People of the lab

The researchers and staff behind the lab's work

Current Team

Alumni

Surabhi Srivastava Chief Scientific Officer, TIGS Bengaluru

Project Coordinator · 2022

Sree Sankar D

Project Scientist · 2022

Liza Changkakoti

Project Associate · 2022

Prashanth Umapathy

Guest Worker · 2022

Archana Verma PhD student at UKM, Uniklinikum Muenster, Germany

Project Associate · 2023

Abhijeet Karan

Project Associate · 2023

Manish Ranjan

Project Associate · 2023

Sai Krishna Jandhyala

Project Associate · 2023

Priya Singh PhD student at Technical University of Munich, Germany

Project Associate · 2023

Kottapalli Srividya PhD student at OUHSC Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (GPiBS), Oklahoma, USA

Project Associate · 2023

Victor Bannerjee PhD student at University of Munster, Germany

Project Associate · 2023

Wasimuddin Senior Scientist at Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Vikin, Norway

Project Scientist · 2023

Shruti Gupta

Dissertation Student · 2023

Kiran Thota

Project Associate · 2024

Malini Nemalikanti Graduate Student at Guigo Lab, CRG Barcelona

Project Associate · 2024

Payel Mukherjee PhD student at Menzies Institute of Medical Research, Tasmania, Australia

Project Associate · 2024

Akshay Avvaru Post Doctoral Fellow in Dashnow Lab, UC Anschutz

Project Scientist · 2024

Arvind Kumar

Graduate Student · 2025

AP

Apuratha Pandiyan

Project Scientist · 2025

Vanitha Shyamili K Research Fellow at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore

Project Scientist · 2025

Jayesh Jain PhD student at DTU - Technical University of Denmark

Project Associate · 2025

Nadigadda Shiva Sai

Project Associate · 2025

PG

Priyanka Garg

Project Associate · 2025

Rhea Jana

Project Associate · 2025

Nitesh Kumar Singh Genomics Facility, CSIR-CCMB

Senior Technical Officer · 2026

Pratheusa Machha Field Application Scientist, Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Project Scientist · 2026

Reuben Jacob Mathew PhD student at SAiGENCI, University of Adelaide, Australia

Project Associate · 2026

Sreelekshmi M S

Project Associate · 2026

Abishek Kumar S PhD student at FIMM, University of Helsinki, Finland

Project Associate · 2026

Pets of the Lab

Honorary lab members who keep morale up

Bagheera aka Baghu

with Tej

Kailash aka Kai

with Ramakanth

Miyoko

with Anukrati

As Chief Emotional Support Officer, my job is much harder than my mom’s. I supply the daily quota of cuteness and snuggles needed to keep her sane, grounded, and ready to do great science

Riyo

with Komal

Shifu

with Tej

Pet Alumni

Mace

with Reuben

Zara

with Reuben