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Dr. Nagarajaram (born, 1964) returned from Cambridge, UK, in 2000 to join CDFD where he established the Laboratory of Computational Biology. During 2001-06 he also held an additional responsibility of heading the Bioinformatics Facility at CDFD and the Chair of EMBNet India node manager. During this period he contributed to the establishment of SUN-Centre for Medical Bioinformatics at CDFD. In addition, he has been serving as the adjunct faculty at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, ANGRAU, Hyderabad and also at the School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, where he teaches a course in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Since 2006 he has been elected as the member of the Executive Committee of the ASEA-PACIFIC Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet). He is also an elected member of The National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad.
His current research interests includes :
Computational analysis of simple sequence repeats in bacterial genomes
Structural interpretation of nsSNPs in human genome
Development of novel tools for sequence and structure analysis of proteins and their interactions
Development of data management systems related to medical bioinformatics. |