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Nagarajaram

Also known as: H.A.Nagarajaram, Hampapathalu A Nagarajaram

University of Hyderabad, University of Hyderabad School of Life Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Central college, Bengaluru, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics

ORCID iD 0000-0001-8568-0620
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Prof.Nagarajaram obtained his PhD in 1995 under the mentorship of Prof. C.Ramakrishnan, Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. Soon after PhD he joined Prof. Sir Tom Blundell’s group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, England, and carried out his post-doctoral work from 1996 to 2000. In 2000 he returned to India and joined CDFD as Staff Scientist and established the Laboratory of Computational Biology (LCB). At CDFD he was also holding an additional responsibility of heading its Bioinformatics Facility and served as the India Node Manager of EMBnet as well as the elected member of the Executive Committee of theM ASEA-PACIFIC Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet). In Feb, 2017, he accepted the Professor position in the School of Life Sciences (SLS), University of Hyderabad (UoH) and moved LCB to the SLS premises. Since the last quarter of 2018 he has been made the first Head of the newly formed Department of Systems and Computational Biology (DoSCB). Till recently (Oct, 2020) he also served as Professor-in-Charge of Centre for Modelling, Simulation and Design (CMSD) . He is also coordinating the DBT-Centre for Microbial Informatics (DBT-CMI), (dbtcmi.in) which is supported by a grant from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. Under his leadership, DBT-CMI is parterning with the Anthropological Survery of India (AnSI), in the metagenome analysis of gut microbiomes of certain tribal communities in India.

So far, under his guidance eleven students have successfully completed their PhDs and currently, pursuing their career as scientists in India and abroad. One student has submitted her PhD thesis recently and waiting for the reports. Two are writing up their thesis and one is pursuing his PhD research. In addition, he has mentored several Masters students as well.

He has published about 80 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals that include Journal of Proteome Research, Human Mutation, Proteomics, PNAS, JMB, Protein Science etc.

As a teacher he has been teaching PhD students (Course: Biostatistics) and Masters Students (Courses: Computational Systems Biology and Maths and Stats).

Employment

  • University of Hyderabad Coordinator
    2021 - 2026
  • University of Hyderabad Professor and Head
    2018 - Present
  • University of Hyderabad School of Life Sciences Professor
    2017 - 2018
  • Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Group Leader
    2000 - 2017
  • University of Cambridge Post-doctoral Research Associate
    1996 - 2000
  • Birkbeck University of London
    1996 - 1996
  • Astra Research Centre, Bengaluru Post-doctoral Research Fellow
    1995 - 1996

Education

  • Indian Institute of Science PhD
    1987 - 1995
  • Central college, Bengaluru MSc.
    1985 - 1987
  • National College Jayanagar BSc.
    1982 - 1985

Projects & Funding

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Publications (35)