Utkarsha Mahanta

DST-INSPIRE SRF at IIT Hyderabad, Telangana, India
bo23resch01009[at]iith.ac.in

I am a DST-INSPIRE SRF at SharmaG_omics Lab at the Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India. My PhD work majorly focuses on understanding the evolution of myxobacteria in terms of aerobic respiration, complex physiological characteristics and genome expansion, which is carried out under the supervision of Dr. Gaurav Sharma. I use high-throughput genomic approaches like phylogenomic analysis, synteny analysis and domain analysis to achieve my research goals. Apart from these, I am also involved in other projects of the lab like understanding the outer membrane polysaccharide export system and motility system in bacteria with a special focus on myxobacteria. I have also worked on genomic surveillance of COVID along with the detection of mutational hotspots in the case of monkey pox.

Before joining my PhD, I completed my M. Tech in Computational Biology from the Department of Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India. During these two years, I received the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) fellowship. My project here involved understanding the virulence factor in Mycobacterium ulcerans.

Experience

Research Scholar

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H), Telangana, India

Decoding the evolution of aerobic respiration, complex physiological characteristics and genome expansion in myxobacteria

January 2023 - Present

Research Scholar

Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore, India

Decoding the evolution of aerobic respiration, complex physiological characteristics and genome expansion in myxobacteria

March 2021 - December 2022

M.Tech Project

Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India

Functional analysis of hypothetical proteins and genome-scale metabolic reconstruction for Mycobacterium ulcerans

M.Sc Project

Tezpur University, Assam, India

Study on different types of graphs and their relation with various types of matrices

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India
& Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore, India

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
Computational Biology
March 2021 - Present

Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India

Master of Technology (M.Tech)
Computational Biology
Gold Medalist

Tezpur University, Assam, India

Master of Science (M.Sc)
Mathematics
First class

Cotton College, Assam, India

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc)
Mathematics
First class

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