Dr.Suresh Kumar
CV
EDUCATION
2006-Present – PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Vienna, Austria
2003-2005- MSc in Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, India
1998-2002- BSc in Agriculture, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Ph.D thesis work
Topic: Likelihood of protein structure determination
Position:PhD student, University of Vienna, Austria
Completion date: August 2006 – January 2010
Research training
Topic: Implementation of Computational Pipeline for Musa ESTs analysis
Position: Bioinformatician, INIBAP,France
Completion date: July 2005 – December 2005
M.Sc thesis work
Topic: Molecular Biodiversity and Banana Genomics: Anonymous markers, Gene
Analysis and Access
Position: Visiting researcher, University of Leicester, UK
Completion date: January – May 2005
M.Sc summer training
Topic: Remote homolog identification of GAGA protein in Mouse
Position: Summer trainee, Centre for cellular and Molecular Biology, India
Completion date: May -July 2004
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 (July – December) – Bioinformatician, Musa Genome Project, International
Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP), France
2005 (January – May) – Visiting researcher, Department of Biology, University of
Leicester, U.K
2004 (May- July) – summer trainee, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, India
HONORS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2006- Present – International PhD fellowship from Austrian Genome Programme (GENAU),
Bioinformatics Integration Network (BIN-II)
2009 (July) -The European Science Foundation summer school scholarship for Plant
Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Summer School, University of
Nottingham, UK (declined)
2005 (June – December) – Generation Challenge Programme training fellowship
2005 (September) – GCP travel grant
2005 (January – May) – Generation challenge Programme visiting researcher fellowship
SKILLS
Computer Skills
OS: Windows 98 / XP/NT, UNIX / LINUX, SOLARIS
C, PERL, HTML, Java script, Oracle, PHP , Dream weaver MX, Flash MX, Fireworks
MX, MS-office
Bioinformatics software’s & tools
Extensive knowledge on all major sequence, structure database and analysis tools
Molecular Visualization Software: Rasmol, Pymol, Cn3d, VMD, SwissPdbviewer
Molecular modelling & Docking Software: Modeller, Hex, GRAMM
Genetics software: Power marker, structure, Arlequin
Machine learning: Weka package
AFFILIATIONS
Member of International society of Computational Biology
Member of Bioinformatics Society of India
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development
(BIRD’08), July 2008, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
[Poster] Discriminating protein hetro-oligomeric state from amino acid sequences
Structure and Interaction of Biological Macromolecules meeting, MFPL, Vienna,
Austria, 2008
[Poster] Structural Bioinformatics at the MFPL
2nd BIN II PhD workshop-2008, IMP, Vienna, Austria
[Oral & Poster] Discriminating protein hetero-oligomeric state from aminoacid sequences
1st BIN II PhD workshop-2007, IMP, Vienna, Austria
[Oral & Poster] Prediction of crystallizability of gene products
Intrinsically Unfolded Proteins (IUP): Biophysical Characterization and Biological
Significance, 2007, Budapest, Hungary
GCP annual research meeting- 2005, Rome, Italy
[Oral] Implementation of Computational Pipeline for Musa ESTs analysis
[Poster] Validation of conserved orthologous Markers: conserved Genes and Universal
Primers in Bananas and Plantains
Publications
Kumar, S. and O. Carugo (2008). “Consensus prediction of protein conformational
disorder from amino acidic sequence.” Open Biochem J 2: 1-5.
Kirillova, S., S. Kumar, et al. (2009). “Protein domain boundary predictions: a structural
biology perspective.” Open Biochem J 3: 1-8.
Reference available on request
