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
IndiaLab 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 |