Webinar Team Members

Neeladri Sen

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.

Carla Luciana Padilla Franzotti

Carla Luciana Padilla Franzotti

Design Team Member

Research Interest Research Interest Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Molecular Dynamics, Linear Motifs, Protein-protein Interactions, Biostatistics.

Selcan Aydin

Selcan Aydin

Scientific Program Team Member

Research Interest Research Interest Quantitative Genetics, Cellular Signaling, Systems Biology, Developmental Biology.

Aayush Grover

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).

Thiliban Manivarma

Thiliban Manivarma

Communications / Scientific Program Team Member

Research 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

Elizabeth Alfaro Espinoza

Design / Website Content / Collaborations / Scientific Program Team Member

Research Interest Research Interest Structural Biology, Protein-Peptide Interactions, Biophysics, Proteomics, Peptidomics.

Khawla Seddiki

Khawla Seddiki

Communications Chair

Khawla Seddiki is a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics Program at Laval University, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Arnaud Droit in the Computational Biology laboratory. His areas of interest include working on the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for real time clinical diagnosis using 1D, 2D, and 3D mass spectrometry data. She started in 2019 as a volunteer in the communication team of the ISCB-Student Council webinar series program.

Ashiq Mahmud

Ashiq Mahmud

Broadcast / Scientific Program Team Member

Research Interest Research Interest Drug discovery, Cancer, HIV, Biofuel production.