Broadcast Team, ISCBSC Webinars

Broadcast Team

Catalina Valdivia

Broadcast Chair

Research Interest Research Interest Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Symbiosis and Microbiomes.

Aayush Grover

Broadcast / Collaborations / Scientific Program Team Member

Aayush 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).

Emmanuel Adamolekun

Communications Team Member

Emmanuel Adamolekun is a Research Assistant at Department of Immunology and Bioinformatics at Helix Biogen Research Institute, Ogbomosho, Nigeria under the guidance of Dr. Kolawole E. Oladipo. His area of research interest lies in Immunoinformatics, Genomics, Data science and Immunology of infectious diseases. His association with volunteering for bioinformatics educational related activities started when he volunteered as a member Local organizing committee of the First Nigerian Bioinformatics Conference (FNBC) in 2019, this forward arouse his interest in Bioinformatics. Later in Mid-2020, he started volunteering for ISCB-Student Council-related activities as a member of the communication committee on the ISCB-Student Webinar series program.

Sayane Shome

ISCBSC Webinars Co-chair

Sayane Shome is a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program at Iowa State University, USA under the guidance of Dr. Robert L. Jernigan. Her area of research interest lies in computational biophysics, genomics, and machine learning. Her association with ISCB-SC started in 2010 as a volunteer when she joined the core team of Regional Student Group-India. Later, she has served as a President for RSG-India for the term 2012-14 and has also been simultaneously involved in volunteering for Student Council-related activities since then including starting up the ISCB-Student Council webinar series program.

Yesid Cuesta Astroz

ISCBSC Webinars Co-chair

Research Interest Research Interest Pathogen genomics, Biological networks, Host-Pathogen interactions.

Neeladri Sen

Communications / Collaborations / Scientific Program Team Member

Neeladri 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.

Abhay Agarwal

Web Developer

Abhay 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.

Nishat Tamanna

Scientific Program / Website Content Team Member

Research Interest Research Interest Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology.