemistry Metabolic model

107 Suhita Nadkarni [email protected] IISER, Pune

108 Suman K Banik [email protected] S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Hans Raj College, Delhi University 109 Sundar Lal [email protected] New Delhi

110 Sushmita Mitra [email protected] ISI Kolkata

Epidemiology, Mathematical Modelling University of Calcutta 111 Susmita Sarkar [email protected] Stability and bifurcation Kolkata Fractional Calculus

Dynamical systems, stability and bifurcation theory, population dynamics, Mathematical Ecology (Theoretical studies on ecology, Bengal Engineering and Science University 112 Tapan Kumar Kar [email protected] population management, food chain, conservation of aquatic ecosystems, sustainable Shibpur use of ecosystem services), Mathematical modeling in ecology and epidemiology, Pest control. NCBS Computational neuroscience, systems biology, brain simulation, parallel 113 Upinder S. Bhalla [email protected] Bangalore computing National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Computational genomics ICAR Research Complex for Goa Bioinformatics 114 V Arunachalam [email protected] Old Goa Marker mining software Biometrics

SASTRA UNIVERSITY Epigenomics, Cancer Epigenetics, structural genomics 115 Vijalakshmi M [email protected] Thanjavur microRNAs, HDACs

Bio-visualization Indian Institute of Science Computational topology 116 Vijay Natarajan [email protected] Bangalore Scientific visualization Geometry processing

Theoretical ecology and evolutionary dynamics Indian Institute of Science Spatial ecology and evolutionary dynamics 117 Vishwesha Guttal [email protected] Bangalore Self-organization Collective animal behaviur

Stem cell bioinformatics Regulatory RNA biology 118 Zhumur Ghosh [email protected] Bose Institute Systems biology Cancer stem cells

Jawaharlal Nehru University 119 Pradipta Bandyopadhyay [email protected] New Delhi

120 Atul Narang [email protected] IIT Delhi

Medical Image/signal processing 121 Anup Singh [email protected] IIT Delhi MRI Data analysis

Systems Biology 122 Sumeet Agarwal [email protected] IIT Delhi Machine Learning Complex Networks

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) Chemometrics 123 Anurag Rathore [email protected] IIT Delhi Molecular modeling of protein interactions Mechanistic modeling of bioprocessing systems National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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Genome Engineering 124 D. Sundar [email protected] IIT Delhi Synthetic protein design Drug discovery

Inductive Logic Programming Machine Learning 125 Ashwin Srinivasan [email protected] IIIT Delhi Models for Biological Systems Models for Drug Design

Protein folding and dynamics Study of protein/peptide aggregation 126 Arnab Bhattacherjee [email protected] IIIT Delhi Mechanistic details of protein-DNA protein-protein interactions

High-throughput data analysis, MD simulations, in silico screening, machine learning 127 Dinesh Gupta [email protected] ICGEB, New Delhi algorithms

Complex Networks Plant Stress Biology 128 Gitanjali Yadav [email protected] NIPGR, New Delhi Active Site Architecture Comparative Genomics

129 Nandini C. Singh [email protected] NBRC Cognition, language, Neuroimaging

Mathematical modelling, differential equations, dynamical systems, 130 Samrat Chatterjee [email protected] THSTI cell biology, theoretical ecology, systems biology

Computer Aided Lead Molecule Design Protein Modeling 131 N. Latha [email protected] Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University Molecular Dynamics Simulations Biological Networks -PPIN, Protein-Drug Interactome

Computational proteomics, post-translational modifications, Proteome Informatics, bioinformatics, 132 Amit K. Yadav [email protected] Translational Health Science and Technology Institute Mass Spectrometry

Computational Techniques in predictive biology University School of Biotechnology Bioinformatics tool development 133 Sayan Chatterjee [email protected] GGS Indraprastha University Process optimisation In silico drug design National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB) Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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protein interaction network Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics protein structure and dynamics 134 Nagarajaram H A [email protected] Hyderabad disease mutations disordered proteins

Theoretical systems biology Structure and dynamics of complex networks, including chemical, biological, and socio-economic networks University of Delhi 135 Sanjay Jain [email protected] Mathematical modeling of complex adaptive systems, evolutionary mechanisms New Delhi Models of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics Nonlinear dynamics, random matrix models and quantum chaos Quantum field theory, superstring theory and quantum gravity