Ankita Chaurasia, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Nice Area, France

■ Explored transcriptomic datasets (RNA-Seq) to study regenerative capabilities in a marine invertebrate species ■ Redesigned and expedited an RNA-Seq analysis pipeline using R, by insightfully applying different mapping-aligning strategies and performed functional analysis, culminated in Scientific Reports article (2016) and contributed towards the continuation of long-term project■ Acquired travel grant of 500 € to present the research findings at Tunicates meeting in Japan

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Performed genome-wide analysis in Arabidopsis species and 4 closely related brassica genomes to study the effect transposable elements• Reported the impact of transposable elements on transcription factor binding sites and their in rewiring new genes into existing transcriptional networks• Successfully contributed towards Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain funding (70,000 €) research project• Ensured time-bound completion of project and leading to the publication in a high impact journal (Impact factor: 5.77)

Naples Area, Italy

• Demonstrated creative thinking by communicating with interdisciplinary experts from diverse scientific departments to conceptualize idea for the 3 year doctoral research work• Performed comparative genomic analysis to study compositional patterns of teleostean and mammalian genomes and two invertebrate genomes, using different approaches and strategies, substantiating the key force driving the base composition of genomes and Established potential role played by the metabolic rate hypothesis in shaping genomic base composition, leading to the 4 peer-reviewed publications• Organized and presented interdisciplinary structured institutional journal club meetings discussing ongoing developments, helped me in gaining confidence in reading and reviewing published studies• Presented research progress for yearly evaluation in the seminars “BioDN@work: 2009-2011”, organized by Bioinformatics and Computational biology doctoral school’s funding committee, Department of Physical Sciences, Monte Sant’Angelo, University of Naples Federico II• Presented research findings in 4 international conferences and attended multiple workshops including one at EMBL-EBI, Cambridge

Allahabad Area, India

• Demonstrated creative thinking by working and communicating with interdisciplinary experts, wrote synopsis and review reports in first 2 semesters and independently developed idea towards the master thesis• Worked on corresponding mini-project involving tertiary structure prediction using homology modeling approach and further analyzed the metabolic pathway of Tyrosinase in A. bisporus as master thesis project

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, And Computational Biology

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Bionformatics

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Botany And Chemistry