Aditi Methi

EDUCATION

College / University

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India

Highest Degree

Integrated B.S. & M.S. in Biological Sciences

Major Subjects

Cell and Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Immunology, Genomics and Proteomics, Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Computational Biology

Country

India

Lab Experience

Wet-laboratory skills: Molecular and cell biology techniques, microbiology, biochemistry, biomolecular and analytical techniques in biology, animal cell-culture techniques, electroporation and microtome usage, optical imaging techniques (light and epifluorescence microscopes) Dry-laboratory skills: Computational biology (molecular dynamics simulations, protein docking, network analysis, bioinformatics tools and databases), basic coding in Python and MATLAB, Advanced MS Office skills

Projects / Research

01/2017 – 05/ 2018: Master’s Thesis "Sequence and structure-based analysis of variants in proteins associated with neurodegenerative disorders", Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Michael Gromiha, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras, India
05/2016 – 07/2016: Summer Internship "Investigation of the developmental sequence of apical and basal neural progenitors in the mammalian neocortex", Supervisor/Group Leader: Dr. Jean Livet, Neuronal Circuits Development Team, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
05/2015 – 07/2015: Summer Internship "Analysis of mechanisms of human attentional selection in a change blindness paradigm", Supervisor: Dr. Sridharan Devarajan, Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, IISc Bangalore, India
05/2014 – 07/2014: Summer Internship "Exome and metabolic profile analysis for human glioblastoma U87-MG cell line", Supervisor: Dr. Anu Raghunathan, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

Scholarships / Awards

2018 – 2019:	Stipend by the International Max Planck Research School
2017 – 2018:	Half-time Research Assistantship (HTRA) stipend by IIT Madras
2016:	Stipend for summer internship by UPMC, France
2013 – 2017:	INSPIRE Merit Scholarship by the DST, Govt. of India

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

I am fascinated by the interrelationship between the immune system and the processes of neurodegeneration that collectively play an important role in neurological diseases. I would like to explore the underlying molecular and genetic mechanisms that modulate these conditions and explore disease outcomes through preclinical and clinical studies. I want to contribute towards the development of better therapeutic interventions through research in translational neuroscience.