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Plant Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics Researcher | Phylogenetics, Scientific writing & Figure Design

Profile Summary

Integrated BS-MS in Biological Sciences from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal; currently pursuing a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram. Secured All India Rank 4 in the CSIR-UGC NET examination (December 2016). Research expertise in plant molecular biology, phylogenetics, protein sequence analysis, comparative genomics, and structural visualisation. Experienced with MEGA-X, IQ-TREE, PyMOL, ChimeraX, Adobe Illustrator, BioRender, sequence alignment, and publication-quality scientific figure preparation. Provide support in manuscript editing, proofreading, journal formatting, reference management, scientific illustrations, and presentation design.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Plant Breeding & Genetics
• ☆ Comparative Genomics
• ☆ Epigenetics
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Cell Signaling Pathways
• ☆ Gene Regulation
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Phylogenetics
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Journal Selection
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Instructional Materials
• ☆ Scientific Proofreading & Editing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Data Visualization, Data Mining

Work Experience

Project Fellow

Indian institute of science education and research bhopal

June 2017 - July 2018

Education

PhD

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram

August 2018 - Present

Doctoral Degree (School of Biology)

IISER Thiruvananthapuram

August 2018 - Present

BS MS (Dual) Degree (Biological Sciences)

IISER - Bhopal

August 2012 - June 2017

BS - MS (Dual) Degree

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

August 2012 - June 2017

Certifications

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Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Nevedha Ravindran, Harshil Ramachandran, Nikhil Job, Arpita Yadav, K.P. Vaishak, Sourav Datta (2021). B-box protein BBX32 integrates light and brassinosteroid signals to inhibit cotyledon opening . Plant Physiology.

Ramesh Bondada, Saravanakumar Somasundaram, Mohan Premanand Marimuthu, Mohammed Afsal Badarudeen, Vaishak Kanjirakol Puthiyaveedu, Ravi Maruthachalam (2020). Natural epialleles of Arabidopsis SUPERMAN display superwoman phenotypes . Communications Biology.

K.P. Vaishak, Premachandran Yadukrishnan, Souvika Bakshi, Amit Kumar Kushwaha, Harshil Ramachandran, Nikhil Job, Dion Babu, Sourav Datta (2019). The B-box bridge between light and hormones in plants . Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology.