Megha Bhagat
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OBJECTIVE
To get an Internship in your organization to enhance my knowledge and to contribute in the growth of the organization with my skills in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.
EDUCATION
MS in Bioinformatics from SDSU, San Diego, Expected Graduation: May 2011
B.Tech in Biotechnology, SRM University, Chennai, INDIA, June 2008. GPA: 8.3
WORK EXPERIENCE
Quality control and Testing: SIMA Labs Pvt. Ltd. June 2006 to November 2006
• Microbiological Testing, Drug and Pharmaceutical Testing, Impurity level testing.
Production and Quality Control: Mankind Pharma Ltd. May 2005 to November 2005
• Examined the product and its process, meeting certain level of quality.
• Worked for both tablet and liquid section.
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Languages: PERL, MATLAB, Python, SQL
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Macintosh OSX
Office Application: MS Office, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe photoshop
Lab Skills: PCR, ELISA, Bacterial cloning and Plant tissue Culture, AFM, DNA Extraction and Isolation, Gel Electrophoresis and Extraction, Blue and White Screening, UV Spectroscopy
PROJECTS
Synthesis of Ultra Dispersed CuO Nanoparticles and their Antibacterial Activity
• Designed on a pre planned approach by replacing ZnO with CuO
• Carried out synthesis of CuO nanoparticles to device cheaper method of developing nanoparticles.
• Carried out antibacterial and cytotoxicity test to apply the positive result against various diseases and also as vaccines.
Nanoscale Transport System: Molecular Shuttles powered by Biomolecular motors
• Designed methodology for isolation of magnetotactic bacteria
• Identification of bacteria
• Worked on the future perspective of magnetotactic bacteria as BioNanomachines
Studies of Conopeptides and their properties
• Dissected venom gland under supervision to extract venom.
• Conotoxin fraction isolated using HPLC
• Identification of sub-fragments of toxins and sequence determination.
A Comparison of Neural Network Architectures using Committee Neural Networks (MATLAB)
• Sub-classification of leukemia using artificial neural networks from gene expression data
• Studied and implemented a committee neural network architecture using a binary classification system
• Implemented MATLAB
THESIS
Bioinformatics Analysis of Gene Expression Analysis (MATLAB, R)
• Implementing variety of Bioinformatic Methods including Bioconductor to analyze affymetrix gene chip data.
PAPER PUBLISHED
A paper titled “Ultra Dispersed CuO Nanoparticles and their Antibacterial Activity” in Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, Volume 3, Issued 3 September 2008, Pages 185-193.
LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
• Aarush’07 All India Tech fest, Coordinator, SRM University, India.
• Blitzkrieg’07 -National Level Technical Symposium , Member in organizing committee, School of Biotechnology, SRM University, India.
• Organized and conducted seminars, cultural and technical programs for student’s professional society.
COURSE WORK
Data Structure, Bioinformatics, Database Implementation Theory, Methods in Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and ChemiInformatics, Biochemistry, Molecular Evolution, Advanced Biochemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology.