Dr Anup Som
Research Interest:
Research Interest:
Computational Genomics, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Network Biology, Stem Cell Bioinformatics
Education:
Education:
- Ph.D. in Computational Biology in June 2003, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (Worked at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science – IACS, Kolkata).
- Diploma in UNIX, C, & C++ in 1998, ET & T Computer Education Center, Kolkata.
- M. Sc. in Physics in 1997, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (Specialization & Master thesis on: X-ray Crystallography).
- B. Sc. in Physics (Hons.), Mathematics, and Chemistry in 1995, Calcutta University, (College: Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur, Howrah) India.
Employment (Teaching and Research Career):
Employment (Teaching and Research Career):
- Assistant Professor:
- Centre of Bio-Informatics, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India.
- Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh - AUUP, Noida, India.
- Research Scientist:
- Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research – IBIMA, University of Rostock, GERMANY.
Postdoctoral Research:
Postdoctoral Research:
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution, University of Houston, USA.
- Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, Arizona State University, USA.
- Centre of Biological Physics, Department of Physics, Washington State University, USA.
Research Associate:
Research Associate:
- Department of Computational Biology, LIRMM (CNRS), University of Montpiller, FRANCE.
- Department of Biological sciences, Louisiana State University, USA.
International Visits:
International Visits:
- Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, GERMANY (September, 2010).
- Max-Plank Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, GERMANY (July, 2010).
- Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Achen, GERMANY (March, 2009).
- School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA (January, 2007).
- Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA (December, 2006).
- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA (June, 2005).
- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, USA (April, 2005).
- Department of Small Grains Breeding and Quantitative Genetics, Iowa State University, Ames, USA (March, 2005).
- Center for Functional Genomics, University at Albany, Rensselaer, USA (March, 2005).
- Laboratory of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (CNRS), Lyon, FRANCE (February, 2004).
- Bioinformatics & Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Institute of Advance Biosciences, Keio University, JAPAN (May, 2002).
Awards/Fellowships:
Awards/Fellowships:
- CNRS Research Fellowship, FRANCE 2003.
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, USA 2004-2008.
- German Science Foundation (DFG) Fellowship, GERMANY 2008-2011.
- CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) in Physical Sciences, 2001.
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics, 1997.
- Doctoral Research Fellowship from DST (Govt. of India), 1997.