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Biography: I have done my undergraduate studies in Biotechnology from India and came to University of Nottingham to do masters in Integrative Systems Biology. The transition in the area of studies, from biotechnology to systems biology, has put forth a challenge in front of me in order have a successful research career. I think that my experience as a masters student was the ideal situation envisaged by most students. Apart from receiving scholarship for my MSc from university and gaining proper academic training from the professors at UoN, I got paid internship at one of the most prestigious biological research institute of Europe - EMBL-EBI, Cambridge (UK). I was an intern curator for 7 months in Computational Neurobiology group under Dr. Nicolas LeNovere. My project involved encoding, curating, annotating and submitting models to BioModels Database in order to enhance sharing and reusability of the models. EBI came out to be the best for me to gain knowledge and learn skills required for developing and simulating diverse complex mathematical models using different simulation tools and model sharing format like SBML. During my internship, I submitted my MSc thesis and successful completed my MSc with distinction. By the end of masters, I was very much satisfied and confident about my future career. I received PhD position in my department and was successful in getting Research Excellence Scholarship from University of Nottingham. As result, currently, I am in my 1st year of PhD at School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington campus. My multidisciplinary PhD project aims to develop mathematical models of nutrient uptake in plants, particularly rice which both forms the diet of more than half of the world population and provides insights for other crop species (e.g. wheat and barley).

Biography: From 1.Sept.2009 Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India.
Apr 2005-Jun 2009 BioMS Postdoctoral research fellow on modeling and experimental validation of reaction diffusion gradients in spindle assembly. Karsenti Lab, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
Oct 2003-Mar 2005 Postdoctoral research on agent based tumour modelling and 3D cell-culture, Complex Biosystems Modelling Laboratory (CBML), Harvard-MIT HST, Boston, MA, USA.

May 2000-Jul2003 PhD in Biology (Magna cum Laude) “Modeling Nuclear Body Dynamics in Living Cells by 4-D Microscopy, Image Analysis and Simulation” supervisor Prof. Roland Eils and Prof. Harald Herrmann, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany. http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/3734.

Jun 1996-Apr 1998. MSc Zoology (Molecular Biology) 2 yrs. 1st Class; Zoology Dept., Pune Univ., India,
Jun 1993-Apr 1996
BSc Botany 3 yrs 1st Class with Distinction (73.67%), Fergusson College, Pune
1995 Small German diploma (KDS), Max Müller Bhavan, Pune, Goethe Institut & LM Universität, Munich.
1993 Higher Secondary Certificate* 1993 1st Class (77.17%), St. Vincent's High School, Pune
1991 Secondary School Certificate* 1991 Ist Division (82%), St. Vincent's High School, Pune

Biography: 1991-1998 PhD, University of California, San Francisco & Harvard Medical School
1998-2000 EMBO postdoctoral fellow, EMBL
2000-2002 American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute Dresden
2002-present Assistant Member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego
Assistant Professor, Dept of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of
California, San Diego

Biography: Born 25 April, 1973, India
EDUCATION
2004 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)Jadavpur University, India
1996 Master of Science (M.Sc.)Banaras Hindu Uuniversity, India
1993 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)Burdwan University, India
GRANTS, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
1997-2002 Research fellowship from UGC,Government of India
1997 Qualified NET for Lecturership and research fellowship
1996 Qualified All India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
1995 Merit scholarship from UGC,Government of India.
1993 National scholarship, Government of India.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2005-2012 Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Anne Ephrussi
1997-2003 Department of Genetic Engineering, IICB, Kolkata, India
Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Samit Adhya
1992-1993 Department of Zoology, Hooghly Mohsin College, India
INVITED ORAL PRESENTATIONS
1. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on 'Eukaryotic mRNA Processing, USA
2009.
2. Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, USA 2008
PUBLICATIONS
1. Ghosh, S., Marchand, V. and Ephrussi, A. Characterization of PYM in Drosophila reveals its role in EJC disassembly during oogenesis. Manuscript in preparation.
2. Ghosh, S.*, Marchand, V.*, Gaspar, I. and Ephrussi, A. (2012) Control of RNP motility and localization by a splicing-dependent structure in oskar mRNA. Nature Structural Molecular Biology 19(4), 441-449.
*equal contribution
3. Ghosh, S., Goswami, S. and Adhya, S. (2003) Role of superoxide dismutase in survival of Leishmania within the macrophage. Biochemical Journal 369(Pt.3), 447-452.
4. Adhya, S., Basu, S., Bhattacharyya, S.N., Chatterjee, S., Dhar, G., Goswami, S., Ghosh, S., Home, P., Mahata, B. and Tripathi, G. (2003) Mitochondrial differentiation in kinetoplastid protozoa: a plethora of RNA controls. Differentiation 71, 549–556.

Biography: Permanent Address : Prasanth Buildings,
28-2A, North Street,
Martandam- 629 165,
Kanyakumari District,
Tamil Nadu, INDIA.

Date of Birth : 22-05-1966, 40years

Educational Qualification :

M.Sc Scott Christian College, Nagercoil,
Tamil Nadu. INDIA.

M.Phil. Scott Christian College, Nagercoil,
Tamil Nadu.

Teaching experience :

Designation Duration Total period

Senior Lecturer 2-8-1993onwards 13 years



Special Courses undertaken:
1. Training Programme on “Biostatistics” March 26-27, 1997. Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli.

2. Training Programme on “Principles and Methodologies in Marine Biotechnology” May 22 – June 11 2000. Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli.

3. Training Programme on “Recombinant DNA Technology” 11-14 February 2004, Department of Plant and Industrial Biotechnology, Holy Cross College, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.


4. Training Programme on “Bioinformatics” 3-6th November 2004, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Martandam, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.


Current Ph.D work (Broad Topic):
“Cloning and Sequencing analysis of the selected mitochondrial genes of Acanthurus fishes”

Extra curricular activities:

Senate Member, Manonmanium Sundaranar Univesity, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India