News@AICoB Lab

11th November,2024

Congratulations to AICoB member, Ravi Kumar, for winning first prize in the poster presentation for his PhD work on "Investigating the host-pathogen interactions through machine learning approaches for enhancing treatment strategies" under the theme "AI tools in plant disease studies" oragnized by "IPS North Zone Meet and National Symposium Himalayan Phytopathological Society" held from November 7-8, 2024 at Himachal Agriculture University, Palampur !!!!

16th September,2024

Congratulations to AICoB member, Ekjot Kaur, for winning first prize in the poster presentation for her PhD work on "Prediction of Fungal Virulence Factors using Deep learning Techniques" at the International Science Conference: Integrating Disciplines and Innovations held from September 13th-14th, 2024, organized by DAV College, Jalandhar !!!!

30th June,2024

Congratulations to AICoB member, Nymphaea Arora for presenting her PhD work on post-cognitive impairments (post-stroke) in the International conference Forum from 25th-29th June, 2024 organized by Federation of European Neuroscience societies (FENS) at Vienna, Austria!!!

17 May, 2024

AICoB is recruiting Project Associate-I under project titled "Selective grading of tea leaves using deep learning with the integration of hyperspectral images and metabolites to enhance tea quality” (GAP-0338) sponsored by IIT-Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation through Walk-in-Interview on 20 June, 2024 (See Project Number 5044 at website link for detailed qualification and requirements)

04 April, 2024

Congratulations to Ravi Kumar, Riya Sood for acceptance of paper titled "Transcriptional dynamics in source-sink tissues identifies molecular factors regulating the corm development process in saffron (Crocus sativus L.)" in Physiologia Plantarum (IF = 6.4)!!!!!!

24 March, 2024

Congratulations to AICoB members for getting sponsored project titled "Selective Grading of tea leaves using deep learning with the integration of hyperspectral images and metabolites to enhance tea quality" to be funded by IIT-Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation

29 October, 2023

Congratulations to Neeraj Kumar for acceptance of paper titled "Advances in machine intelligence-driven virtual screening approaches for big-data" in Medicinal Research Reviews (IF = 13.33) !!!!!!

18 October, 2023

Congratulations to AICoB Lab Members for getting startup project for 1 year titled "Artificial Intelligence-based app for diagnosis of post-stroke" under Himachal Pradesh CM Startup Scheme(Directorate of Industries) !!!!!!

9 October, 2023

Congratulations to AICoB members for getting sponsored project titled "Integrating imaging, multi-omics and machine learning to capture stress-resistant leaf traits" to be funded by IIT-Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation

3 October, 2023

Welcome Jatin as Research Fellow to Artificial Intelligence for Computational Biology (AICoB) as a part of DBT-Himalayan Centre for High-throughput Computational Biology (HiCHiCoB)

October, 2023

It is glad to share that Functional Genomics & Complex System Lab (FG&CSL) is now rechristened as Artificial Intelligence for Computational Biology (AICoB)

July, 2023

FG&CSL on the behalf of The Himalayan Centre for High-throughput Computational Biology (HiCHiCoB) a BIC of DBT, Govt. of India is planning to organize workshop on Deep Bioinformatics Boot Camp, 2023 from 28th-30th August, 2023. Last day for registration is 28th July, 2023!!!!!!

June, 2023

Many Congrats to Ekjot Kaur & Abhishek Khatri for just accepted paper entitled "Systematic analyses with genomic and metabolomic insights reveal a new species, Ophiocordyceps indica sp. nov. from treeline area of Indian Western Himalayan region" in Frontiers in Microbiology (IF=6.064) !!!!!

May, 2023

Many Congrats to Abhishek Khatri for just accepted paper entitled "IHM-DB: a curated collection of metagenomics data from the Indian Himalayan region, and automated pipeline for 16S rRNA amplicon-based analysis (AutoQii2)" in Database (Oxford University Press) (IF = 4.462) !!!!!

April, 2023

Many Congrats to Ravi Kumar for acceptance and publish of a paper entitled "Effector protein structures: a tale of evolutionary relationship" in Trends in Plant Science (IF = 22.021) !!!!!

March, 2023

Many Congrats to Meetal Sharma for defending her PhD Viva !!!!! Now She is Dr.Meetal Sharma!! Congratulations!!!!

February, 2023

Many Congrats to Neeraj Kumar for defending PhD Viva !!!!! Now He is Dr. Neeraj Kumar!! Congratulations!!!!

January, 2023

Many Congrats to Neeraj Kumar for acceptance and publish of a paper entitled "Machine intelligence-guided selection of optimized inhibitor for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from natural products" in Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF = 6.698) !!!!!

December, 2022

Many Congrats to Ravi for acceptance and publish of a paper entitled "Deep learning based protocol to construct an immune-related gene network of host-pathogen interactions in plants" in STAR Protocols !!!!!

July, 2022

Many Congrats to Neeraj for acceptance and publish of a paper entitled " Machine intelligence-driven framework for optimized hit selection in virtual screening" in Journal of Cheminformatics (IF =8.48)!!!!!

June, 2022

Many Congrats to Ekjot Kaur for acceptance of a paper entitled "Comparative transcriptome and tissue-specific expression analysis of genes reveal tissue-cultured plants as an alternative source for phenylethanoids and phenylpropanoids in Rhodiola imbricata (Edgew.)" in Gene (IF =3.688)!!!!!

Many Congrats to Ravi Kumar, Abhishek Khatri for acceptance of a paper entitled " Deep learning uncovers distinct behaviour of rice network to pathogens response" in iScience (IF =5.48)!!!!!

November, 2021

Many congratulations to Meetal Sharma for acceptance of our paper in Free Radical Biology and Medicine (Elsevier) (IF=7.376) !!!!

Aug, 2021

Many congratulations to Ekjot Kaur for our publication titled "De novo transcriptome analysis provides insights into formation of in vitro adventitious root from leaf explants of Arnebia euchroma" in BMC Plant Biology (IF =4.215)

June-July, 2021

FG&CSL Team participated and analyzed nearly 400 samples of SARS-CORONA Virus from Himachal Pradesh through genome sequencing to reveal variants

March, 2021

FG&CSL Team carried out transcriptome sequencing of Heeng (Asfoetida) cultivated from the Indian (Himachal) soil… Paper upcoming soon!!!!

January, 2021

Welcome Ravi Kumar, Dipali Bhatia & Vikrant Gautam to FG&CSL for PhD.

1st January, 2021

Dr. Vishal Acharya elected as "Associate" of National Academy of Agriculture Sciences (NAAS) under Social Sciences (Bioinformatics)-2021.

2nd December, 2020

Many congratulations to Abhishek Khatri for acceptance of our paper in Genomics (Elsevier) (IF=6.205) !!!!

24th November, 2020

Many congratulations to Meetal Sharma for acceptance of our paper in Epilepsia (Wiley) (IF=6.04) !!!!

27 May, 2020

Many Congrts Neeraj Kumar for acceptance of our paper in Frontiers in Bioengineering & Biotechnology (IF=5.21) !!!!

May, 2020

AI/Deep Learning Based COVID-19 Software Coming soon !!!

January, 2020

Welcome Ekjot Kaur to FG&CSL for PhD.

September, 2019

Welcome Nymphaea Arora to FG&CSL for PhD.

24th April, 2019

Interested Msc Bionformatics/Statistics/Life sciences/Computer Science with interest in Bioinformatics with valid any JRF & B.Tech/M.Tech Bioinformatics with valid any JRF can apply for PhD at FG&CSL lab with the link below Last date of online application is May 23,2019

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15th April, 2019

For Interested PhD Scholars who want to do PostDoc in this lab FG&CSL may apply through the National-PostDoc Fellowship with the link below as:

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4th April, 2019

Lab visit of Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, Director General,CSIR and Secretary, DSIR @ Functional Genomics & Complex System Lab on 31st of March,2019

20th March, 2019

Successfully organized Two days workshop on "Advances in Functional & Structural Genomics" @ CSIR-IHBT,Palampur (25th -26th March, 2019) A total of 18 participants from different states were given hands on training.

28th February, 2019

Ravi Kumar & Vishal Acharya from FG &CSL Lab, as a resource person for Workshop on "Bioinformatics Tools & Its application in Agriculture" Organised by CSK Himachal Agriculture University, Palampur

24th February, 2019

Vishal Acharya as Invited speaker & Chairperson for the "International Conference on Bioinformatics" held at Hans Raj Mahavidalaya (HMV), Jalandhar

14th February, 2019

Welcome Dr Ankita Shukla as a Research Associate to FG&CSL Lab!

14th January,2019

One position vacancy for Research Associate (RA) available at FG&CSL Lab on 29th Jan, 2019 Please see advertisement below in details:

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8th October, 2018

Welcome New Lab members ....Ravi Kumar & Abhishek Khatri..... here to FGCSL Lab !!!!!!!!!

4th October, 2018

Neeraj Kumar's poster accepted and presented at JNU, New Delhi hoisting "International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB' 2018)

20th April,2018

Please refer to our two papers with the link below as 1. Standards in genomic Sciences (IF=1.2) 2.Genomics (IF=2.89)

12th March,2018

Many many congrats from this lab for two papers back to back related to sequencing and evolution of Himalayan microbes (Sikkim) in i) Genomics (IF=2.89) ii) Standard in Genomic Sciences (IF=1.2)

12th Feb, 2018

Welcome Ekjot Kaur as a Research Fellow in this lab!!!!!!!

1st January 2018

Many Many Happy New Year!!! Best of Luck to Kamal Naini, Project Fellow in this lab for future endeavors!!!!!!

14th November,2017

As Programme chair along with Dr Prasanth Surjhawala, Scientist, BISR, Jaipur, We successfully organised a conference, Indian Conference on Bioinformatics (Inbix'17) at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur from 7th-9th November,2017. This conference was a part of Bioclues organisation (an affiliate of International Society of Computational Biology(ISCB))

12th October 2017

Those who are interested in doing Postdoctoral Fellowship can apply in this lab with the link

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2nd October,2017

Interested Msc Bionformatics/Statistics/Life sciences with interest in Bioinformatics with valid any JRF & B.Tech/M.Tech Bioinformatics with valid any JRF can apply for PhD at my lab with the link below Last date of online application is 26th October 2017 [Link] Interested candidates can also mail mail me with cv: vishal@ihbt.res.in

7th September,2017

Many many congrats to Dr.Preeti Arya for paper related to evolution of disease resistance in plants accepted in Molecular Genetics and Genomics (Oldest Journal in Genetics) !!!!!!!!

19th April, 2017

Interested Msc Bionformatics/Statistics/Life sciences with interest in Bioinformatics with valid any JRF & B.Tech/M.Tech Bioinformatics with valid any JRF can apply for PhD at my lab with the link below Link for AcSIR Phd at CSIR-IHBT, Palampur Interested candidates can also mail mail me with cv: [Link]

30th March,2017

Many Congratulations for both former PhD students of this lab Drs. Vinay Randhawa & Preeti Arya for getting National-Post doc Fellowship; Best of luck to them for future endeavors from this lab

3rd March,2017

Welcome Kamal Naini as a project fellow @ Functional Genomics & Complex System Lab

16th Feb,2017

Collaboration paper came online in Journal of Inorganic Chemistry from Central University of Himachal Pradesh (Link for PDF)

14th Feb, 2017

One Position as Project Fellow open in my lab Walk-in-Interview on 23rd of Feb, 2017 Project Fellow Link (Refer to second one for this Lab)

10th Feb, 2017

Paper accepted in Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (IF=3.2) (in collaboration with Drs Yusuf Akhtar & Shaliender Verma, Assistant Professor, Central University of Himachal Pradesh,Dharamshala). Online coming soon!!!

6th Feb, 2017

For Interested PhD Scholars who want to do PostDoc in this lab may apply through the National-PostDoc Fellowship N-PDF link

31st January,2017

Best of Luck to Dr Preeti Arya for future endeavors!!!!!!

30th January,2017

Many Congrts, Dr Vinay Randhawa!!!! for getting PostDoc in IGC, Portugal (http://compbio.igc.gulbenkian.pt/nmd/node/14)

18th January,2017

Congrts Preeti Arya for successfully defended thesis viva-voice .....now She is Dr Preeti Arya!!!!!!!!

17th November, 2016

Dr Vishal Acharya bagged BIRD Award 2016 with certificate of appreciation for outstanding contribution in the field of Bioinformatics and Functional genomics under the age of 35. This BIRD award is given by Bioclues organisation, an affiliate of International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and Asia-pacific Bioinformatics Network. Link Below for Award news [LINK]

11th October, 2016

Interested M.Sc (with JRF Fellowship) & B.Tech students can apply for PhD positions available @ Functional Genomics & Complex System Lab Please see the link [Link] Interested PhD students/PhD submitted may wish to apply for N-PDF @ Functional Genomics & Complex System Lab http://www.serb.gov.in/npdf.php

2nd September,2016

Congrts Preeti Arya for submitting PhD Thesis.........

22nd August,2016

Congrts Vinay Randhawa for defending his PhD Viva Voice.....Now he is Dr Vinay Randhawa....

9th August,2016

Welcome Neeraj Kumar as a new PhD Student in Functional Genomics & Complex System Lab.......

25th April, 2016

Many Congrts To our team!!!!!!!! Part of Bioinformatics Team awarded for 2nd Position – Incentive Awards for Publications-2016 for publications in Year 2015, from BITSnet, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. (including 5 papers from this lab).

3rd March,2016

PLOS One Paper Came online from our lab on Evolution.....

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19 Feb, 2016

Congrts Preeti Arya !!!!!!!! for acceptance of our paper in PLOS ONE .

12 Jan,2016

Congrts!!!!! Preeti Arya & Vinay Randhawa for acceptance of our paper in Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)...

15 October,2015

Congrts Vinay Randhawa!!!! Paper came online from our lab in Molecular BioSystems....

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30th October, 2015

Last DATE IS 30th October, 2015....... Internships available for Bachelors and Masters students in Bioinformatics at my lab .....Interested students can see the link below:

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20th July,2015

Paper came online from our lab in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter....

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16th July, 2015

Paper came online from our lab on Oral cancer diagnosis in BMC Medical Genomics..... (Highly Accessed;7th Most viewed during August issue)...

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6th July, 2015

Congrts!!!!! Vinay Randhawa for acceptance of our paper in BMC Medical Genomics.............

27th June, 2015

Congrts!!!!! Shivalika Pathania for acceptance of our paper in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter.............

20th May, 2015

Paper came online from our lab (Journal of Biomolecular structure & Dynamics (IF =2.983) please see the link[Link] Welcome Himanshu, B.Tech (3rd Year from IIT, Delhi) selected as Summer Internship (National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology) Last Date of Online Application 28th May,2015 Enrolment for PhD students started at CSIR-IHBT, Palampur. Please find the link below for eligibility....

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20th April, 2015

Congrts!!!!! Vinay Randhawa for acceptance of our paper in Journal of Biomolecular structure & Dynamics (IF =2.983) We are organizing the hands on Bioinformatics workshop at CSIR-IHBT,Palampur (23rd -24th March. 2015) with the link below. Seats are limited

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