Dr. Ravi Shankar
Senior Principal Scientist
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresources Technology
Palampur, Himachal Pardesh, India
Coordinator and PI,
The Himalayan Centre for High-throughput Computational Biology (HiCHiCoB),
A BIC, supported by DBT, Govt. of India
PI, Senior Principal Scientist and Group Leader
Coordinator, Bioinformatics Programme, AcSIR@CSIR-IHBT
Studio of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Division of Biotechnology,
CSIR-Institute of Himalyan Bioresources Technology
Palampur(Himachal Pradesh), India.
Email: ravish@ihbt.res.in ;
ravish9@gmail.com
Mentors
Achivements
Education
Fellowships and Recognitions
- GATE qualified
- CSIR-NET qualified
- DBT fellowship
- Hewlett-Packard fellowship
- NIH, USA project fellow
- DST/SERB Young Scientist Fast Track Grant Award.
- Member, Board of Examiners, Central University of Bihar.
- INSA-Australian Academy of Science Visiting Scientist Fellowship, 2012-13.
- Visiting faculty and CDC committee member, Central University of Himachal Pradesh.
- UGC ENCORE Faculty for University of Jammu.
Academic Referee/Reviewer for Journals/Publishers
- FEBS
- RNA (Cold Spring Harbor Lab Publication)
- Nature Scientific Reports
- BMC Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics
- CRC Press
- BMC Genomics
- Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
- Genome
- PLOS ONE
- Genomics (Elsevier)
- DATABASE (Oxford)
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Journal of Biosciences
- Journal of Genetics
- Molecular Breeding
- PeerJ
Refree for National and International Grant Funding Agencies
Reviewer for Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.
Course Director and Organizer
- National Bioinformatics Workshop on "The Bioinformatics of Next Generation Sequencing", June 17-18, 2010, IHBT, CSIR, Palampur. (~~The first DBT, Government of India Sponsored Workshop on NGS in India~~)
- National Bioinformatics Workshop on "Deep Bioinformatics Boot Camp", 28th - 30th August, 2023, IHBT, CSIR, Palampur.
Professional and Research Experience
- Researcher at Genetic Information Research Institute (GIRI), Mountain View, California, USA, 2007.
- Main Bioinformatician, BIOBASE International (Transfac fame), Bangalore, 2008.
- Faculty in Bioinformatics, Indian Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 2009.
- Scientist, Division of Biotechnology, CSIR-Institute of Himalyan Bioresources Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2010-2014.
- Senior Scientist, Division of Biotechnology, CSIR-Institute of Himalyan Bioresources Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2014-2018.
- Principal Scientist, Division of Biotechnology, CSIR-Institute of Himalyan Bioresources Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2018-2024.
- Senior Principal Scientist, Division of Biotechnology, CSIR-Institute of Himalyan Bioresources Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India, Since 2024.
Projects and Publications
Funded Project Grants Attracted As PI
- Project titled "Computation investigation into the role of alternative splicing in cellular differentiation, tissue regeneration, diseases and evaluation", sanctioned for funding by the DBT, Government of India.
- Project titled "National Network Project of CSIR-IHBT, Palampur " , sanctioned for funding by the DBT, Government of India.
- Project titled "The Himalayan Centre for High-throughput Computational Biology (HiCHiCoB)", sanctioned for funding by the DBT, Government of India.
- Project titled "iPRESS: Integrated Plant REgulomics Software & Server", sanctioned for funding by the CSIR, India.
- Project titled" Exploration of RBP-RNA interactions to reveal the post-transcriptional regulatory impact and development of related tools and resource server", sanctioned for funding by the Department of Biotechnology.
- Project titled "Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation by small RNAs: a computational approach", sanctioned for funding by the Department of Science and Technology.
- Project titled "Identification of De novo non-coding transcripts in Human Brain [HUNT]", Project Funded under "Encouraging and Motivating Pursuit of World Class Exploratory Research " [EMPOWER] CSIR, India.
- Project titled "Regulatory system Analysis with respect to microRNAs and development of related softwares and Servers", anctioned for funding by DBT.
- Project titled "Understanding plant-nematode interaction: Identification of plant and nematode genes involved in disease development", sanctioned for funding by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
- Project titled "Profiling and characterization of early phase differential mi-RNA(s) responsible for downstream development of insulin resistance in hMSC derived adipocytes", sanctioned for funding by DBT.
- National 12th Five Year Plan Project for Computational Biology,"GENESIS" (2012-2017).
- National 12th Five Year Plan Project for Epigenetics,"EpiHED" (2012-2017).
Publications
Full updated list
- PTF-Vac: Ab-initio discovery of plant transcription factors binding sites using deep co-learning encoders-decoders
Sagar Gupta, Jyoti, Umesh Bhati, Veerbhan Kesarwani, Ravi Shankar*, bioRxiv, 2024 - Comprehensive analysis of computational approaches in plant transcription factors binding regions discovery
Jyoti, Ritu, Sagar Gupta, Ravi Shankar*, Heliyon, 2024 - Genome wide identification of WUSHEL-related homeobox genes reveal their differential regulation during cold stress and in vitro organogenesis in Picrorhiza kurrooa
Jhilmil Nath, Shubham Joshi, Sagar Gupta, Veerbhan Kesarwani, Ravi Shankar and Rohit Joshi*, In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2024 - PTFSpot: deep co-learning on transcription factors and their binding regions attains impeccable universality in plants
Sagar Gupta, Veerbhan Kesarwani, Umesh Bhati, Jyoti, Ravi Shankar*, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024 - Nutritional quality and microbial diversity of Chhurpe from different milk sources: An ethnic fermented food of high-altitude regions of the Western Himalayas
Sahdev Choudhary†, Kumari Shanu†, Athrinandan S Hegde†, Raman Kumar, Veerbhan Kesarwani, Ravi Shankar*, Sarita Devi*, Vidyashankar Srivatsan*, Discover Food, 2024 - Flavonoids from Aerial Parts of Cissampelos pareira L. as Antimalarial Agents: Computational Validation of Ethnopharmacological Relevance
Patil Shivprasad Suresh†, Veerbhan Kesarwani†, Surekha Kumari, Ravi Shankar*, Upendra Sharma*, South African Journal of Botany, 2023 - miWords: Transformers based composite deep-learning for highly accurate discovery of pre-miRNA regions across plant genomes
Sagar Gupta, Ravi Shankar*, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - Bisbenzylisoquinolines from Cissampelos pareira L. as Antimalarial Agents: Molecular Docking, Pharmacokinetics Analysis, and Molecular Dynamic Simulation Studies
Patil Shivprasad Suresh†, Veerbhan Kesarwani†, Surekha Kumari, Ravi Shankar*, Upendra Sharma*, Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2023 - De novo transcriptome based insights into secondary metabolite biosynthesis in Malaxis acuminata (Jeevak) - A therapeutically important orchid
Paromik Bhattacharyya†, Tanvi Sharma†, Abhinandan Yadav†, Lucy Lalthafamkimi, Ritu, Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, Robin Joshi, Ravi Shankar*, Sanjay Kumar*, Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - Time-series RNA-Seq transcriptome profiling reveals novel insights about cold acclimation and de-acclimation processes in an evergreen shrub of high altitude
Nikita Rathod†, Prakash Kumar†, Nandita Mehta, Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, Ravi Shankar*, Amit Chawla*, Scientific Reports, 2022 - DeepPlnc: Bi-modal Deep Learning for Highly Accurate Plant lncRNA Discovery
Ritu†, Sagar Gupta†, Nitesh Kumar Sharma, Ravi Shankar*, Genomics, 2022 - RBPSpot: Learning on Appropriate Contextual Information for RBP Binding Sites Discovery
Nitesh Kumar Sharma†, Sagar Gupta, Ashwani Kumar, Prakash Kumar, Upendra Kumar Pradhan, Ravi Shankar*, iScience, 2021 - In-depth assembly of organ and development dissected Picrorhiza kurroa proteome map using mass spectrometry
Manglesh Kumari†, Upendra Kumar Pradhan, Robin Joshi, Ashwani Punia, Ravi Shankar, Rajiv Kumar*, BMC Plant Biology, 2021 - miRbiom: Machine-Learning on Bayesian Causal Nets of RBP-miRNA interactions successfully predicts miRNA profiles
Upendra Kumar Pradhan†, Nitesh Kumar Sharma†, Prakash Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Sagar Gupta, Ravi Shankar*, PLoS ONE, 2021 - The first draft genome of Picrorhiza kurrooa, an endangered medicinal herb from Himalaya
Tanvi Sharma†, Nitesh Kumar Sharma†, Prakash Kumar, Ganesh Panzade, Tanuja Rana, Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, Anil Kumar Singh, Dharam Singh, Ravi Shankar*, Sanjay Kumar*, Scientific Reports, 2021 - In Silico Approach for Identifying Natural Lead Molecules Against SARS-COV2
Shiv Shankar Gupta†, Ashwani Kumar†, Ravi Shankar*, Upendra Sharma*, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 2021