Genomics of Plant-Pathogen Interaction and the Stress Response

Dr Ashutosh Mani holds an MSc and PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Allahabad, India. He worked as a MIUR fellow at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and is currently an assistant professor at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. He has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in molecular and structural biology, genomics and computational biology. His areas of interest include herbal drug discovery against Alzheimer's disease and diabetes and plant stress tolerance. Dr Mani has published more than 50 articles in national and international journals of repute. He has supervised 5 PhD, 10 MTech and 23 BTech Students. He has completed four sponsored research projects and has received research grants from funding agencies such as DST, SERB, ICMR and DBT.

Dr Sandeep Kushwaha started his research career as a doctoral student at the Department of Bioinformatics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal. During his stay at Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, he worked on more than ten major scientific projects in plant and soil science, elucidating molecular and genetic mechanisms and plant interaction using omics data and bioinformatics tools and techniques. He works as Scientist-E at the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad, India. He has completed various research projects, published research articles in the public domain, and taught various higher education courses in India as well as abroad.