SAI MUKUND RAMAKRISHNAN

SAI MUKUND RAMAKRISHNAN
B.Tech, Department of Bioinformatics, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, INDIA
Email ID: [email protected]. Phone: +91 9944783619
Website: http://www.bioindians.org/Sai_Mukund
OBJECTIVE
I aspire for a challenging career in research and development with zeal, thereby contributing towards
the goals of the organisation with honesty, integrity and dedication.
AREAS OF INTEREST
1. Development of Bioinformatics related Tools, Algorithms and Databases
2. Sequence and Structural analysis
3. Molecular Modelling and simulation
4. Docking and drug designing.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
1. Undergraduate Degree: Bachelors of technology (B.Tech), Department of Bioinformatics,
SASTRA University. May 2014 (First Class).
a. Cumulative GPA (Indian System): 7.311/10
b. Cumulative GPA (US System): 2.953/4
2. 12th Grade: Tamil Nadu State Secondary Education (SSE) Examination, March 2010
a. Relevant Subjects: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology
b. Percentage acquired: 92.4% and Rank: 1st division and distinction and class first
3. 10th Grade: Tamil Nadu Matriculation Board Examinations, March 2008
a. Percentage: 81% and Rank: 1st division.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Molecular dynamic studies to identify the behaviour of proteins in urea solution.
a. Research Assistant under Dr. Hams Priya, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras.
b. April 2015 – Present.
2. Development of a database for antimicrobial agents from Plant sources.
a. Research Assistant under Dr. Rajarajan K, Department of Biotechnology India Center for
Bioinformatics, Presidency College, Chennai, India.
b. Nov 2014 – Jan 2014.
3. Development of plant derived molecule databases named Phytochemica and SerpentinaDB.
a. Research Assistant under Dr. Ganesh Bagler, Centre for Biologically Inspired System
Sciences, IIT Jodhpur.
b. Online link: http://home.iitj.ac.in/~bagler/webservers/webservers.html.
c. June 2014 – August 2014
d. NNMCB Internship. Stipend: INR 15,000/month, funded by IISc Bangalore.
4. (i) Development of a web based server ABRES Finder to identify antibiotic resistant genes.
(ii) Identification of consensus regions in Vibrio cholerae based on antibiotic resistance
mechanism. Model organism: Vibrio cholera.
a. Research Assistant under Dr. Sharad Gupta, Department of Biological Engineering, IIT
Gandhinagar, India.
b. Online link: http://www.bioindians.org/ABRES.
c. May 2013 – July 2013.
d. SRIP Internship. Stipend: INR 6,000/month funded IIT Gandhinagar.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
1. DABP: Database of Antibacterial Peptides.
a. Authors: Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Udayakumar Mani, Sadhana Ravisankar
b. Journal: Discovery Pharmacy.
c. Link: http://www.discovery.org.in/PDF_Files/dp_20130302.pdf.
2. PDB@: An offline toolkit for exploration of PDB files.
a. Authors: Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Udayakumar Mani, Sadhana Ravisankar
b. Journal: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics.
c. DOI: 10.1007/s10969-013-9162-x.
3. PDBMut: A Protein Mutant Identification Server,
a. Authors: Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Udayakumar Mani, Sadhana Ravisankar
b. Journal: Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Research.
c. Link: http://jpsr.pharmainfo.in/issue.php?page=47.
4. RSMD: Repeat Searcher and Motif Detector
a. Authors: Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Udayakumar Mani, Sadhana Ravisankar
b. Journal: Journal of Biomedical Research.
c. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25332714.
5. Modelling and flux balance analysis of the Human Apoptotic Pathway.
a. Authors: Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Udayakumar Mani, Ajithavalli C, Vignesh K.
b. Journal: International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
c. Status: Accepted, in press.
6. Pathvisio++: An interactive web server
a. Authors: Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Udayakumar Mani, Nishanth K, Raghu Ram G.
b. Journal: Journal of Biomedical Research
c. Status: Under review
7. SerpentinaDB: A database of Plant – Derived Molecules from Rauvolfia Serpentina
a. Authors: Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Dr. Ganesh Bagler, Shivalika Panthina
b. Journal: BMC Bioinformatics
c. Status: Under review
ACADEMIC PROJECTS (Bioinformatics)
1. FINAL YEAR PROJECT: BINC: Bioinformatics in Cloud which can be used to run bioinformatics
applications at increased speeds and lesser memory usage.
a. SASTRA University, Mentor: Prof. Udayakumar Mani.
b. Online Link: http://www.bioindians.org/BINC.
c. December 2013 – April 2014.
2. MINI PROJECT: SEAP: Snake Epidemiology Analysis Portal providing information regarding snake
bites such as first aid measures, hospital details, snake information etc.
a. SASTRA University, Mentor: Prof. Udayakumar Mani.
b. Online Link: http://www.bioindians.org/SEAP.
c. July 2013 – October 2013.
3. miRD-DB: miRNA expression and disease database.
a. SASTRA University, Mentor: Prof. Udayakumar Mani.
b. Online Link: http://www.bioindians.org/mird-db.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS (Computer Science)
1. SOCS: Student Online Counselling System. It is an online application to increase the academic
welfare of student fraternity.
a. SASTRA University, Mentor: Prof. Udayakumar Mani.
b. June 2013 – July 2013.
2. BioINDIANS: BioINDIANS is a platform that provides various information’s with respect to
Bioinformatics, Computer science.
a. SASTRA University, Mentor: Prof. Udayakumar Mani.
b. February 2013 – Present.
c. Online link: http://www.bioindians.org
3. Developed a Confocal Microscope and Library reservation system for the department
implementing the First In First Out (FIFO) algorithm.
a. SASTRA University, Mentor: Prof. Udayakumar Mani.
b. September 2011 – December 2012.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. Gulf Medical Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
a. Lab Assistant in the Phlebotomy Laboratory.
b. Introduction to extraction and purification of samples from patients.
c. Categorizing the samples on performing basic tests like GTT and GCT.
d. May 2011 – June 2011.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
BIOINFORMATICS PROFICIENCY
Tools and Servers
Schrodinger, AutoDock, Discovery Studio, PyMOL, Rasmol, Swiss
PDB Viewer, Chimera, ChemSketch, Argus Lab, Wincoot,
GROMACS.
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
Programming Languages
Perl, PHP, HTML, CSS, JAVA, Ajax, C, C++, JavaScript and JQuery
DBMS languages
MySQL
Operating Systems
Windows XP/7/8, Linux
Software packages
MSOffice (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Mathematical packages
MATLAB, R
WET LAB TECHNIQUES
Transcriptomics (Microarray) and Proteomics (2D PAGE), Gel Electrophoresis, Centrifugation,
Chromatography, DNA/RNA/Protein Separation.
WEBSITES DEVELOPED
1. ICGeT (http://www.sastra.edu/ICGeT13)
2. ICES (http://www.sastra.edu/ICES13)
3. Chromatin Epigenetics Lab SASTRA (http://scbt.sastra.edu/epigenetics)
4. CoSyLab IIT Jodhpur (http://home.iitj.ac.in/~bagler)
ONLINE COURSE CERTIFICATIONS
1. Drug Discovery, Development and Commercialization
a. University of California, San Diego.
b. Tutors: Williams SE and Joseph D. SKAGGS School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences.
c. Percentage Acquired: 85%.
WORKSHOPS and CONFERENCES ATTENDED
1. Open Source conducted by Mozilla Firefox. (SASTRA University: March 8th – 9th).
2. Neurobiological Pathways: Mind To Genes, held by Dr. NITIN SHUKLA M.D. (SASTRA University:
October 23rd – 24th 2011)
3. Narco Analysis and Brain Mapping by Pudma Bushan Prof Dr P Chandra Sekharan. (SASTRA
University: October 23rd – 24th 2010).
4. UDAN - An Entrepreneurship workshop by ICHIBAN. (SASTRA University: October 1st 2010).
5. Chemistry Research Meet and Drug Discovery Symposium. (IIT Gandhinagar: May 24th – 26th
2013).
6. International conference on Structural and Functional Genomics. (SASTRA University: January 6th
– 7th 2013).
7. International Conference on Functional Genomics and Computational Biology. (SASTRA
University: January 5th – 6th 2012)
8. Computational Drug design using the software SCHRODINGER. (SASTRA University: March 26th –
27th 2012)
EXTRA CIRICULAR ACTIVITES
1. Paper presentation in DAKSH 2012, an International Techno Management Fest: SASTRA
University: Won the 1st prize.
2. Paper presentation in Reverberations 2013, Biotechnology department symposium: SASTRA
University: Won the 3rd prize.
3. Protein modelling event in DAKSH 2012 and 2013, an International Techno Management Fest:
SASTRA University: Won the 2nd prize.
4. Coding event in DAKSH 2012, an International Techno Management Fest: SASTRA University: Won
the 1st prize.
5. Poster presentation in Reverberations 2014, Biotechnology department symposium: SASTRA
University: Won the 2nd prize.
CO CIRICULAR ACTIVITIES
University Dance Team, National and State Level Karate and Taekwondo player.
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
1. Nominated as the Joint Secretary and Chairman for my department association COMBIGS.
2. One among the moderators of BioINDIANS and BioOOPS. (From 2013)
Languages known
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit and French
Declaration,
I declare hereby all the above furnished details to be completely true.
Date: 20/04/2015
Sai Mukund R
Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan
Place: Chennai