Core team
Thiliban Manivarma
Communications / Scientific Program Team MemberResearch Interest Master Thesis Research Interest Computer Aided Drug Design, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Structural Bioinformatics, Virology. Master Thesis Computational studies of regulatory mechanism and inhibition of ferroptotic cell death signal.
Elizabeth Alfaro Espinoza
Design / Website Content / Collaborations / Scientific Program Team MemberResearch Interest Research Interest Structural Biology, Protein-Peptide Interactions, Biophysics, Proteomics, Peptidomics.
Aayush Grover
Broadcast / Collaborations / Scientific Program Team MemberAayush is in the final year of his masters in Data Science from the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B), India. His interests broadly lie in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology. His master thesis focuses on using few-shot learning and multi-omics integration to accurately predict survival in cancer patients. His thesis is co-supervised by Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan of IIIT-B and Prof. Laurent Gatto of UCLouvain (Belgium).
Joske Ubels
Scientific Program Chair / Broadcast Team MemberResearch Interest Research Interest Cancer, genetics, machine learning, prediction of treatment effects.
Catalina Valdivia
Broadcast ChairResearch Interest Research Interest Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Symbiosis and Microbiomes.
Abhay Agarwal
Web DeveloperAbhay Agarwal is a Data Scientist and Freelance Tech evangelist working with a MNC in Jaipur. He graduated from IIT Kanpur with major Electrical Engineering. He likes to travel, read and find scalable practical solutions to problems. His association with ISCB started in july, 2020 when he was assigned to refurbish the old website.
Neeladri Sen
Communications / Collaborations / Scientific Program Team MemberNeeladri Sen is a post-doc in the CATH lab in University College London (UCL) working with Prof. Christine Orengo working on functional site predictions in proteins. He received his PhD from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune working in the field of computational structural biology with the major focus on protein-protein and protein-small molecule interfaces. He is generally interested in computational structural biology – machine learning, protein structure modeling, molecular dynamics, docking. He joined the ISCB-SC Webinars in 2020, and is involved with the Communications, Collaborations and Scientific Program teams.
Serbulent Unsal
Scientific Program Team MemberResearch Interest Research Interest Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Proteomics, Immunology, Cancer Research.