Dr. Manoj Kumar's Lab

About Us

Our lab works on viral bioinformatics and comparative/evolutionary genomics especially of human viruses namely HIV, Dengue, Influenza, Ebola, Hepatitis, HPV, EBV and Phages etc. Our lab involved in the development of prediction algorithms, web servers, databases and high throughput data analysis to solve biological problems. Also interested in wet lab validation of our bioinformatics predictions and NGS based viral genomics research work.  

Major Research Activities: Viral Bioinformatics/Viral Genomics

  • Development of bioinformatics tools for RNAi
    (Antiviral siRNA, antiviral miRNA, Allele-specific siRNA, Genome wide-RNAi etc)

  • To develop in-silico resources for peptides
    (Antiviral peptides, anti-HIV peptides, Neuropeptides etc)

  • Prediction of potential vaccine /drug candidates for viruses
  • To develop prediction tools for Post Translational Modifications-PTMs

  • Development of in-silico tools for Quorum sensing / Bio-film phenomenon

  • Bioinformatics resources for CRISPR- an antiviral defense mechanism in prokaryotes
  • Annotation and analysis of the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data

  • Comparative and evolutionary genomics of important human viruses

    • Lab Members

    Abid Qureshi
    Ph.D Student from 2010-2015.
    Present Status:Project Assistant-II at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.
    Akanksha Rajput
    Ph.D Student since 2012.
    Present Status: Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.
    Isha Monga
    Ph.D Student since 2012.
    Present Status: Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.
    Mohd. Shoaib Khan
    Ph.D Student since 2012.
    Present Status: Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.
    Karambir Kaur
    Ph.D Student since 2013.
    Present Status: Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.
    Showkat Ahmad Dar
    Ph.D Student since 2013.
    Present Status: Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.
    Amit Kumar Gupta
    Project Assistant from 2013-2014. Ph.D Student since 2014.
    Present Status: Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.
    Anamika Thakur
    Project Assistant-II at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.
    Madhumita Dey
    Project Assistant-II at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India.

    Alumni

    Nishant Thakur
    Worked as a Project Assistant from year 2009-2012.
    Present Status: Ph.D alumni from Centre dImmunologie de Marseille Luminy (CIML) at Marseille, France.
    Himani Tandon
    Worked as a Project Assistant from May,2013-July,2014.
    Present Status: Ph.D Student at IISc Bangalore.
    Aman Bhardwaj
    Ph.D Student from 2015-2016.
    Shivangi Sharma
    Worked as a Project Assistant from 2015-2016.
    Gazaldeep Kaur
    Worked as a Project Assistant from 2014-2016.
    Present Status: Senior Research Fellow at National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali.