Skills
Microbial Genomics, Metagenomics, Genome-Resolved Metagenomics, Environmental Genomics, Eukaryotic Genomics, Microbial Community Profiling, Metagenomic Data Analysis, NGS Data Analysis, Amplicon Sequencing Analysis, Genome Assembly, Metagenome Assembly, Metagenomic Binning, Metabolic Reconstruction, Functional Annotation, Gene Annotation, Genome Mining, Comparative Genomics, Sequence Analysis, Taxonomic Classification, Quality Control of Sequencing Data, CAZyme Annotation, Protein Sequence Analysis, Linux, Bash, Python, BLAST+, MEGAHIT, MetaBAT2, MaxBin, DASTool, CheckM, GTDB-Tk, dRep, Kraken2, Krona, KEGG, Pfam, CARD, BacMet, SPAdes, Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Experimental Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Microbial Culturing, Microbial Isolation, Enzyme Production, Enzyme Assays, Solid-State Fermentation, Liquid-State Fermentation, Fermentation Optimization, Protein Purification, DNA Extraction, RNA Extraction, Protein Extraction, RT-PCR, Environmental Sampling, Marine Microbiology, Estuarine Microbiology, Freshwater Microbiology, Soil Microbiology, Deep-Sea Microbiology, Sediment Sampling, Water Sampling, Microcosm Experiments, Statistical Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Alpha Diversity Analysis, Beta Diversity Analysis, Microbiome Analysis, Data Visualization, Scientific Data Analysis, Scientific Writing, Manuscript Preparation, Literature Review, Scientific Communication.
About
I am a microbiologist with research experience in microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, metagenomics, and genomic data analysis. My research experience spans soil, marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments, where I have combined experimental microbiology with sequencing-based approaches to investigate microbial communities and their functional responses to environmental conditions.
I am currently working as a Junior Research Fellow at Uka Tarsadia University, where I investigate protist–bacteria interactions in environmental microcosms and study how predation pressure influences bacterial phenotypes and exopolysaccharide (EPS) production. My work involves establishing microbial co-cultures and microcosms, monitoring EPS production, and applying metagenomic profiling to examine changes in microbial communities. This experience has strengthened my interest in understanding how interactions between microorganisms influence community dynamics and functional traits.
Previously, as a Project Associate at CSIR–National Institute of Oceanography, I worked with high-throughput genomic datasets from marine and estuarine environments. I applied metagenomic workflows involving sequence quality control, assembly, MAG binning, taxonomic profiling, functional annotation, and metabolic reconstruction. I also contributed to environmental sampling, sample processing, scientific manuscript preparation, and interpretation of genomic data. This work contributed to four peer-reviewed publications.
My MSc research further combined experimental microbiology with genomics. I isolated pectinolytic fungi from agro-industrial waste, optimized fermentation conditions, performed enzyme assays, and used whole-genome sequencing to investigate an unexpected finding of two distinct fungal genomes within a single culture. This work resulted in an accepted manuscript in Scientific Reports.
My technical background includes microbiological culturing, environmental microcosms, molecular biology, enzyme assays, NGS data processing, genome and gene mining, sequence annotation, metabolic reconstruction, Linux/Bash, Python, SPAdes, and BLAST. I have also worked with environmental water and sediment sampling using Niskin samplers, Van Veen grabs, and sediment corers.
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