Dr Anup Som
Research Interests:
Network & Systems Biology, Computational Stem Cell Biology, Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Serving as:
Associate Editor, Genomics
Editorial Board Member, Computational Biology and Chemistry
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):
Assistant Professor:
Centre of Bio-Informatics, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India (Current Position).
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:
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:
Department of Computational Biology, LIRMM (CNRS), University of Montpiller, FRANCE.
Department of Biological sciences, Louisiana State University, USA.
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:
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.