Assistant Plant

Ojasvi Chaudhary

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EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

January 2014

Masters of Science in Biotechnology (Pharmaceutical Track)

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India

May 2010 Bachelor of Engineering in

Biotechnology

. Graduated with Honors

. Thesis "Detection of Bean common mosaic virus in French Bean

(Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Using Biological, Physical and Serological

Techniques"

LABORATORY SKILLS

Fluorescence-activated cell sorting Cryopreservation

Electron Microscopy

Affymetrix Genechip Microarray RNA/DNA extraction Plant

tissue culture

Affymetrix Gene titan ELISA

Chromatography

Roche GS Junior sequencer SDS PAGE

RT-PCR

QIAGEN kits Nano String Assay

Animal cell culture

NanoString Microarray Protein purification

In situ hybridization

Fluidigm assay QIAcube

Media and buffer prep

EXPERIENCE

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School)

Boston, MA

Research Assistant (Dr. Manoj Bhasin)

January 2013 - Present

. Research signature for neurodegenerative disease from microarray

database

. Identify meta signature between blood and brain samples

. Work with Roche GS Junior sequencer and other Microarray platforms

. Find potential drug that regulates the meta signature expression and

validate by wet laboratory experiments

. Gene expression and next generation sequencing analysis using tools

like R, Perl, Python

Northeastern University, School of Pharmacy

Boston, MA

Research Volunteer (Dr. Richard I. Duclos, Jr.)

June 2012 - December 2012

. Search patent and provisional patent filing

Northeastern University, Residential Safety Office

Boston, MA

Proctor

January2012-September2013

. Monitor student traffic in residential buildings

Biotech Consortium India Limited New

Delhi, India

Research Assistant December

2010- July 2011

. Coordinated between the research institutions and the publishers

Central Tissue Cultural Laboratory, NRC on Plant Biotechnology

New Delhi, India

Research Assistant

January 2010-July 2010

. Mapping and analysing DNA and protein sequence

. Cluster analysis of the gene expression data using various tools and

software

National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources

New Delhi, India

Research Assistant May

2009-August 2009

. Designed protocol for in vitro micro propagation of antarctica hair

grass (Deschampsia antarctica)

. Performed cryopreservation of banana meristems

Research Assistant May

2008-August 2008

. Analyzed seed transmission rate of BCMV in French bean Germplasm

. Detected BCMV in different parts of the seed

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Bioinformatics tools: NCBI, EMBL, PDB, TIGR, BLAST, PLOC, GEO,

ArrayExpress, phyre, Pfam, SPSS, R, C, Bioconductor, QIIME, Perl, Python,

ClustalW, Cluster 3.0 and TreeView

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