Ravi Shankar's Biography

Ravi Shankar, Scientist, CSIR Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology

Presently, Dr Ravi Shankar is Scientist & Group Leader at Studio of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, CSIR-IHBT, Palampur. Dr Ravi completed his M.Sc. In Biochemistry from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi (1999) and pHD from Department of Biotechnology, University of Pune. His current research activities are Regulatory system analysis with respect to non-coding regions of genome, Transcriptional regulation by non-codings, computational epigenomics and regulomics, Computational issues with Next Generation Sequencing, The Mythology of miRNAs: Re-understanding the “micro” of regulatory RNAs. He has many publications to his credit and has received many Academic awards, achievements and distinctions.