Mr. Chandru J. completed his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the Department of Genetics, University of Madras. His work focuses on screening for mutations that can lead to hearing loss, which is considered to be a heterogeneous genetic disorder.

Mr. Jyotirmoy Das completed his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Bangalore University and M.Tech. from West Bengal University of Technology. He is currently working at Bose Institute, Kolkata as a DST-INSPIRE Fellow and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Molecular Evolution.

Mr. Kuldeep Singh Chauhan obtained his M.Sc. degree in biotechnology from Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. under the guidance of Dr. Prafullakumar B. Tailor at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.

Dr. Neelam Kedia Mokashi obtained her Ph.D. degree in Life Sciences from National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai, where she analyzed the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of embryo loss after paternal drug administration. She studied the imprinting mechanisms in KCNQ1 gene as part of her post-doctoral research at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.

Dr. Rajesh R. P. obtained his Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology/Marine Biology from the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. He has worked as a post doctoral research fellow in the Molecular Biophysics Unit at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is currently working in the same lab as a DST Research Scientist. His research interests include venom peptide sequencing from marine cone snails and wasps, additionally he works on small molecule chemistry and their cytotoxic mechanisms towards anticancer drug discovery.

Ms. Saranya M. is pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the Indian Institute of Sciences under the guidance of Dr. Rahul Roy. Her work involves understanding the sequence variations in dengue virus genome.

Dr. Suvankar Ghorai completed his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in molecular virology and protein biochemistry. He pursued his post doctoral research at the University of Washington, Seattle under the guidance of Dr. Jim Mullins. During his post doctoral research tenure he worked on HIV-1 functional genomics and vaccine design. He is currently working as a Research Scientist under the J. C. Bose National Research Fellowship scheme at the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune.