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Manish Kumar, Ph.D.

                                                                                                                                                      



Associate Professor
Department of Biophysics
University of Delhi South Campus
Benito Juarez Road
New Delhi -110021

Education
Ph.D. from Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India2003-8
Supervisor: Dr. GPS Raghava
Advance Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from2002-3
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
M.Sc. Biotechnology from2000-2
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India
Research/Teaching Experience
Associate Professor atJan 2021 – Present
Dept. of Biophysics, University of Delhi South Campus
Assistant Professor atJune 2010 - Jan 2021
Dept. of Biophysics, University of Delhi South Campus
Post Doctoral Scholar atJan 2009 –
May 2010
McGill University, Montreal, Canada (Advisor: Prof. Paul M. Harrison)
Courses Taught
S. No.            Course                                           From                 Level
1.            Bioinformatics (Theory)                    June 2012            M. Sc.
2.            Bioinformatics (Practical)                  Jan 2012              M. Sc.
3.            Computer Applications in Biology    Jan 2013    MPhil & Pre-PhD
4.            OMICS Biology                                 Jan 2016    MPhil & Pre-PhD
5.            Research Methodology                       Jan 2016   MPhil & Pre-PhD
Research Supervision
Level                                        Total             Completed          Ongoing
Ph.D.                                            8                        4                          4
M.Phil.                                         2                        2                          0
M.Sc.                                           4                        4                          0
UG (under DU CSEC)                2                        2                          0
The research work from my laboratory has been generously funded from following agencies: -
Sr. No.Funding
Agency
Title of
Project
DurationAmount
(Lakhs)
  1.NESTA
(UK)/
BIRAC;
Resistance-genes-array
based rapid detection
of AMR and
algorithm-driven therapy  
18 months
(May 2017-
Nov 2018)
    11.76
 2.         ICMR           Structural and functional
ambiguity in low comple-
xity regions of protein
sequences and their
association in
amyloid disorders (PhD
student SRF)   
3 Years
(2015-18)
        --
 3.         ICMR           In-silico characterization
of beta-lactamase for
identification of unique
featuresor novel drug
target discovery (PhD
student SRF)   
3 Years
(2015-18)
        --
 4.         Indo-Norwagian
Grant for Anti-
Microbial Resist-
ance (co-ordinator ICMR)           
Investigating magnesium
metallo-proteome and magn-
esium transporters to identify
novel drug targets for
combating biofilm mediated
antimicrobial resistance   
NA        NA
 5.         DBT           Using computational biology
to prioritize clinically
approved drugs towards
repurposing for tuberculosis   
NA
        NA
 6.         SERB/DST           Unfolded protein response:
Achilles heels of
fungal pathogenesis   
NA
        NA
 7.         SERB/DST           Combining computational and
experimental approaches for
the large scale production
of humanized single chain
antibody fragment (scFv)
against hTNF in E. coli
and Pichia pastoris   
NA
        NA
 8.         ICMR           Comparative genomics of
β-lactamase genes
including in-silico analysis
to identify target sequences
for β- lactamase inhibitors   
3 Years
(2012-15)
        46.36
 9.         DST           In-silico protein sequence
analysis and function
prediction   
3 Years
(2012-15)
        16.90
 10.         DST           Crystallographic structure determ-
ination of Archaeal
CRISPR-Cas Proteins   
3 Years
(2012-15)
       &nb 29.22