Srinivasan Ramachandran

St. Xavier’s College.

M. tuberculosis bacterial colonies

S. Ramachandran did his undergraduate studies at the St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and after earning a BSc (honors) degree from the University of Calcutta, he completed post graduate studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in biotechnology.[1] Continuing at JNU, he secured a PhD in 1993 and started his career by joining the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) where he serves as a senior principal scientist at the department of genome analysis.[2] He also serves as an adjunct faculty and principal scientist at the faculty of biological sciences of the University of Calcutta, holding the position of a professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR).[1]

Ramachandran's research is in the field of informative bioinformatics and he leads a group of scientists engaged in integrative immunoinformatics, architecture of gene co-expression and flux modeling.[3] He is credited with the discovery of new virulence factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which was accomplished using computational analysis; the studies were subsequently verified through experiments. He is the co-developer of SPAAN, a genome informatics software[4] and has contributed to the development of OSDDlinux, a customized computer operating system for drug discovery.[5] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[6][note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 115 of them.[7] Besides he has delivered keynote or invited speeches at various seminars and conferences.[8][9][10]

The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2007.[11]

• Jalali, Saakshi; Kohli, Samantha; Latka, Chitra; Bhatia, Sugandha; Vellarikal, Shamsudheen Karuthedath; Sivasubbu, Sridhar; Scaria, Vinod; Ramachandran, Srinivasan (2 June 2015). "Screening Currency Notes for Microbial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance Genes Using a Shotgun Metagenomic Approach". PLOS ONE. 10 (6): e0128711. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128711. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4452720. PMID 26035208.
• Puniya, Bhanwar Lal; Kulshreshtha, Deepika; Mittal, Inna; Mobeen, Ahmed; Ramachandran, Srinivasan (22 March 2016). "Integration of Metabolic Modeling with Gene Co-expression Reveals Transcriptionally Programmed Reactions Explaining Robustness in Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 23440. doi:10.1038/srep23440. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4802306. PMID 27000948.
• Chaudhuri, Rupanjali; Kulshreshtha, Deepika; Raghunandanan, Muthukurussi Varieth; Ramachandran, Srinivasan (1 March 2014). "Integrative immunoinformatics for Mycobacterial diseases in R platform". Systems and Synthetic Biology. 8 (1): 27–39. doi:10.1007/s11693-014-9135-9. ISSN 1872-5325. PMC 3933634. PMID 24592289.

• "Srinivasan Ramachandran" (personal website). Google sites. 25 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
• S. Ramachandran (2013). "Integrative immunoinformatics for Mycobacterial diseases in R platform". Systems and Synthetic Biology. 8 (1): 27–39. doi:10.1007/s11693-014-9135-9. PMC 3933634. PMID 24592289. Retrieved 26 December 2017.