The Glycome

Adeel Malik, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Institute of Intelligence Informatics Technology, Sangmyung University, Seoul, South Korea. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), New Delhi, India. During his PhD, he developed computational methods for the prediction of carbohydrate binding sites in proteins using sequence and evolutionary information. This was the first sequence-based method to predict the carbohydrate binding sites in proteins. Later he joined School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul, South Korea, to pursue his postdoctoral fellowship. As a part of his research, he investigated plant lectin-carbohydrate interactions via community-based network analysis by using glycan array data. He also worked as an Assistant Professor at Perdana University Center for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi), Malaysia from 2014-2016. Dr. Adeel has broad research interests in the area of bioinformatics that include protein-carbohydrate interactions, machine learning, NGS, etc. He has also to his credit several research publications in peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters, and edited books with international publishers.

Tanveer A. Dar, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Kashmir, India. Dr. Dar received his master's degree in Biochemistry from Hamdard University, New Delhi, India, and a PhD in Protein Biophysics from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. After completing his doctorate, Dr. Dar joined as a postdoctorate at the University of Montana, Missoula, USA, where his main research area involved characterization of protein denatured states. Dr. Dar's research interests mainly include i) structural and functional characterization of glycosylated therapeutic proteins from medicinal plants and ii) role of chemical chaperones/osmolytes in modulating fibrillation/aggregation of proteins. He has authored more than 40 publications in both national and international journals of repute in the field of protein biophysics and proteomics and is also a recipient of an INSA visiting fellowship from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), India. In addition to this, Dr. Dar has co-authored a number of edited volume books published by internationally reputed publishers, including Springer and Elsevier.