PhD Students & Lab Members 

From CSIR IGIB (2006- 2023) 


Ashok Patowary, PhD - Genome Biology

Jasmine Ahluwalia, PhD - Non-Coding RNA Biology

Mukesh Lalwani, PhD - Non-Coding RNA Biology

Meghna Singh, PhD - Zebrafish Genetics & Development

Kriti Kaushik, PhD - Non-Coding RNA Biology 

Ramcharan Singh, PhD - Zebrafish Genetics & Development

Shamsudheen KV, PhD - Disease Genomics  

Ankit Sabharwal, PhD - Disease Genomics   

Paras Sehgal, PhD - Non-Coding RNA Biology 

Samatha Mathew, PhD - Non-Coding RNA Biology 

Anjali Bajaj, PhD - Disease Genomics

Vishu Gupta, PhD - Disease Genomics

Gyan Ranjan, PhD - Non-Coding RNA Biology

Md Imran, PhD - Disease Genomics

Mohit Divakar - Human Genomics (PhD Thesis Submitted)

Vigneshwar Senthivel - Disease Genomics (PhD Thesis Submitted)

Srashti Jyoti Agrawal - Zebrafish Genetics (PhD ongoing)

Rahul Bhoyar, PhD - Human Genomics

Anushree Mishra, PhD - Human Genomics

Pratima Pandey, PhD - Lab Manage

Sumit - Medical Lab Technician

Sanjay - Medical Lab Technician

Sandeep - Medical Lab Technician 

Ramya Purkanti, PhD - Genome Biology

Prateek Joshi, PhD - Zebrafish Genetics

Chauhan RK, PhD- Zebrafish Genetics

Haque S, PhD - Non-Coding RNA Biology

Nambi K, PhD - Zebrafish Genetics

Rijit Jayarajan - Human Genomics

Ankit Verma, PhD - Human Genomics

Elvin Leonardo, PhD - Non-Coding RNA Biology

Sruti Srivastava, PhD - Zebrafish Genetics

Arvindakshin, MSc - Zebrafish Genetics

Adita Joshi, PhD - Science Outreach/ Zebrafish Biology

CSIR-IGIB Collaborations


Dr. Vinod Scaria (Informatics, Genomics & Non-Coding RNAs)

Dr. TN Vivek (Skin Biology)

Dr Souvik Maiti (Non-Coding RNAs)

Dr Beena Pillai (Regulation of ncRNAs)

Dr. Shantanu Sengupta (Proteomics)

Dr. Binukumar B.K (Disease Genomics) 

Dr. Sivaprakash Ramalingam (Disease Genomics)

Dr. Vamsi Yenamandra (Genomics of Skin Diseases)

Dr Md Faruq (Disease Genomics)

Dr Mitali Mukerji (Human Genomics)


External Collaborations

GUaRDIAN Network 

280 Collaborators from 70+ Hospitals and Research Centers in India. 

Patients & Families with Rare Diseases. 

(For full list see - The GUaRDIAN Consortium et al (2019). Genomics Of Rare Genetic Diseases – Experiences From India. BMC Human Genomics) 


IndiGene Network

35 Collaborators from across India & Volunteers

(For full list see- Jain et al (2021). IndiGenomes: a comprehensive resource of genetic variants from over 1000 Indian genomes. Nucleic Acids Res


National Collaborators

Prof Vani Brahmachari - University of Delhi, Delhi (Genomics)

Dr. Arjun Ray - IIIT, Delhi (Multiomics)

Dr. Rajender K. Motiani - RCB, Delhi (Zebrafish Genetics)

Dr. Inderjeet Kaur- LVPIE, Hyderabad (Disease Biology)

Dr Subhabrata Chakrabarti - LVPIE, Hyderabad (Disease Biology)

Prof Sethuraman, AIIMS, Delhi (Disease Genomics)

Prof Juneja, AIIMS, Delhi (Disease Genomics)

Prof Nitish Naik, AIIMS, Delhi (Disease Genomics)

Prof Madhulika Kabra, AIIMS, Delhi (Disease Genomics)

Prof Neraja Gupta, AIIMS, Delhi (Disease Genomics)

Prof Radha Mahadevan, TVMC, Tirunelveli (Disease Genomics)

Prof Shantaraman, TVMC, Tirunelveli (Disease Genomics)


International Collaborators

Prof Stephen Ekker, Mayo Clinic, USA

Prof Mohd. Zaki Salleh, iPROMISE-UiTM, Malaysia

Dr. Teh Lay Kek, iPROMISE-UiTM, Malaysia

Prof. Vajira H.W.Dissanayake, University of Colombo, Srilanka