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I have a masters degree in Neuroscience from National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) and a bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from St.Xavier's college Ahmedabad. As a quote says, “Curiosity is the fuel for discovery, inquiry and learning.” Research is a field driven by immense curiosity. I began my master’s program in Neuroscience in 2018 with little prior research experience, but driven by my curiosity. . Thus, I began to satiate my own curiosity by studying the very organ that makes us curious—the brain. Lab techniques- Agarose gel electrophoresis, SDS PAGE. Microbiology- cell plating, bacterial isolation.Biochemical tests of enzyme's activity. Computer skills- Can work with Ubuntu Linux, Mac OSx and Microsoft windows, Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office and Libre office. Programming skills – PYTHON, R, MATLAB, Linux shell (Bash) Typing – English US keyboard touch typing 45 words per minuteLibraries in Python Matplotlib, Pandas, Numpy, seaborn, statsmodels, sklearnProficient knowledge about computer hardware and PC assemblytime series data (EEG and MEG data) in MATLAB, Segmentation and volumetric analysis of MRI images using Freesurfer, FSL and other MATLAB based toolboxes. Application of statistical methods to raw data obtained from Image analysis software. Statistical analysis in Python and RBasic knowledge of primer designing tools, sequence alignment tools FASTA, BLAST.

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