Affiliation: Department of Genetic Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, TN, India

Dr. Parani Madasamy is a genomics and genetic engineering expert working in the Department of Genetic Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRM IST), Chennai, India. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Kansas State University, USA, and an Adjunct Associate Faculty at West Virginia State University, USA. He received his PhD in biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 1999. She then served as a scientist at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in India and as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA. He moved to SRM IST in 2006. He is the Group Leader in Genomics at the SRM-DBT Partnership Platform for Advanced Life Science Technologies. He was involved in the GenomeAsia100K project (Nature 576:106–111), which is aimed at deep sequencing of 100,000 individuals from diverse populations of Asia. He also completely sequenced the genome of an important mangrove species, Avicennia marina. He is a leading researcher working on DNA barcoding and its applications in Indian herbal product authentication.