Mitali CV 2020

Curriculum Vitae
Mitali Mukerji, PhD, FNASc

& Professor Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)
Date of Birth: 13th November 1967

Nationality: Indian
Place of birth: Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
Contact Details:
Head, Genomics and Molecular Medicine
Room No: 302
CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology
South Campus, Mathura Road,
Opp: Sukhdev Vihar Bus Depot
New Delhi 91-11-110025
Ph. No. 011-29879487, 29879488
e-mail: mitali@igib.res.in
website: www.igib.res.in
Educational qualification:
Degree Year Institute Area

Bachelor 1988 University of Botany, First division
of Allahabad Zoology,
Science Chemistry
Master of 1991 Molecular Plant Molecular CGPA 4/4
Science Biology & Biology, Thesis: Agrobacterium
Biotechnology, Biochemistry & tumefaciens mediated
Indian Genetics transformation of
Agricultural chickpea
Research Supervisor: Dr. Srinivasan
Institute (IARI),
New Delhi
PhD 1997 Developmental Microbial Thesis: Molecular
Biology & Genetics & Mechanism of activation
Genetics Molecular of the cryptic bgl operon
Laboratory, Biology of E.coli
Indian Institute Supervisor: Prof S.
of Science (IISc), Mahadevan
Bangalore
Work Experience:
Designation Period Organization

Scientist Fellow 1/12/ 97 28/3/2000 CBT(now IGIB)
Scientist (C) 29/3/2000 28/3/2003 CBT(now IGIB)
Senior Scientist
29/3/2003 28/3/2006 CSIR-IGIB
(EI)
Principal Scientist
29/3/2006 28/3/2010 CSIR- IGIB
(EII)
Sr. Principal
29/3/2010 28/3/2015 CSIR-IGIB
Scientist (F).
Chief Scientist (G) 29/3/2015 Present CSIR-IGIB
Brief career highlights:

After my PhD (IISc) in 1997, I joined Prof Samir Brahmachari as a Scientist Fellow in
Functional Genomics Unit at CBT and was responsible for setting up the genomics
lab from procurements to establishing high-throughput genotyping and sequencing
and cost effective protocols for rendering sequencing both in house as well
collaborators. We initiated research in SCAs with AIIMS and using a novel population
polymorphism scanning approach demonstrated disease mechanisms, developed
genetic diagnosis for ataxia that has served over 5000 families and identified
founders for SCA1, SCA2, SCA12, SCA3, SCA7, FRDA in India. I also assisted in the
setting up an automated sequencing facility for genetic diagnosis in NIMHANs. As
convener of the Task Force project “Predictive medicine using repeat and single
nucleotide polymorphism” I was primarily responsible for co-ordination and
networking of various scientific activities across six CSIR institutes to develop a
database of Indian Genome Variation. Responsibilities included project planning,
management and implementation, population identification, sample collection and
community engagement, sample management, sequencing, genotyping and primer
synthesis, SNP discovery, validation and analysis, Data QC, IGV data handling,
database and portal development, and global data analysis. This project has provided
the first comprehensive genetic landscape of the Indian population. I was also
responsible for setting up the protocols, manpower, scientific monitoring and
coordination of The Centre for Genomics Application, TCGA (the first PPP in
genomics services) activity with IGIB. I also developed expertise in computational
analysis of genomics data and made key contributions in elucidating role of Alu
repeats for creation of new regulatory networks in human. We have initiated a new
area of research in Ayurgenomics for integrating the principles of Ayurveda with
genomics for P4 medicine. The first project funded by DST also involved field study
in Russia and I led a team for this activity. We provided the first molecular evidence
of Prakriti and discovered a marker for high altitude adaptation. We have established
the CSIR’s Ayurgenomics Unit TRISUTRA for translational research using this
innovative approach in 2011 and as a programme director I have been responsible
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for setting up the unit. I have contributed extensively to manpower development
including teaching in genomics and Ayurgenomics. Many of the frameworks that our
group has initiated/participated are now being used in larger programmes such as
the rare disease programs (GOMED) and (GUARDIAN) at IGIB, national
Ayurgenomics initiatives and also the DBT-Genome India project.
Expertise:
 Plant Molecular Biology

 Microbial molecular genetics
 Human Genomics: High throughput Genomics Platforms for Genotyping and
Expression and Analysis
 Next Generation Exome, genome, transcriptome and metagenome sequencing and
analysis
 Rare Disease Genomics: hereditary ataxia
 Computational & Functional Genomics of Alu repeats in the human genome
 Population Genomics: Indian Genome Variation Consortium
 Development of a novel and unique area of Ayurgenomics
 Genome Annotation
 Human Phenomics and P4 medicine
Awards and Recognitions:

 Awarded Institute Gold Medal for outstanding performance in M.Sc at the Indian
Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (1991).
 Recipient of Junior Research Fellowship of University Grants Commission, India
from August 1991- July 1993.
 Recipient of Senior Research Fellowship of University Grants Commission India
from August 1993 - September 1996.
 Awarded Fellowship for Young Scientist in 16th International Congress of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ( XVI IUBMB) held at New Delhi, India 19-22
September, 1994.
 Best Poster award in the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists
(India) held at Bangalore from November 20-23, 1996.
 Recipient of CSIR Young Scientists’ Award in September 24th 2001.
 Young Women Bioscientist award, Indian National Science Congress 2004.
 Nominated HUGO (Human Genome organization) Member in 2006.
 Recipient of National DBT Young Women Bioscientist award in 2008.
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 Recipient of the national Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Medical Sciences in
2010
 S.S. Katiyar Oration Lecture, Indian National Science Congress 2011
 Pandit Shiv Nath Sharma Shodh Puruskar for research in Ayurveda 2012
 Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 2014
 VASVIK award by Vividhlakshi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra (VASVIK) for
Woman Scientist, 2016
 Kirtan Sanjeevani Pushpalata Ranade National Award for Women in research,
2017
 Board Member of International Human Phenomics Consortium founded by
Jeremy Nicholson, Leroy Hood and Li Jin, 2018
Research Highlights:
My research interest is in the broad area of genome variations and their effect on human
genome organisation and function. The primary aim of my lab is to develop methods using
integrative genomics approaches for identifying informative markers that link to health and
disease states. We have also initiated a new area of Ayurgenomics wherein our team has
provided a novel framework for integration of principles of predictive, prevent and
personalised medicine in Ayurveda with modern medicine using multi-omic technologies.
Salient contributions from our work are highlighted below:
1. Ayurgenomics and its applicability
Primary aim is to develop an integrative system biology framework that would help
apportion human genome variability into constituent axes that are linked to healthy
and disease states. In the Ayurveda, the oldest Indian system of precision medicine,
individuals are classified into different constitution types “Prakriti” based on which
an individual’s health and disease trajectories as well as responsiveness to drug and
environment can be predicted. Our group has been involved in developing a novel
framework of stratified medicine wherein we use diverse “omics” approaches with
phenotyping principles of Ayurveda and objective measures from modern medicine.
We have provided the first evidence of genomic correlates of Prakriti and have also
demonstrated how this approach has been useful in discovery of a predictive marker
for high altitude adaptation as well as thrombotic outcomes in hypoxia. Using
machine learning and advanced statistical approaches our team has been also able to
build predictive models of Prakriti for its global application. Following the leads from
the first proof of concept study in Ayurgenomics we have developed an innovative
framework of Ayurgenomics for translational research in CSIR TRISUTRA Unit at
IGIB. This is a unit with inter-disciplinary approach combining the strengths of
Ayurveda, high throughput genomics, genome informatics, medicine and public
health for developing solutions for affordable health care and also use leads from
Indian Traditional medicine for discoveries.
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2. Genome Variation and Human Disease susceptibility
Our group has been involved in the Indian Genome Variation Consortium (IGVC)
project and carried out extensive studies on SNPs and CNVs in Indian populations and
its comparison with world populations. I have been the convener of the Indian
Genome Variation Consortium project which provided the first comprehensive
genetic landscape of Indian populations. Leads from IGVC project has been used for
tracing human migrations and history of diseases, identifying founders in different
hereditary ataxias, signatures of human adaptations with respect to geo-climatic
conditions and pathogen prevalence and developing genome based diagnostics
primarily in the area of neurodegenerative disorders. I also led the Indian team for
HUGO PanAsian project, which provided insight into peopling of Asia and brought out
relatedness of Indian populations with other Asian populations.
3. Genetics of hereditary ataxia
We have carried our a collaborative research spanning over 20 years with AIIMS,
Delhi and NIMHANs Bangalore in the area of clinically and genetically heterogenous
hereditary ataxias. Our group has been able to develop an algorithm for genetic
diagnostic for rare diseases in Indian population based on our experience in SCAs.
Using population polymorphism scanning approaches we have provided insights into
the mechanism and origin of triplet repeat expansion in hereditary ataxias, identified
founders for different ataxias like SCA1, SCA2, SCA3, SCA7 and SCA12 in the Indian
population, traced mutational histories of many of these through human migrations
etc. We also for the first time carried out exome sequencing in uncharacterized cases
and identified novel mutations in reported as well as novel genes associated with
ataxia. This has led to development of targeted panel of ataxia. We have also built a
resource of biorepository of ataxia including patient specific LCL and iPSc induced
neuronal lines to dissect the biology of ataxia and identify genetic modifiers. AIIMS
has an ataxia clinic and the diagnostic algorithm developed through our initiative has
been useful in classifying over 5000 families that have been referred to AIIMS from
different parts of the country.
4. Repetitive sequences in genome organisation and function
We have used computational and functional genomics approaches to carry out

Functional annotation of primate specific Alu repeats in the human genome: Our
studies at the genome-wide scale have shown that these repeats, are non-randomly
distributed in the genome and transcriptome and can create novel human specific
transcriptional networks through diverse RNA mediated regulatory mechanisms by
providing enhancer elements, miRNA target sites and splice isoform diversity
through exonization, antisense and editing mechanisms. These functional elements
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are being mapped at the genome wide scale and their specific involvement in
integrating stress signals to regulatory networks in being investigated.
Research Support:
1. Project Participant in DBT sponsored “ Programme on Functional Genomics”

from 1998 – 2003
2. Project Convener of CSIR TYFP project on “Principal Investigator Predictive

medicine using single nucleotide and repeat polymorphism” from 2002 to
2007
3. Principal Investigator in an Indo –Russian collaborative DST Sponsored project

on Genotype Phenotype correlation based on Principles of Ayurveda with
special focus on Prakriti from 2003 – 2006
4. Principal Investigator in a DBT sponsored project on “ Disease Genomics:

Identification of predisposition markers and candidate genes for neuropsychiatric
disorders from 2003 to 2006
5. Principal Investigator under the CSIR Young Scientist Award “Human

mitochondrial chip for studies in mitochondria disorders
6. Convenor CSIR supported Supra-Institutional project (2007-2012) “An integrative

approach in deciphering Genotype – Phenotype Correlation Human Complex
Disorders
7. Principal investigator in CSIR supported project on Role of Alu repeats in genome

wide regulation (2007-2012)
8. Principal investigator in CSIR supported project on Ayurgenomics: Integration of

ayurveda with genomics for systems biology approach in predictive and personalized
medicine (2009 -2012)
9. Programme Director and Principal Investigator (Genomics) in CSIR supported

Ayurgenomics Unit (TRISUTRA ) for Translational Research and Innovative Science
Through Ayurgenomics (2011 – 2017)
10. Principal Investigator in a DBT supported “Pediatric Renal Biology Program on

Nephrotic Syndrome subproject entitled “Whole exome analysis for mutations in
genes encoding key podocyte proteins” (2017 – 2022)
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11. Co-PI in an ICMR supported “Advanced Centre for research in Pediatric kidney
diseases to Prof Arvind Bagga, AIIMS (2017 – 2022)
12. Principal Investigator (Genomics) in a Ministry of AYUSH supported Centre of

Excellence for “Applied Development Of Ayurveda Prakriti and Genomics” (2018 –
2021)
13. Co –investigator in a Wellcome funded project on Hypoxia and Pregnancy Study

(HAPS) between AIIMS, SNM, Leh and UCL,London (2016 – 2018)
14. Co-investigator in ICMR supported project to AIIMS entitle Understanding

Pathobiology of Multiple Sclerosis- Biomarkers, Genetic and Phenotypic Signatures (2018
– 2021)
15. Principal Investigator in a DBT supported consortium project on Genome India:

Cataloguing the genetic variation of India Supported by DBT (2020- 2023)
Publications:
Ayurgenomics and its applicability
1. Mukerji, Mitali*, Sagner, Michael, Genomics and Big Data Analytics in Ayurvedic
Medicine (Editorial) Progress in Preventive Medicine: February 21, 2019 doi:
10.1097/
2. Lemonnier, N; Zhou, G; Prasher, B; Mukerji, M; Chen, Z; Brahmachari SK; Noble, D

Auffray, C; Sagner, M, Traditional Knowledge-based Medicine: A Review of History,
Principles, and Relevance in the Present Context of P4 Systems Medicine Progress in
Preventive Medicine: December 2017 - Volume 2 - Issue 7 - p e0011
3. Chauhan NS, Pandey R, Mondal AK, Gupta S, Verma MK, Jain S, Ahmed V, Patil R,
Agarwal D, Girase B, Shrivastava A, Mobeen F, Sharma V, Srivastava TP, Juvekar SK,
Prasher B, Mukerji M#, Dash D Western Indian Rural Gut Microbial Diversity in
Extreme Prakriti Endo-Phenotypes Reveals Signature Microbes. Front Microbiol.
2018 Feb 13;9:118.
4. Kumar Mondal A, Kumar J, Pandey R, Gupta S, Kumar M, Bansal G, Mukerji M, Dash

D, Singh Chauhan N. Comparative Genomics of Host-Symbiont and Free-Living
Oceanobacillus Species. Genome Biol Evol. 2017 May 1;9(5):1175-1182.
5. Tiwari P, Kutum R, Sethi T, Shrivastava A, Girase B, Aggarwal S, Patil R, Agarwal D,

Gautam P, Agrawal A, Dash D, Ghosh S, Juvekar S#, Mukerji M#, Prasher B#.
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Recapitulation of Ayurveda constitution types by machine learning of phenotypic
traits. PLoS One. 2017 Oct 5;12(10):e0185380.
6. Prasher B#, Varma B, Kumar A, Khuntia BK, Pandey R, Narang A, Tiwari P, Kutum R,
Guin D, Kukreti R, Dash D; TRISUTRA Ayurgenomics Consortium, Mukerji M#.
Ayurgenomics for stratified medicine: TRISUTRA consortium initiative across
ethnically and geographically diverse Indian populations. J Ethnopharmacol. 2016
Jul 22. pii: S0378-8741(16)30488-3.
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7. Bhavana Prasher#, Greg Gibson, Mitali Mukerji#Genomic insights into Ayurvedic and
Western approaches to personalized medicine Journal of Genetic J Genet. 2016
Mar;95(1):209-28. Review
8. Aggarwal S, Gheware A, Agrawal A, Ghosh S, Prasher B#, Mukerji M#; Indian Genome
Variation Consortium (2015). Combined genetic effects of EGLN1 and VWF modulate
thrombotic outcome in hypoxia revealed by Ayurgenomics approach. J Transl Med.
2015 Jun 6;13:184.
9. Ahmad T, Kumar M, Mabalirajan U, Pattnaik B, Aggarwal S, Singh R, Singh S, Mukerji

M, Ghosh B, Agrawal A Hypoxia Response in Asthma: Differential Modulation on
Inflammation and Epithelial Injury. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2012 Jul;47(1):1-10
10. Sethi TP, Prasher B#, Mukerji M # Ayurgenomics: a new way of threading molecular
variability for stratified medicine. ACS Chem Biol. 2011 6: 9. 875-880
11. Aggarwal S, Negi S, Jha P, Singh PK, Stobdan T, Pasha MA, Ghosh S, Agrawal A; Indian
Genome Variation Consortium, Prasher B#, Mukerji M# EGLN1 involvement in high-
altitude adaptation revealed through genetic analysis of extreme constitution types
defined in Ayurveda. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010, 107: 44. 18961-18966
12. Bhavana Prasher, Sapna Negi, Shilpi Aggarwal, Amit K Mandal, Tav P Sethi, Shailaja R
Deshmukh, Sudha G Purohit, Shantanu Sengupta, Sangeeta Khanna, Farhan
Mohammad, Gaurav Garg, Samir K Brahmachari, Mitali Mukerji# Whole genome
expression and biochemical correlates of extreme constitutional types defined in
Ayurveda. J Transl Med 2008 6: 09
Genome Variation and Human Disease susceptibility
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13. Narang A, Uppilli B, Vivekanand A, Naushin S, Yadav A, Singhal K, Shamim U, Sharma
P, Zahra S, Mathur A, Seth M, Parveen S, Vats A, Hillman S, Dolma P, Varma B, Jain V;
TRISUTRA Ayurgenomics Consortium, Prasher B, Sengupta S, Mukerji M, Faruq 2020
Frequency spectrum of rare and clinically relevant markers in multiethnic Indian
populations (ClinIndb): A resource for genomic medicine in India..Hum Mutat. Sep 9.
doi: 10.1002/humu.24102
14. Gupta I, Narang A, Singh P, Manchanda V, Khanna S; Indian Genome Variation
Consortium, Mukerji M, Natarajan VT, Dash D. 2019 VitiVar: A locus specific database
of vitiligo associated genes and variations. Gene X. May 11;3:100018.
15. GUaRDIAN Consortium, Sivasubbu S, Scaria V. 2019 Genomics of rare genetic diseases-
experiences from India. Hum Genomics. Sep 25;14(1):52.
16. Grover R, Burse SA, Shankrit S, Aggarwal A, Kirty K, Narta K, Srivastav R, Ray AK, Malik
G, Vats A, Motiani RK, Thukral L, Roy SS, Bhattacharya S, Sharma R, Natarajan K,
Mukerji M, Pandey R, Gokhale RS, Natarajan VT. Myg1 exonuclease couples the
nuclear and mitochondrial translational programs through RNA processing. Nucleic
Acids Res. 2019 Jun 20;47(11):5852-5866.
17. Pragyan Acharya, Rintu Kutum, Rajesh Pandey, Asha Mishra, Rohini Saha, Akshay
Munjal, Vineet Ahuja, Mitali Mukerji and Govind K. Makharia. First Degree Relatives
of Patients with Celiac Disease Harbour an Intestinal Transcriptomic Signature that
Might Protect them from Enterocyte Damage 2018 Clinical and Translational
Gastroenterology. 2018 Oct; 9(10): 195.
18. Thergaonkar RW, Narang A, Gurjar BS, Tiwari P, Puraswani M, Saini H, Sinha A, Varma
B, Mukerji M, Hari P, Bagga A. Targeted exome sequencing in anti-factor H antibody
negative HUS reveals multiple variations. Clin Exp Nephrol. 2017 Sep 22.
19. Naskar T, Faruq M, Banerjee P, Khan M, Midha R, Kumari R, Devasenapathy S, Prajapati
B, Sengupta S, Jain D, Mukerji M, Singh NC, Sinha S Ancestral Variations of the PCDHG
Gene Cluster Predispose to Dyslexia in a Multiplex Family. EBioMedicine. 2018
Feb;28:168-179
20. Gautam P, Chaurasia A, Bhattacharya A, Grover R; Indian Genome Variation
Consortium, Mukerji M#, Natarajan VT Population diversity and adaptive evolution in
keratinization genes: impact of environment in shaping skin phenotypes Molecular
Biology and Evolution 2015 Mar;32(3):555-73
21. Narang A, Jha P, Kumar D, Kutum R, Mondal AK; Indian Genome Variation Consortium,
Dash D, Mukerji M Extensive copy number variations in admixed Indian population
of African ancestry: Potential involvement in adaptation.Genome Biol Evol. 2014 Nov
13. pii: evu250.
22. Petersen DC, Libiger O, Tindall EA, Hardie RA, Hannick LI, Glashoff RH, Mukerji M;
Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Fernandez P, Haacke W, Schork NJ, Hayes VM
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Complex Patterns of Genomic Admixture within Southern Africa. PLOS Genetics
2013 Volume 9 ( Issue 3) e1003309
23. Jha P, Sinha S, Kanchan K, Qidwai T, Narang A, Singh PK, Pati SS, Mohanty S, Mishra SK,
Sharma SK, Awasthi S, Venkatesh V, Jain S, Basu A, Xu S; Indian Genome Variation
Consortium, Mukerji M#, Habib S Deletion of the APOBEC3B gene strongly impacts
susceptibility to falciparum malaria. Infect Genet Evol 2012 12: 1. 142-148
24. Datta S, Chowdhury A, Ghosh M, Das K, Jha P, Colah R, Mukerji M, Majumder PP. A
genome-wide search for non-UGT1A1 markers associated with unconjugated bilirubin
level reveals significant association with a polymorphic marker near a gene of the
nucleoporin family. Ann Hum Genet 2012, 76: 1. 33-41
25. Gautam P, Jha P, Kumar D, Tyagi S, Varma B, Dash D, Mukhopadhyay A; Indian Genome
Variation Consortium, Mukerji M# Spectrum of large copy number variations in 26
diverse Indian populations: potential involvement in phenotypic diversity. Hum
Genet. 2012 Jan;131(1):131-43
26. M Gupta, H Kaur, A Jajodia, S Jain, K Satyamoorthy, M Mukerji, J Thirthalli, R Kukreti
Diverse facets of COMT: from a plausible predictive marker to a potential drug target
for schizophrenia. Current Mol. Med. 2011 11: 9. 732-743
27. Lall M, Thakur S, Puri R, Verma I, Mukerji M, Jha P A 54 Mb 11qter duplication and
0.9 Mb 1q44 deletion in a child with laryngomalacia and agenesis of corpus callosum.
Mol Cytogenet 2011 4: 09
28. Narang A, Jha P, Rawat V, Mukhopadhyay A, Dash D;
Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Basu A, Mukerji M#. Recent admixture in an
Indian population of african ancestry. Am J Hum Genet 2011 89: 1. 111-120
29. Abhimanyu, Mangangcha IR, Jha P, Arora K, Mukerji M, Banavaliker JN; Indian
Genome Variation Consortium, Brahmachari V, Bose M. Differential serum cytokine
levels are associated with cytokine gene polymorphisms in north Indians with active
pulmonary tuberculosis. Infect Genet Evol 2011 11: 5. 1015-1022
30. Narang A, Roy RD, Chaurasia A, Mukhopadhyay A, Mukerji M; Indian Genome
Variation Consortium, Dash D (2010) IGVBrowser--a genomic variation resource from
diverse Indian populations. Database (Oxford) 2010: 09
31. HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium, Abdulla MA, Ahmed I, Assawamakin A, Bhak J,
Brahmachari SK, Calacal GC, Chaurasia A, Chen CH, Chen J, Chen YT, Chu J, Cutiongco-
de la Paz EM, De Ungria MC, Delfin FC, Edo J, Fuchareon S, Ghang H, Gojobori T, Han J,
Ho SF, Hoh BP, Huang W, Inoko H, Jha P, Jinam TA, Jin L, Jung J, Kangwanpong D,
Kampuansai J, Kennedy GC, Khurana P, Kim HL, Kim K, Kim S, Kim WY, Kimm K, Kimura
R, Koike T, Kulawonganunchai S, Kumar V, Lai PS, Lee JY, Lee S, Liu ET, Majumder PP,
Mandapati KK, Marzuki S, Mitchell W, Mukerji M, Naritomi K, Ngamphiw C, Niikawa
N, Nishida N, Oh B, Oh S, Ohashi J, Oka A, Ong R, Padilla CD, Palittapongarnpim P,
Perdigon HB, Phipps ME, Png E, Sakaki Y, Salvador JM, Sandraling Y, Scaria V, Seielstad
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M, Sidek MR, Sinha A, Srikummool M, Sudoyo H, Sugano S, Suryadi H, Suzuki Y,
Tabbada KA, Tan A, Tokunaga K, Tongsima S, Villamor LP, Wang E, Wang Y, Wang H,
Wu JY, Xiao H, Xu S, Yang JO, Shugart YY, Yoo HS, Yuan W, Zhao G, Zilfalil BA; Indian
Genome Variation Consortium. Mapping human genetic diversity in Asia. Science.
2009 Dec 11;326(5959):1541-5.
32. Hardy BJ, Séguin B, Singer PA, Mukerji M, Brahmachari SK, Daar AS From diversity to
delivery: the case of the Indian Genome Variation initiative. Nat Rev Genet 2008 9
Suppl 1: S9-14
33. Indian Genome Variation Consortium Genetic landscape of the people of India: a
canvas for disease gene exploration. J Genet 2008 87: 1. 3-20 Apr As a lead
consortium author
Genetics of hereditary ataxia
34. Shakya S, Kumari R, Suroliya V, Tyagi N, Joshi A, Garg A, Singh I, Kalikavil Puthanveedu
D, Cherian A, Mukerji M, Srivastava AK, Faruq M. Whole exome and targeted gene
sequencing to detect pathogenic recessive variants in early onset cerebellar ataxia.
Clin Genet. 2019 Dec;96(6):566-574. doi: 10.1111/cge.13625. Epub 2019 Sep 1.
35. Kumar D, Hussain A, Srivastava AK, Mukerji M, Mukherjee O, Faruq M Generation of
three spinocerebellar ataxia type-12 patients derived induced pluripotent stem cell
lines (IGIBi002-A, IGIBi003-A and IGIBi004-A). Stem Cell Res. 2018 Aug;31:216-221.
36. Kumari R, Kumar D, Brahmachari SK, Srivastava AK, Faruq M, Mukerji M# Paradigm
for disease deconvolution in rare neurodegenerative disorders in Indian population:
insights from studies in cerebellar ataxias. J Genet. 2018 Jul;97(3):589-609.
37. Faruq M, Magaña JJ, Suroliya V, Narang A, Murillo-Melo NM, Hernández-Hernández O,
Srivastava AK, Mukerji M. A Complete Association of an intronic SNP rs6798742 with
Origin of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 7-CAG Expansion Loci in the Indian and Mexican
Population. Ann Hum Genet. 2017 Sep;81(5):197-204.
38. Faruq M, Srivastava AK, Singh S, Gupta R, Dada T, Garg A, Behari M, Mukerji M.
Spinocerebellar ataxia 7 (SCA7) in Indian population: predilection of ATXN7-CAG
expansion mutation in an ethnic population.Indian J Med Res. 2015 Feb;141(2):187-
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39. M Faruq, A Narang, R Kumari, R Pandey, A Garg, M Behari, D Dash, AK Srivastava, M
Mukerji#. Novel mutations in typical and atypical genetic loci through exome
sequencing in autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia families Clinical Genetics
Oct;86(4):335-41
40. Singh I, Faruq M, Mukherjee O, Jain S, Pal PK, Srivastav MV, Behari M, Srivastava AK,
Mukerji M#. North and South Indian populations share a common ancestral origin of
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Friedreich's ataxia but vary in age of GAA repeat expansion. Ann Hum Genet 2010
74: 3. 202-210
41. Bahl S, Ahmed I; Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Mukerji M# . Utilizing linkage
disequilibrium information from Indian Genome Variation Database for mapping
mutations: SCA12 case study. J Genet 2009 88: 1. 55-60
42. Faruq M, Scaria V, Singh I, Tyagi S, Srivastava AK, Mukerji M# SCA-LSVD: a repeat-
oriented locus-specific variation database for genotype to phenotype correlations in
spinocerebellar ataxias. Hum Mutat 2009 30: 7. 1037-1042
43. M Netravathi, Pramod Kumar Pal, Meera Purushottam, Kandavel Thennarasu, Mitali
Mukherjee, Sanjeev Jain Spinocerebellar ataxias types 1, 2 and 3: age adjusted clinical
severity of disease at presentation correlates with size of CAG repeat lengths. J
Neurol Sci 2009 277: 1-2. 83-86
44. Bhardwaj A, Mukerji M, Sharma S, Paul J, Gokhale CS, Srivastava AK, Tiwari S
MtSNPscore: a combined evidence approach for assessing cumulative impact of
mitochondrial variations in disease. BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10 Suppl 8: 08
45. S Bahl, K Virdi, U Mittal, M P Sachdeva, A K Kalla, S E Holmes, E O'Hearn, R L Margolis,
S Jain, A K Srivastava, M Mukerji# Evidence of a common founder for SCA12 in the
Indian population. Ann Hum Genet 2005 69: Pt 5. 528-534
46. Mittal U, Roy S, Jain S, Srivastava AK, Mukerji M# Post-zygotic de novo trinucleotide
repeat expansion at spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 locus: evidence from an Indian
family. J Hum Genet 2005 50: 3. 155-157 03
47. Krishna N, Mohan S, Yashavantha BS, Rammurthy A, Kiran Kumar HB, Mittal U, Tyagi
S, Mukerji M, Jain S, Pal PK, Purushottam M SCA 1, SCA 2 & SCA 3/MJD mutations in
ataxia syndromes in southern India. Indian J Med Res 2007 126: 5. 465-470
48. Mittal U, Srivastava AK, Jain S, Jain S, Mukerji M Arch Neurol. 2005 Jul;62(7):1143
Founder haplotype for Machado-Joseph disease in the Indian population: novel
insights from history and polymorphism studies. Arch Neurol 2005 62: 4. 637-640
49. Verma R, Mukerji M, Grover D, B-Rao C, Das SK, Kubendran S, Jain S, Brahmachari SK
MLC1 gene is associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Southern India.
Biol Psychiatry 2005 58: 1. 16-22
50. Mittal U, Sharma S, Chopra R, Dheeraj K, Pal PK, Srivastava AK, Mukerji M# Insights
into the mutational history and prevalence of SCA1 in the Indian population through
anchored polymorphisms. Hum Genet 2005 118: 1. 107-114
51. Pandey N, Mittal U, Srivastava AK, Mukerji M#. SMARCA2 and THAP11: potential
candidates for polyglutamine disorders as evidenced from polymorphism and
protein-folding simulation studies. J Hum Genet 2004 49: 11. 596-602 09
52. Ragothaman M, Sarangmath N, Chaudhary S, Khare V, Mittal U, Sharma S,
Komatireddy S, Chakrabarti S, Mukerji M, Juyal RC, Thelma BK, Muthane UB Complex
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phenotypes in an Indian family with homozygous SCA2 mutations. Ann Neurol 2004
55: 1. 130-133
53. S Choudhry, M Mukerji, A K Srivastava, S Jain, S K Brahmachari CAG repeat instability
at SCA2 locus: anchoring CAA interruptions and linked single nucleotide
polymorphisms. Hum Mol Genet 2001 10: 21. 2437-2446
54. Mukerji M, Choudhry S, Saleem Q, Padma MV, Maheshwari MC, Jain S Molecular
analysis of Friedreich's ataxia locus in the Indian population. Acta Neurol Scand. 2000
Oct;102(4):227-9.
55. Q Saleem, S Choudhry, M Mukerji, L Bashyam, M V Padma, A Chakravarthy, M C
Maheshwari, S Jain, S K Brahmachari Molecular analysis of autosomal dominant
hereditary ataxias in the Indian population: high frequency of SCA2 and evidence for
a common founder mutation. Hum Genet 2000 106: 2. 179-187
Repetitive sequences in genome organisation and function
56. Pandey R, Bhattacharya A, Bhardwaj V, Jha V, Mandal AK, Mukerji M# Alu-miRNA

interactions modulate transcript isoform diversity in stress response and reveal
signatures of positive selection. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 2;6:32348.
57. Goenka A, Sengupta S, Pandey R, Parihar R, Mohanta GC, Mukerji M, Ganesh S. Human
satellite-III non-coding RNAs modulate heat-shock-induced transcriptional
repression. J Cell Sci. 2016 Oct 1;129(19):3541-3552.
58. Mandal AK, Pandey R, Jha V, Mukerji M#. Transcriptome-wide expansion of non-
coding regulatory switches: evidence from co-occurrence of Alu exonization, antisense
and editing. Nucleic Acids Research, 2013, 41 (4) 1–17 2121–2137.
59. Pandey R, Mandal AK, Jha V, Mukerji M#. Heat shock factor binding in Alu repeats expands its
involvement in stress through an antisense mechanism. Genome Biol 2012 12: 11. R117
60. Pandey R, Mukerji M#. From 'JUNK' to just unexplored noncoding knowledge: the
case of transcribed Alus. Brief Funct Genomics 2011 10: 5. 294-311
61. Shankar R, Kataria B, Mukerji M. Finding Alu in primate genomes with AF-1.
Bioinformation 2009 3: 7. 287-288 02
62. Shankar R, Chaurasia A, Ghosh B, Chekmenev D, Cheremushkin E, Kel A, Mukerji M#
Non-random genomic divergence in repetitive sequences of human and chimpanzee
in genes of different functional categories. Mol Genet Genomics 2007 277: 4. 441-
455
63. Rawal P, Kummarasetti VB, Ravindran J, Kumar N, Halder K, Sharma R, Mukerji M, Das
SK, Chowdhury S.Genome-wide prediction of G4 DNA as regulatory motifs: role in
Escherichia coli global regulation. Genome Res 2006 16: 5. 644-655
64. Grover D, Kannan K, Brahmachari SK, Mukerji M#. ALU-ring elements in the primate
genomes. Genetica 2005 124: 2-3. 273-289
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65. Shankar R, Grover D, Brahmachari SK, Mukerji M# Evolution and distribution of RNA
polymerase II regulatory sites from RNA polymerase III dependant mobile Alu
elements. BMC Evol Biol 2004 4: 1.
66. Grover D, Mukerji M, Bhatnagar P, Kannan K, Brahmachari SK Alu repeat analysis in
the complete human genome: trends and variations with respect to genomic
composition. Bioinformatics 2004 20: 6. 813-817
67. Grover D, Majumder PP, B Rao C, Brahmachari SK, Mukerji M# Nonrandom
distribution of alu elements in genes of various functional categories: insight from
analysis of human chromosomes 21 and 22. Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 9. 1420-1424
68. Chauhan C, Dash D, Grover D, Rajamani J, Mukerji M# Origin and instability of GAA
repeats: insights from Alu elements. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2002 20: 2. 253-263
Cryptic operon in E.coli
69. M Mukerji, S Mahadevan (1997) Cryptic genes:evolutionary puzzles J. Genet

76:2.147-159
70. M Mukerji, S Mahadevan (1997) Characterization of the negative elements involved
in silencing the bgl operon of Escherichia coli: possible roles for DNA gyrase, H-NS, and
CRP-cAMP in regulation. Mol Microbiol 24: 3. 617-627
71. J Singh, M Mukerji, S Mahadevan (1995) Transcriptional activation of the Escherichia
coli bgl operon: negative regulation by DNA structural elements near the promoter.
Mol Microbiol 17: 6. 1085-1092 Joint first author
As an Indian Genome Variation Consortium author
72. Talwar P, Kanojia N, Mahendru S, Baghel R, Grover S, Arora G, Grewal GK, Parween S,
Srivastava A, Singh M, Vig S, Kushwaha S, Sharma S,
Bal K, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Kukreti S, Kukreti R. Genetic
contribution of CYP1A1 variant on treatment outcome in epilepsy patients: a
functional and interethnic perspective. Pharmacogenomics J. 2017 Jun;17(3):242-
251.
73. Kanchan K, Pati SS, Mohanty S, Mishra SK, Sharma SK, AwasthiS, Indian Genome
Variation Consortium, Venkatesh V, Habib S. Polymorphisms in host genes encoding
NOSII, C-reactive protein, and adhesion molecules thrombospondin and E-selectin are
risk factors for Plasmodium falciparum malaria in India. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect
Dis. 2015 Oct;34(10):2029-39. doi: 10.1007/s10096-015-2448-0. Epub 2015 Jul 21.
74. Mitra AK, Singh A, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, RathSK. LIG1
polymorphisms: the Indian scenario. J Genet. 2014 Aug;93(2):459-69.
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75. Giri AK, Khan NM, Grover S, Kaur I, Basu A, Tandon N, Scaria V, Consortium IGV,
INDICO, Kukreti R, Brahmachari SK, Bharadwaj D. Genetic epidemiology
of pharmacogeneticvariations in CYP2C9, CYP4F2 and VKORC1 genes associated with
warfarin dosage in the Indian population. Pharmacogenomics. 2014
Jul;15(10):1337-54.
76. Singh A, Sharma P, Kar HK, Sharma VK, Tembhre MK, Gupta S, Laddha NC, Dwivedi M,
Begum R, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Gokhale RS, Rani R. HLA alleles
and amino-acid signatures of the peptide-binding pockets of HLA molecules in vitiligo.
J Invest Dermatol. 2012 Jan;132(1):124-34.
77. Abhimanyu, Bose M, Jha P, Indian Genome Variation Consortium. Footprints
of genetic susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis: cytokine gene variants in
north Indians. Indian J Med Res. 2012 May;135(5):763-70.
78. 22. Goswami R, Singh A, Gupta N, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Rani
R. Presence of strong association of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class
I allele HLA-A*26:01 with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism. J Clin Endocrinol Metab.
2012 Sep;97(9):E1820-4.
79. Chaki M, Sengupta M, Mondal M, Bhattacharya A, Mallick S, Bhadra R, Indian
Genome Variation Consortium, Ray K. Molecular and functional studies
of tyrosinase variants among Indian oculocutaneous albinism type 1 patients.
J Invest Dermatol. 2011 Jan;131(1):260-2.
80. Saha A, Nayak S, Mani KR, Chandak GR, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Ray
K, Mukhopadhyay A. A set of five microsatellite markers linked to F8 gene can
detect haemophilia A carriers across India. Haemophilia. 2011 Sep;17(5):e928-35.
81. Sengupta M, Chakraborty A, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Ray K. Analysis
of single nucleotide polymorphisms of PRNP gene in twenty-four ethnic groups of
India. J Genet. 2010 Aug;89(2):247-51.
82. Sinha S, Arya V, Agarwal S, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Habib S.
Genetic differentiation of populations residing in areas of high malaria endemicity in
India. J Genet. 2009 Apr;88(1):77-80.
83. 15. Bahl S, Ahmed I, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Mukerji M. Utilizing
linkage disequilibrium information from Indian Genome Variation Database for
mapping mutations: SCA12 case study. J Genet. 2009 Apr;88(1):55-60.
84. Kumar J, Garg G, Kumar A, Sundaramoorthy E, Sanapala KR, Ghosh
S, Karthikeyan G, Ramakrishnan L, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Sengupta S.
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in homocysteine metabolism pathway genes:
association of CHDH A119C and MTHFR C677T
with hyperhomocysteinemia. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2009Dec;2(6):599 606.
85. 27. Sinha S, Qidwai T, Kanchan K, Anand P, Jha GN, Pati SS, Mohanty S, Mishra
SK, Tyagi PK, Sharma SK, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Venkatesh V, Habib S.
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Variations in host genes encoding adhesion molecules and susceptibility tofalciparum
malaria in India. Malar J. 2008 Dec 4;7:250.
86. 28. Bhattacharjee A, Banerjee D, Mookherjee S, Acharya M, Banerjee A, Ray A, Sen
A, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Ray K. Leu432Val polymorphism in CYP1B1
as a susceptible factor towards predisposition to primary open-angle
glaucoma. Mol Vis. 2008 May 8;14:841-50.
87. 29. Sinha S, Mishra SK, Sharma S, Patibandla PK, Mallick PK, Sharma
SK, Mohanty S, Pati SS, Mishra SK, Ramteke BK, Bhatt R, Joshi H, Dash AP, Ahuja
RC, Awasthi S, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Venkatesh V, Habib S.
Polymorphisms ofTNF-enhancer and gene for FcgammaRIIa correlate with the
severity of falciparum malaria in the ethnically diverse Indian population. Malar J.
2008 Jan 14;7:13.
88. 16. Saha A, Mukherjee S, Maulik M, Chandak GR, Indian Genome Variation
Consortium, Ray K. Evaluation of genetic markers linked to hemophilia A
locus: an Indian experience. Haematologica. 2007 Dec;92(12):1725-6.
89. 17. Biswas A, Maulik M, Das SK, Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Ray K, Ray
J. Parkin polymorphisms: risk for Parkinson's disease in Indian population. ClinGenet.
2007 Nov;72(5):484-6. PubMed PMID: 17935510.
90. Gupta A, Maulik M, Nasipuri P, Chattopadhyay I, Das SK, Gangopadhyay PK, Indian
Genome Variation Consortium, Ray K. Molecular diagnosis of Wilson disease using
prevalent mutations and informative single-nucleotide polymorphism
markers. Clin Chem. 2007 Sep;53(9):1601-8.
91. Mahajan A, Chavali S, Ghosh S, Kabra M, Chowdhury MR, Indian Genome Variation
Consortium, Bharadwaj D. Allelic heterogeneity of molecular events in human
coagulation factor IX in Asian Indians. Mutation in brief #965. Online. Hum Mutat.
2007 May;28(5):526.
92. Indian Genome Variation Consortium The Indian Genome Variation database
(IGVdb): a project overview.Hum Genet. 2005 Oct;118(1):1-11..
As a HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium author
93. Hatin WI, Nur-Shafawati AR, Etemad A, Jin W, Qin P, Xu S, Jin L, Tan SG, Limprasert P,
Feisal MA, Rizman-Idid M, Zilfalil BA; HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium A genome
wide pattern of population structure and admixture in peninsular Malaysia Malays.
Hugo J. 2014 Dec;8(1):5.
94. Yang JO, Hwang S, Kim WY, Park SJ, Kim SC, Park K, Lee B; HUGO Pan-Asian SNP
Consortium.Identification of ethnically specific genetic variations in pan-asian ethnos.
Genomics Inform. 2014 Mar;12(1):42-7.
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95. Jinam TA, Phipps ME, Saitou N; Hugo Pan-Asian SNP Consortium Admixture patterns
and genetic differentiation in negrito groups from West Malaysia estimated from
genome-wide SNP data.Hum Biol. 2013 Feb-Jun;85(1-3):173-88.
96. Jinam TA, Hong LC, Phipps ME, Stoneking M, Ameen M, Edo J; HUGO Pan-Asian SNP
Consortium, Saitou N. Evolutionary history of continental southeast Asians: "early
train" hypothesis based on genetic analysis of mitochondrial and autosomal DNA data.
Mol Biol Evol. 2012 Nov;29(11):3513-27.
97. Xu S, Pugach I, Stoneking M, Kayser M, Jin L; HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium Genetic
dating indicates that the Asian-Papuan admixture through Eastern Indonesia
corresponds to the Austronesian expansion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Mar
20;109(12):4574-9.
98. Yang X, Xu S; HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium; Indian Genome Variation Consortium.
Identification of close relatives in the HUGO Pan-Asian SNP database. PLoS One.
2011;6(12):e29502.
99. Ngamphiw C, Assawamakin A, Xu S, Shaw PJ, Yang JO, Ghang H, Bhak J, Liu E, Tongsima
S; HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium. PanSNPdb: the Pan-Asian SNP genotyping
database.PLoS One. 2011;6(6):e21451.
100. Hatin WI, Nur-Shafawati AR, Zahri MK, Xu S, Jin L, Tan SG, Rizman-Idid M,
Zilfalil BA; HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium Population genetic structure of
peninsular Malaysia Malay sub-ethnic groups. PLoS One. 2011 Apr 5;6(4):e18312.
101. Xu S, Kangwanpong D, Seielstad M, Srikummool M, Kampuansai J, Jin L; HUGO
Pan-Asian SNP Consortium. Genetic evidence supports linguistic affinity of Mlabri--a
hunter-gatherer group in Thailand. BMC Genet. 2010 Mar 19;11:18.
Patents:
a. A US patent granted for US PTO application No: 09/707,919 filed on Nov 8,

2000. Patent No. 6623927
A method of detection for human spinocerebellar ataxia 2 gene variants

Inventors Samir K. Brahmachari, Shweta Choudhry, Mitali Mukerji
and Satish Jain
b. An Indian, US and WO patent filed for Novel allelic variant of cyp2c19

associated with drug metabolism. Brahmachari S K, Ravina Fernandes, Sharma
Nitin, Suparna Martis, Kukreti R, Mukerji M
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c. A US patent issued on January 30, 2014f or US PTO application No: 09/707,919
filed on October 13, 2011. Patent No. 20140030709 and EA, RU Patent No.
023630, issued on Jan 30th, 2016
Biomarker for Detecting High-Altitude Adaptation and High-Altitude

Pulmonary Edema
Inventors: Bhavana Prasher, Shilpi Aggarwal, Mohammed Abdul
Qadar Pasha, Mitali Mukerji
Book Chapters
1. Mohd. Faruq, Uma Mittal, Achal K. Srivastava and Mitali Mukerji, Hereditary
Spinocerebellar Ataxias in India, in Genomics and Health in the developing world ,
2012, Ch 88, 1039 -1088, Ed. Dhavendra Kumar, Oxford Univ Press, UK
2. Mitali Mukerji and Bhavana Prasher, Genomics and Traditional Indian Ayurvedic
Medicine, in Genomics and Society: Ethical, Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic
Implications 2016, Ch 14, 271-292 Ed. Ed Dhavendra Kumar and Ruth Chadwick,
Elsevier Inc.
3. Mitali Mukerji, Beena Pillai, Somdutta Sen and Samir K. Brahmachari, Genomics and
Functional Genomics, in Textbook Of Biotechnology (2004, 2007) Ed. H.K.Das, John
Wiley & Sons, 2004
Copyrights:
4. Questionnaire for Control samples during genetic studies Samir K Brahmachari,

Balaram Ghosh, Mitali Mukerji. Filed for copyright on 27/11/2001, CR 22/2001
5. Questionnaire for Prakruti assessment. Samir K Brahmachari, Bhavana Prasher,

Shilpi Aggarwal, Sapna Negi, Mitali Mukerji
Reg No. SW-2284/2005, Reg Date 13-May-05
6. High Throughput – sequence, screening and SNP (HT-SSS). Mitali Mukerji Debasis
Dash, Dipayan Dasgupta, Siddharth Bisht, S. K. Brahmachari
Joint copyright application (CSIR and Silicogene Informatics) CR-31/2005.
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Invited lectures/oral presentations in International Symposia:
1. Invited lecture in Asia-Pacific Congress of Clinical Biochemistry, Jaipur, November

17th 2019
2. Plenary speaker in 8th International Chefs Conference organized by Indian federation
of culinary association (IFCA) on 3rd October 2019, Delhi
3. Plenary speaker in 2nd Ayurveda Developmental Therapeutics Program (ADTP)
Meeting Pune, Friday, February 8th 2019
4. Plenary speaker in 2nd Internation Conference on Huuman Phenomics held in Fudan
University, Shanghai Oct 30th to 3rd Nov 2018
5. International meet on frontiers in life science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar,
March 22, 2018
6. Traditional Health Knowledge Inspired Nutraceuticals, Transdisciplinary
University Bengaluru. March 6, 2018,
7. International conference on genome biology and informatics in health sciences,
SASTRA University, Tanjore, March 2018
8. Keynote address At Tradmed International 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka 23rd
November 2017 on Translational research and Innovative science insights from
TRISUTRA consortium
9. Indo-Japan Information exchange – diagnostic technologies under the auspices of The
International Promotion of Japan’s healthcare and services , Hyatt Regency, Delhi
06th Oct 2017
10. NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT) Conference in
Bhubeneshwar, Oct 2rd-4th, 2017,
11. NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT) Conference in
Cochin from Oct 3rd-5th,2016, , India
12. Plenary lecture in 6th International Symposium on Translational Cancer Research –
Prevention and Treatment of Cancer: Hypes and Hopes” at Hyatt Regency,
Ahmedabad in February 04-07, 2016, Gujarat
13. International Seminar on “Promotion, Prevention and Pacification: Ayurvedic
Landscape” at Science City Auditorium, Kolkata and J B Roy State Ayurvedic Medical
College & Hospital on 09th Feb, 2016
14. In School of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) “From Bench to
Bedside: Translational Neuroscience Research in Healthy Brain Aging and
Neurological Disorders” held at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka,
16th December 2015.
15. As resource personnel for the natural Product Symposium on Movement Disorders
held at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka from 19th -20th December
2015
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16. On Ayurgenomics : An integrative genomics approach for partitioning the human
genome variability for stratified medicine 14th FAOBMB Congress in Hyderabad, 27-
30 November, 2015
17. On “Applicability of basal variation data from the Indian Genome
Variation Consortium database: a platform for predictive medicine” NextGen
Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT) Conference at
Hyderabad, 1st - 3rd October 2015,
18. “Bridging the gap from genotype to phenotype” during the visit of Prof Eric Lander
as a part of TNQ-Cell Press initiative National Institute of Immunology on February
23, 2015
19. “Novel regulatory networks in the human transcriptome through Alu RNA
exaptation” in 5th Asian Chromatin Meeting to be held in JNCASR, Bangalore in
January January 15th – 18th, 2015.
20. Sixth Science Conclave at IIIT Allahabad, Dec 8th-15th 2015
21. Next-Gen Genomics & Bioinformatics Technologies (NGBT) Conference (NGBT 2014)
held in NIMHANS Bangalore from Nov 17th-19th 2014.
22. Genomics through Ayurveda Prism (about TRISUTRA Unit) at the
research conclave “Ayurveda Inspired Discovery”, held as part of the Sixth World
Ayurveda Congress (WAC) on 7th Nov 2014 TRISUTRA:
23. Invited lecture in Indo-German Workshop on Diagnostics of Translational Genome
Sequencing in Clinical and Public Health Microbiology to be held at The Madras
Medical Mission, Chennai from 19 to 21 March 2014.
24. International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Challenges in Neuroscience &
XXXI Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neurosciences held at Allahabad, India
from October 25 – 27, 2013
25. 7th Annual Convention of ABAP & International Conference on Plant Biotechnology,
Molecular Medicine & Human Health held at Delhi University, South Campus from
October 18-20, 2013
26. International Conference on Next Revolution in Genetics & Genomics -Applications in
Health and Disease, held at New Delhi, 27-29, January, 2013
27. Indian centenary Science Congress, January 6th 2013 at Kolkata
28. 38th annual conference of the Indian Society of Human Genetics and International
symposium on Developmental and Complex Disorders, Banaras Hindu University in
Varanasi from 9th to 11th December, 2012
29. 10th Asia- Pacific Conference on Human Genetics in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5th
-8th Dec 2012
30. 2012 International NGS and Bioinfomatics for Genomics and Health Care, held in IIT
Chennai from November 1-3, 2012
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31. Genomeet, 2012, held at CSIR-IGIB, Delhi from 30th December 2011 – 1st January
2012
32. Genentech, South San Francisco, USA Oct 21st, 2011
33. . National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA October 19, 2011
34. Department of Environmental Health Sciences , Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Johns Hopkins University, October 17, 2011
35. CSIR-Mayo joint symposium, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota October 11-16,
2011,
36. Fourth Indo-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium in Arnold and Beckman
Centre, National Academy of Science, California Irvine on April 18-20 2011
37. 4th World Ayurveda Congress Bangalore, 2010
38. XIVth International Human Genome Meeting (HGM2009), Montpellier, 2010
39. International Symposium on “Role of Genomics in clinical practice and XXXV Annual
Conference of ISHG, SGPGI, Lucknow, 2010
40. Pre- conference workshop on advances in genomic techniques as a part of 4th
International conference on birth defects and disabilities in the developing world
AIIMS, New Delhi 2009
41. Korean BioInformation Center, Daejeon, Korea on 23rd April, 2009
42. International symposium of constitutional medicine, Korean Institute of Oriental
medicine, Daejeon, Korea , 2009
43. International Symposium on “Ethics, Culture and Population Genomics and XXXIV
Annual Conference of ISHG, Delhi, 2009
44. XIIIth International Human Genome Meeting (HGM2008), Hyderabad, 2008
45. Human Variome Project Forum of the XIIIth International Human Genome meeting
(HGM2008) Hyderabad , 2008.
46. 3rd World Ayurveda Congress NIA, Jaipur, 2008
47. IXth International symposium on mutations in the Genome (Mutation Detection
2007), Xiamen, China, 2007
48. Trends in Human Genetics, Puri , 2007
49. International Symposium on “Human Genomics and Public Health” and XXXI Annual
Conference of ISHG, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,2006
50. Indo Taiwan workshop on Functional Genomics, New Delhi, 2005
51. International conference on Genes, Evolution and Complex Diseases, NCBS Bangalore
2005
52. Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing, China, 2004
53. Sino-India Workshop on Genome Informatics at the Watson Institute of Genome
Sciences of Zhejiang University/Hangzhou, 2004.
54. 10th Congress of Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular
Biologist (FAOBMB) Bangalore, 2003
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55. International symposium on Molecular Toxicology and Environmental Health
Lucknow, 2003
56. SNPs in the Asia Pacific region (SNPAPR), Queensland Institute of Medical Research,
Brisbane, 2003
57. 4th HUGO Pacific-meeting and 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Genetics
Pattaya, Thailand, 2002
58. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, June 2002.
Invited lectures in National Meetings and symposia:
1. Invited lecture in the Training program in Traditional Medicine- Modern approaches

for affordable and accessible healthcare, Amity University, Feb 2020
2. Invited speaker in Ashoka University Delhi, February 2020
3. Invited speaker in Computational Gastronomy, 21st December 2019, IIIT Delhi
4. Invited speaker in workshop on Indian population: health and scope of research in
Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, April 23rd 2019.
5. Invited speaker in Indian Culinary forum knowledge summit organized by Galgotia
University Genomics in quest for “THE” perfect diet” by Indian Culinary forum and
Galgotia University, March 18, 2019
6. Plenary speaker in the International Seminar of the International AYUSH Conclave,
organized by the Government of Kerala from February 15 to 18, 2019 at
Thiruvananthapuram
7. Plenary speaker in 2nd Ayurveda Developmental Therapeutics Program (ADTP) Meeting
Pune, Friday, February 8th 2019 Ayurgenomics: An operational framework for integration of
trisutra concepts in P4 medicine
8. Keynote speaker in a 5-day training program on “Traditional Medicine- Modern
approaches for affordable and accessible healthcare” sponsored by DST (Department
of Science & Technology) on 4th February 2019 at Amity University, Noida Trisutra
9. CME on Chronic Kidney Disease, at AIIA, Delhi, organised by All India P.G. Scholar ‘s
Association, Feb. 2019
10. Guest of Honor and plenary speaker at the inaugural function in National seminar at
Amrita School of Ayurveda “PRAJNANAM” 2019, on February 2nd 2019 at Amrita
School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus
11. Invited member of the Biological Engineering Discipline Advisory Board, IIT
Gandhinagar.
12. Invited speaker in Genomics India Conference 2019 on 24-25 January , 2019
13. Invited speaker in Symposium on computational gastronomy held at IIIT Delhi 8th
December 2018
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14. One Day Symposium on Computational Gastronomy organised by IIIT Delhi
December 8th 2018
15. Half Day Genomics Workshop, NIT Durgapur October 4th 2018
16. Annual Madras Medical Mission Genetics Meeting (3MGM 2018) Chennai, during 7-9
September 2018.
17. Workshop on “Translational Research in Biomedical and Agricultural Science” held at
Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi and the Indian Society of
Translational Research are on 6th and 7th July 2018.
18. Symposium on Computational Gastronomy: The emerging data science of food,
flavors & health, 17th March 2018 IIIT-Delhi.
19. The Emerging Role of Genomics in Clinical Diagnosis under the auspices of (Indo-
Japan Information Exchange-Diagnostic Technologies) held at CSIR-IGIB, February
2018
20. National Symposium on Functional Genomics” held from 13th -14th October 2017 at
Transdisciplinary University, Bengaluru
21. Sri Devraj Urs Academy of higher education and research, Kolar, Karnataka on 17th
May 2017
22. 42nd annual meeting of Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG2017), Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2-4th March 2017
23. Conference on Ächievements of women in science and technology; current scenario
and future trends, 13-14 January 2017, Dept of Chemistry, Panjab University,
Chandigarh
24. 3rd International & 12th National seminar of Association of Ayurvedic practitioners
(AAPCON 2016) Sunday’’ on 08th january 2017, at Aspee auditorium, Mumbai
25. Tadvidya Sambhasha” Venue: Nehru Science Centre auditorium Date: 8th Oct 2016
26. “Joint AYUSH-ICMR Mission on developing a drug from leads available under AYUSH”
held on 14th March 2016 at Indian Council of Medical Research, Deptt. of Health
Research, V.Ramalingaswami Bhawan, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi.
27. Indian Academy of Sciences meeting held in IISER Pune 5-8th November 2015
Ayurgenomics: Understanding human individuality through integration of Ayurveda
and Genomics for stratified medicine
28. Invited by CCRAS, Ministry of AYUSH to several meetings to work on a collaborative
project on Ayurgenomics entitled “Madhumeda vis-a-cis Type -2 Diabetes Mellitus:
Elucidation of endophenotypes through Ayurgenomics approach for personalized
predictive and preventive medicine in August 2015
29. Brainstorming session of assessment of Prakriti, based on Ayurvedic principles by
Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), 7th August, 2014.
30. Research conclave held as part of the Sixth World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) on 7th
Nov 2014 TRISUTRA: Genomics through Ayurveda Prism (About TRISUTRA Unit)
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31. Plenary session on Ayurgenomics in the National Conference on
‘Ethnopharmacology and Biotechnology in Drug Development : Prospects and
Challenges' organised by Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Vaidya Ram Naryan
Sharma Institute of Ayurved and Alternate Medical Education and Research,
Bundelkhand University, Jhansi in collaboration with Society for
Ethnopharmacology, 14th November, 2014
32. Thematic workshop on neurobiology of disorders) held on December, on 18th and
19th Decmber 2014 in IIT Kanpur
33. Thematic workshop on neurobiology of disorders) held on December 2014, on 18th
and 19th in IIT Kanpur
34. MDU Rohtak during National Seminar: “Next Generation Sciences: Vision 2020 &
beyond” on 8th March 2014
35. Amity Institute of Biotechnology”, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus
in a two day national conference (Oct. 17-18, 2013) on "Women power in cutting edge
biotechnology"
36. Workshop on NGS data analysis IISER campus from 20th to 23rd February 2014
37. Symposium-cum-workshop on High-throughput Data-driven Biology, Insitute of
Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology from September 12-14th 2012
38. National Workshop on “Research Project Designing & Evaluation”IPGT&RA, GAU,
Jamnagar, India 20th – 21st July 2012
39. Invited lecture at CCMB, Hyderabad, 9th May 2012
40. Advances in Chemical, Pharmaceutical & Ayurvedic Sciences, Acharya P.C. Ray Young
Scientists’ Conference, Presidency University, Kolkata. 17- 18 February, 2012
41. Interactive meeting of the Scientists with Dr. Francis Collins, Director, NIH, USA, India
Habitat Centre, Delhi, . on December 5, 2011
42. Conference on Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics for Genomics &
Healthcare" meeting on Dec 16th and 17th , 2011 at the Rajiv Gandhi Center for
Biotechnology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
43. 4th annual Biotechnology & Molecular Medicine Symposium Department of
Biotechnology & Molecular Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
University of Health Sciences, Rohtak (Haryana) on November 30, 2011
44. One day symposium on “Advances in the Biology of Diseases in the Silver Jubilee year
of LVPEI. July 29, 2011.
45. Chiasma: Bridging Frontiers Seminar Series at DuPont Knowledge Center,
Hyderabad, July 28th , 2011
46. XXXVI annual Conference of Indian Society of Human Genetics, Manipal University,
Feb 2011
47. 98th Indian Science Congress, SRM University January 2011
48. Science of Indianesse, ITC , Nov3rd – 4th, 2010
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49. International conference on integrative and personalized medicine and 42nd Annual
conference of Indian Pharmacological society, Kolkata, 2009
50. Society for Biological Chemists meeting, Lucknow, 2005
51. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Tiruchirappalli 2005
52. Genomics 2006: Challenges and Opportunities, National Centre for Plant Genome
Research, New Delhi, 2006
53. 28th All India Cell Biology Conference and Symposium on Genome Biology, Panjab
University, Chandigarh 2004.
54. One day symposium “ Deep roots, open skies: new biology in India”, National Institute
of Immunology, New Delhi, 2004
55. VII National Conference and workshop of Indian Society of Prenatal Diagnosis and
Therapy (ISPAT) Ahmedabad, 2004
56. International Conference on Human Genome Update at Institute of Genetics and
Hospital for Genetic Diseases, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 2004
57. Indian Science Congress , “Young Women Bioscientists of Promise” Chandigarh 2004
58. 4th Annual symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Research, Ambedkar Centre for
Biomedical Research, Delhi University, Delhi, 2004
59. National Conference on expanding horizons of Human genetics, Department of
Anthropology, Delhi University, 2002
60. National/ International Seminar on Human Genetics, Health and Ethical Issues, Utkal
university, Bhubaneshwar, 2001
International Collaboration and recognitions:
1. Participant of the 21st AMBO (Asian Molecular Biology Organisation) - International

Workshop and Training Course on “Gene Expression” held from March 30th – April
11, 1998 at the National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
2. Nominated as a visiting Scientist to German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF).
Braunschweig, Germany from June 2002 to September 2002 under the DBT’s Indo-
German Young Scientists training programme
3. Invited Participant in the India - UK Young Scientists' Networking Conference held in
British Council, New Delhi from 7th to 13th November 2002
4. Invited Participant in the Executive Course on Genomics and Public Health Policy for
the Western Pacific and South East Asian regions, held from October 20- 23, 2004, at
the University of Hong Kong, China organized by the University of Toronto Joint
Centre for Bioethics and the University of Hong Kong.
5. A member of a delegate in Sino-India Workshop on Genome Informatics held at the
Watson Institute of Genome Sciences of Zhejiang University/Hangzhou from October
27th to 30th 2004.
6. Represented India in the 4th Biennial Human Variome Project Meeting held 11th –
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15th June 2012, at UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France and the International
Confederation of Countries Advisory Council Meeting
7. Led international collaborations which has resulted in joint publications with credit
as corresponding author (Ann. Hum Genet, 2005, Mol. Genet and Genomics 2007).
8. Project leader from India in a PANASIA SNP consortium which has looked at patterns
of variations across 72 populations from 10 Asian countries. The entire work has
been carried out using the Affymetrix 50 K array. Participating countries: India, China,
Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia.
9. Under the Indo-Russian ILTP programme led an International Collaboration with
Russia for exploring the correlates of Ayurveda across two ethnic groups and in the
course of this project lead an Indian team of four women researchers to Russia for
phenotyping 2000 individuals of Russian ethnicity.
10. Co-principal Investigator in the Indo UK project on G2P4Health: Developing a Human
Genotype-To-Phenotype (Gene-Disease) Database that will Facilitate Biomedical
Research and Clinical Medicine Worldwide as Co – Pi with Dr. Debasis Dash and Dr.
Amit Sinha
PIs Prof. Samir K Brahmachari (India) Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
(IGIB) Delhi and Prof. Anthony J Brookes Department of Genetics University of
Leicester
11. Collaboration in the area of Ayurgenomics with Prof Greg Gibson, Georgia Tech
Research Corporation (GTRC), Atlanta
12. Invited by Ministry of AYUSH to attend a two day “India - US Workshop on
Traditional Medicine on 3-4 March, 2016 at A.P.Sindhe Symposium Hall, National
Agriculture Science Complex, Dev Prakash Sastri Marg, New Delhi.
Other responsibilities:
1. Member of the committee involved in the creation of the CSIR Vision 2020
document
2. Member of the committee involved in the formulation of the ethical consent
form for complete human genome sequencing in Indian population
3. Participated in discussion during the formulation of AcSIR policies
4. Preparation of SFC document for the Setting up of CSIR-TRIUTRA for
Ayurgenomics research
5. Member of the research council of CSIR- IMTECH
6. Adjunct faculty in Transdiciplinary University, Bengaluru
7. Honorary fellow of the Inter-disciplinary centre for innovation in Biotechnology
and neurosciences under the World Class University project of in University of
Jaywardenepura, Sri Lanka
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8. Resource person for an add-on course entitled Ayur Biology offered by Sri
Venkateswara College, Dept of Biochemistry, Delhi University
9. Nominated member of the basic sciences expert research group of ICMR-NIREH,
Bhopal
10. Member of the Animal Sciences and Biotechnology Research Committee of CSIR
11. Co-chair of a DBT Task Force Human Developmental and Disease Biology
Ongoing responsibilities:
12. Governing body member of NIT Durgapur attended and contributed to the
policy decision
13. Member of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the ICMR-National Institute
for Research in Environmental Health (NIREH), Bhopal and Institution of
Occupational Health, Ahemdabad
14. Member of the Ayurvedic Biology program Task force of SERB
15. Member of Technical Expert Committee (TEC) of DBT on Human Genetics and
Genome Analysis Programme
16. Member of Discipline Advisory Board of Biological Engineering (BE) of IIT
Gandhinagar
17. Invited to provide expertise, infrastructure and support for execution of
Rashtriya Prakriti parikshana karyakrama under Ayushman Bharat schemed,
my M/0 AYUSH.
18. Member of Health Informatics Sectional Committee, MHD 17 of Bureau of Indian
Standards which is the National mirror committee of the ISO/TC 215 that deals
with Health Informatics
19. Co-opted member of AYUSH Informatics sub-committee of the Health
Informatics Sectional Committee-MHD 17 for assisting in developing ISO
documents for standardization in the field of Genomics Informatics as well as
AYUSH informatics.
Human Resource Development:
Mentorship of PhD Students
1. Recognized guide in Department of Biotechnology, Pune University

2. Recognized as a guide and Professor in Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research
(AcSIR)
PhD Completed
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1. Deepak Grover, Functional significance of simple and complex repeats in human
genome organization, 2004, School of Biotechnology, Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University, New Delhi
2. Samira Bahl Linkage Disequilibrium studies in Indian population vis-a-vis Single
Nucleotide Polymorphisms 2005 Department of Antrhopology, Delhi University(co-
guide)
3. Ravi Shanker, Significance of Alu repeats in human genome, 2006, Department of
Biotechnology, Pune University
4. Shipra Sharma, Mitochondrial polymorphism in neurological disorders 2006,
Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, Delhi University (co-guide)
5. Komal Virdi Linkage Disequilibrium studies in Indian population: perspective from
repeat polymorphisms, 2006 Department of Antrhopology, Delhi University(co-
guide)
6. Rajesh Pandey Elucidation of functional significance of regulatory elements in Alu
repeats in human transcriptome, 2011 Department of Biotechnology, Pune
University
7. Amit Mandal Involvement of Alu repeats in transcriptome diversity : Exploring
novel regulatory networks, 2012, Department of Biotechnology, Pune University
8. Pankaj Kumar Identification and characterization of Copy Number Variation in
Indian population and its association with disease, 2012 Department of
Biotechnology, Pune University
9. Amit Chaurasia, Identification of novel regulatory regions derived from non-coding
and repetitive sequences in human lineage through computational and functional
genomics 2012 Department of Biotechnology, Pune University
10. Inder Singh Mitochondrial variation and common founder for Friedreich’s ataxia in
Indian population, 2012, Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi (co-guide)
11. Pramod Gautam, Genotype to Phenotype correlation: insights from copy number
variations, 2012 Department of Biotechnology, Pune University
12. Tav Pritesh Sethi, MBBS, A systems approach to physiological and molecular
characterization of respiratory health spectrum in human subjects 2013
Department of Biotechnology, Pune University (co-guide)
13. Faruq Mohammad ,MBBS, Genotype- Phenotype correlation in hereditary ataxia-
Molecular and Phenotypic characterization of SCA12 2013, Department of
Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (co-guide)
14. Ankita Narang Understanding population and genomics structure for disease
association studies 2014 Department of Biotechnology, Pune University (co-guide)
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15. Shilpi Aggarwal, BAMS, Identification of molecular markers associated with inter-
individual differences in health and diseasesuceptibility using phenotyping
concepts of Ayurveda 2015, Department of Biotechnology, Pune University
16. Deepak Kumar, To study molecular pathophysiology of Neurodegenerative
Diseases-Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 12, 2016, Department of Neurology, All India
Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (co-guide)
17. Aniket Bhattacharya, Investigating the role of Alu RNA as an integrator of signals in
stress response, 2017 (AcSIR)
18. Pradeep Tiwari Development of methods for analysis of multi-dimensional, multi-
scalar biological data 2018 (AcSIR)
19. Ranjeet Therangaonkar,MBBS, MD A pilot study of the genetic variation among
indian children with vescioureteral reflux using exome sequencing 2018,
Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (co-
guide)
20. Atish Gheware (Mpharma) 2020 Exploring the molecular mechanism of Doshas
perturbation in asthma:An Ayurgenomics approach (co-guide AcSIR)
Ongoing
1. Madiha Haider (AcSIR)
2. Dhwani Dholakia (AcSIR)
3. Gaura Chaturvedi (AcSIR)
4. Sumita Chakravorthy (AcSIR)
5. Sunanda Singhmar (AcSIR)
6. Khushboo Singhal (AcSIR)
7. DayaNidhi Singh (AcSIR)
Nearly 100 students including, project assistants, summer trainees and clinicians would
have been trained in my laboratory in the various areas of genomics, genome informatics,
high throughput genotyping and sequencing technologies and Ayurgenomics, Masters
students and young graduates as well as school children as a part of their projects and in the
last 20 years.
Course Curriculum:
1. Course coordinator of Genomics Course “Information Flow in Biological Systems”

from 2005 onwards
2. Course development and Course instructor of Ayurgenomics offered by AcSIR
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3. Resource person for an add-on course entitled Ayur Biology offered by Sri
Venkateswara College, Dept of Biochemistry, Delhi University
4. Member of Board of studies for Transdiciplinary University, Bengaluru
Industry Interactions
Jointly developed with SilicoGene, Kolkata an IPR protected novel Product – HT-
SSS (High Throughput SNPs Sequencing and Screening). This is the first globally
competitive software package capable of handling SNP data generation protocol and
analysis along with comprehensive web based LIMS (Laboratory Information
Management System) platform. The product has already been commercialized.
CR-31/2005.
Authors: Mitali Mukerji Debasis Dash, Dipayan Dasgupta, Siddharth Bisht, S. K.
Brahmachari.
Academic Collaborations in Disease Genomics, Population Genomics and

Ayurgenomics
Population Genomics
1. Indian Genome Variation Consortium Project
2. HUGO PanAsian SNP Consortium Project
3. Dr. Sandhya Visweswariah, MRDG, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
4. Dr. Vani Brahmachari, ACBR Delhi University and Dr. Mridula Bose, V.P Chest
Institute, Delhi
5. Dr Kasturi Datta, JNU, Department of Life Sciences, Delhi
6. Dr. Mridula Bose, VPChest Hospital.
7. Dr. Saman Habib, Central Drug Research Insitute, Lucknow
8. Vanessa Hayes, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of
America
9. Dr. Analabha Basu, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani
Disease Genomics
1. Dr. Achal Srivastava, Departments of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi
2. Dr. Saneev Jain, Department of Neuropsychiatry and movement Disorders,
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore
3. Dr Partha P. Majumder, ISI, Kolkata
4. Dr. Rohit Bhatia, Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi
5. Dr. Arvind Bagga and Dr Pankaj Hari, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, All
India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
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6. Dr. Govind Makharia, Dr. Vineet Ahuja, Department of Gastroenterology, All India
Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
7. Dr. Subrata Sinha, Dr Nandini Chatterjee Singh, Dr Pankaj Seth, National Brain
Research Centre, New Delhi
Ayurgenomics
8. TRSIUTRA Ayurgenomics Consortium
9. Dr. Sanjay Juvekar, KEMHRC-VADU, Pune
10. Dr Sundeep Salvi, Chest Research Foundation, Pune
11. Dr. Tuhin Biswas, J.B. Roy State Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata
12. Dr. Anup Thakar, IPGT & RA, Gujarat, Ayurved University, Jamnagar
13. Dr Sudhir Kumar, Ch. Brahm Prakash Ayurved Charak Sansthan, New Delhi
14. Dr. B.S. Prasad, KLEU’s BMK Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya, Belgaum, Karnataka
15. All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi
16. Dr. Saurabh Ghossh Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
17. Dr. Nar Singh Chauhan, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana
18. Dr Tulika Prakash Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
19. Dr. Vinod Paul, Dr Vandana Jain, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of
Medical Sciences, New Delhi
20. Dr. K.K.Deepak, Departement of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi
21. Dr. Vishal Bansal, Department of Physiology, Dr Vallabhai Patel Chest Institute
(VPCI) , New Delhi
22. Dr. Oddity Mukherjee, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
23. Dr. Greg Gibson, Georgia, Centre for Integrative Genomics, School of Biological
Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
24. Dr. Sarah Hillman, University College London, UK
25. Drs. Renu Wadhwa and Sunil Kaul, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology Biomedical Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
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Popularization of Science
Organization of meetings/exhibitions
 TRISUTRA was one of the official sponsor and also had put an exhibition stall during
The 6th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC-2014) & AROGYA Expo held at Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi from 6th to 9th November, 2014, organized by World Ayurveda
Foundation & supported by Department of AYUSH, Government of India. It is one of
the largest fair in complementary and alternative healthcare in the world. The Focal
Theme for WAC-2014 was "Health Challenges & Ayurveda". This international event
was attended by more than 3 lakh visitors with 4500 registered delegates including
500 international delegates. It involved all trade & business associations of national
& international importance in Ayurveda sector, and the major government & private
organizations. This event provided an opportunity for our Unit to popularize its
activities and "Ayurgenomics" subject as a whole, in Ayurveda fraternity and in
general public. In this Expo, we have conducted Saliva DNA isolation of general public
and gave a perspective and understanding of the new area of Ayurgenomics with
respect to personalized medicine. We have presented 16 posters encompassing all
our scientific and outreach activities including the posters depicting the field sites.
The investigators and team members from collaborative institutes also participated
in this event. In addition we set up a quiz on Ayurgenomics for participating members
and based on the entries there were nearly 2000 people who visited the stall.
 Active participation in the Genetics Exhibition organised by DBT at Teen Murti
Bhavan, Delhi, held from 14th November –30th November, 1998. Under the guidance
of Prof. S. K. Brahmachari was involved in organizing and making posters in the field
of Basic Genetics, Functional Genomics and Neurological Disorders related to
trinuleotide repeat mediated expansion
 Lead a team from IGIB has been involved in popularisation of genomics through
practical demonstration in CSIR Technofest in Pragati Maidan in 2010
 Involved in coordination of a CSIR Tableau on affordable health in Republic day
parade in 2011.
 Organised a popular lecture on “Human Genome Project” by NIH Director in Teen
Murti Bhawan August 2011
Popular lectures on Genomics and traditional medicine

1. Swadeshi Aarogya Mela, New Delhi, 2002
2. NISSCOM, CSIR, New Delhi, 2002
3. Department of Genetics South Campus, 2004
4. Department of Biochemistry, Vekateswara College, New Delhi 2004
5. Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical research, Delhi, 2004
6. Shivaji College, Delhi 2004
7. Daulatram College, Delhi 2004
8. Zakir Hussain College, Delhi 2004
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9. Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, Delhi 2004
10. Tibia College, Delhi 2004
11. Unilever, 2005
12. Ranbaxy Science Foundation's 17th Round Table Conference on "Herbal Drugs -
Perspectives in the New Millennium" Delhi, 2006
13. Venkateshwara college, Delhi 2007
14. Industry and Institution interface for New drugs to manage inflammatory
diseases BHU 2005
15. Delhi Technology University 2010
16. DBT Workshop Miranda House, Delhi July 2011
17. Indian Society of Gastroenterology Young Clinician’s Program Aug 7-8, 2010
Bangalore
18. Illumina 2009 Asia Pacific and Japan Users Meeting, Sabah, Malaysia, 2009
19. National Science Day Lecture at CSIR-SERC Chennai on 28th February 2012
20. One day CSIR programme for Youth Leadership in Science (CPYLS) in NISTAD
June 2011
21. International women’s Day, CSIR- NEIST, Jorhat, 8th March, 2011
22. DST-Inspire progamme for School Children, February 2013
23. TEDex SGGSCC lecture on Ayurgenomics Jan 11th 2014
24. Rotary Club of Calcutta, Jadavpur on 24th December 2018
25. Quality Improvement Programme For Teachers of AICTE approved pharmacy
colleges across the country, DIPSAR, DPSRU, Delhi- March 2019
26. South Asian University, Delhi for students as a part of their coursework topic on
Traditional systems of medicine in south Asia & new research developments –
Delhi, March 2019
27. Vinoba Bhave University, Jharkhand, April 23rd 2019
28. NIT Durgapur, 5-7th August 2019
29. Delhi University Botany Department Feb 13th 2020
30. Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, Feb 14th 2020
31. Ramlal Anand College, Feb 5th 2020
32. JIGYASA Let’s Talk Science, April 27, 2020
33. CSIR IGIB Science Outreach_Pragya, May 2020
34. Online lecture series organized by Yoga group of PGIMER, Chandigarh, April 2020
Popular Articles
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i. Mitali Mukerji and Bhavana Prasher (February 2011) Ayurgenomics: A new
approach in personalized and preventive medicine Science and Culture Vol.
77, Nos. 1–2 pg 10 – 17
ii. Saman Habib and Mitali Mukerji (July 2008) Mapping genes and tailoring
therapies Science Reporter Vol. 45, Nos. 7 pg 10 – 17
YouTube
 TEDx Talk on Ayurgenomics Apr 15, 2014
 Emerging role of genomics in clinical diagnosis; Genomics of Rare Diseases... Feb 28,
2018
 Symposium on Computational Gastronomy: The emerging data science of food,
flavors, and health, Dec 8th 2018
 Unravelling the coronavirus: Why? How? When? Of genome sequencing - online
webinar CSIR India July 25th 2020
Vimeo
 Genetic Basis of variation in behaviour evolution and disease Kavli Frontiers of

Science, Apr 6, 2012
 JIGYASA Series Lecture 4: Session by Dr. Mitali Mukerji under "Let's Talk Science:
What, Why, and How ...Apr 27, 2020 - Uploaded by CSIR JIGYASA
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Our team’s research featured in print and digital media
 Why Ayurgenomics researchers continue despite skepticism in research a feature in

Business Standard January 2019
 Software to classify people for Ayurveda treatment The Hindu October 9th 2017
 Computer Aid to Ayurveda Diagnosis, The Telegraph October 8th 2017
 Ayurveda: Opening a new window to look at ancient text Deccan Herald 2nd August
2016
 From the lab: Ayurveda meets modern medicine, with a little help from genomics,
Indian Express, May 15th 2016
 Genomics link to Ayurveda tenet, The telegraph April 4th 2016
 TRISUTRA Ayurgenomics covered in Dr. Harsh vardhan’s press release after his IGIB
visit PIB 30-05-2015
 Ayurgenomics Covered in Pharmabiz.com 03-06-2015
 The work of TRISUTRA Ayurgenomics Unit was extensively covered in the Magazine
Biospectrum India which is one of the most widely circulated magazine in
biotechnology Ayurgenomics raises new hopes for patients New Delhi 1 February
2015
 Ayurgenomics activity of CSIR-TRISUTRA has been covered in a popular science
article entitled Searching for science in India's traditional medicine Science 24
October 2014: Vol. 346 no. 6208 p. 410
 Ayurgenomics: A fringe medicine gains currency, Buisness standard, April 17th 2014
 The World's 25 smartest Indians 17 June 2013 - Outlook India
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/issue/11094
 Profile of Top 25 scientists in India | IndiaToday
https://www.indiatoday.in › India › Gallery Sep 11, 2011
 Featured in a book “India: A Portrait” by Patrick French Stamp on Tagore's India
Genetic map blurs lines Calcutta Telegraph-24-Apr-2008
 Indian Genome Variation Consortium Project: Genetic Map of India India PostAugust
5, 2008
 Are your genes fit? A genetic map mines rich data on India’s disease geography. Better
cures may follow, 9th June 2008, Outlook India
Youtube features
 Featured in Women in STEM - Story of Mitali Mukherji by Google India
 SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE OF AYURVEDA, an in-depth film on the fundamentals of
Ayurveda and its relevance in Modern Genomics. A 10 mins. film screened before PM
Modi on 2nd National Ayurveda Day 2017 at AIIA, New Delhi, organised by the
Ministry of AYUSH
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 Nature –The ultimate Pharmacy The film opens up the deep insights of Indian system
of medicines with scientific analysis. The film was screened at AROGYA-2017, the 1st
International Exhibition and Conference on AYUSH and wellness organised by FICCI.
 Tejasvini: Special interaction with Mitali Mukerji, Senior Principal Scientist at the
CSIR Institute of Genomics. Oct 5, 2019 – Vigyan Prasar
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Curriculum Vitae

Mitali Mukerji, PhD, FNASc

Date of Birth: 13th November 1967

Degree Year Institute Area

Designation Period Organization

Brief career highlights:

 Plant Molecular Biology

Awards and Recognitions:

1. Ayurgenomics and its applicability

3. Genetics of hereditary ataxia

4. Repetitive sequences in genome organisation and function

We have used computational and functional genomics approaches to carry out

1. Project Participant in DBT sponsored “ Programme on Functional Genomics”

2. Project Convener of CSIR TYFP project on “Principal Investigator Predictive

3. Principal Investigator in an Indo –Russian collaborative DST Sponsored project

4. Principal Investigator in a DBT sponsored project on “ Disease Genomics:

5. Principal Investigator under the CSIR Young Scientist Award “Human

6. Convenor CSIR supported Supra-Institutional project (2007-2012) “An integrative

7. Principal investigator in CSIR supported project on Role of Alu repeats in genome

8. Principal investigator in CSIR supported project on Ayurgenomics: Integration of

9. Programme Director and Principal Investigator (Genomics) in CSIR supported

10. Principal Investigator in a DBT supported “Pediatric Renal Biology Program on

12. Principal Investigator (Genomics) in a Ministry of AYUSH supported Centre of

13. Co –investigator in a Wellcome funded project on Hypoxia and Pregnancy Study

14. Co-investigator in ICMR supported project to AIIMS entitle Understanding

15. Principal Investigator in a DBT supported consortium project on Genome India:

Ayurgenomics and its applicability

2. Lemonnier, N; Zhou, G; Prasher, B; Mukerji, M; Chen, Z; Brahmachari SK; Noble, D

4. Kumar Mondal A, Kumar J, Pandey R, Gupta S, Kumar M, Bansal G, Mukerji M, Dash

5. Tiwari P, Kutum R, Sethi T, Shrivastava A, Girase B, Aggarwal S, Patil R, Agarwal D,

9. Ahmad T, Kumar M, Mabalirajan U, Pattnaik B, Aggarwal S, Singh R, Singh S, Mukerji

Genome Variation and Human Disease susceptibility

Genetics of hereditary ataxia

Repetitive sequences in genome organisation and function

56. Pandey R, Bhattacharya A, Bhardwaj V, Jha V, Mandal AK, Mukerji M# Alu-miRNA

Cryptic operon in E.coli

69. M Mukerji, S Mahadevan (1997) Cryptic genes:evolutionary puzzles J. Genet

As an Indian Genome Variation Consortium author

As a HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium author

a. A US patent granted for US PTO application No: 09/707,919 filed on Nov 8,

A method of detection for human spinocerebellar ataxia 2 gene variants

b. An Indian, US and WO patent filed for Novel allelic variant of cyp2c19

Biomarker for Detecting High-Altitude Adaptation and High-Altitude

4. Questionnaire for Control samples during genetic studies Samir K Brahmachari,

5. Questionnaire for Prakruti assessment. Samir K Brahmachari, Bhavana Prasher,

1. Invited lecture in Asia-Pacific Congress of Clinical Biochemistry, Jaipur, November

Invited lectures in National Meetings and symposia:

1. Invited lecture in the Training program in Traditional Medicine- Modern approaches

International Collaboration and recognitions:

1. Participant of the 21st AMBO (Asian Molecular Biology Organisation) - International

Human Resource Development:

Mentorship of PhD Students

1. Recognized guide in Department of Biotechnology, Pune University

1. Course coordinator of Genomics Course “Information Flow in Biological Systems”

Academic Collaborations in Disease Genomics, Population Genomics and

Popular lectures on Genomics and traditional medicine

 Genetic Basis of variation in behaviour evolution and disease Kavli Frontiers of

 Why Ayurgenomics researchers continue despite skepticism in research a feature in