Kajal Kanchan

Amity Institute of Molecular Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dr. Kajal Kanchan obtained PhD in 2011 from University of Tübingen, Germany in the area of Mycobacterial cell signaling and pathogenesis. Subsequently, she worked as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at University of Debrecen, Hungary, and characterized Human transglutaminase 2 protein, biochemically and structurally. Later, she moved to University of Cambridge, UK, and worked with histone variants and got an exposure in field of transcription and gene regulation. With such diverse background and experience, she established her research niche focusing on gene regulation in mycobacterial pathogenesis. She received the Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship from DBT (Department of Biotechnology, Government of India) to work in the area of temperature signaling in mycobacterium and worked at School of Biotechnology, Jawahar Lal University, New Delhi. Later, she moved to Amity Institute of Molecular Medicine and Stem Cell research, Amity University, Noida. The broad goal of her research team is to explore how bacteria sense and respond to changes in the environment. Her team is using </span><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">M. tuberculosis/M. smegmatis</em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> as model organism and trying to decipher the molecular basis of perception and signal transduction and how these regulate the development and virulence of the Mycobacteria. To achieve these goals she is using genomics, proteomics and computational approaches to model transcriptional, post-transcriptional and translational regulation of the pathogen to find novel intervention measures to treat tuberculosis effectively.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

Manoj Kumar

Amity Institute of Genome Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India

<p class="ql-align-justify">Dr. Manoj Kumar did his Ph.D. from Max Planck Institute and University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany in Natural Science. He has nearly 15 years of post-PhD experience with four years of postdoctoral training at University of Cambridge, UK. He has extensive experience in molecular biology, Genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, developmental biology as well as next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis like DNA/RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq etc. During his PhD and post-doctoral studies, he has performed several genetic screens to identify novel genes leading to developmental plasticity in eukaryotes in response to external cues. He has published papers in leading journals like Science, Cell reports, EMBO reports, Genetics etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Presently, he is a professor at Amity institute of Genome Engineering and his group is working in the area of stress/signal perception and response mechanism of organism in response to external cues.&nbsp;</p>