Department of Biotechnology
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala
Ongoing Ph.D. Students
1. Pratima Roy: Identification of nsSNPs in Interleukin-4 gene and their association with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Co-supervisor: Dr. Siddharth Sharma)
2. Diksha Sharma: Computational design of Orthohantavirus immunogenic peptides and in vitro validation
3. Garima Goyal: ​In silico identification of immunogenic multi-epitopes peptides against Orthohantavirus glycoprotein and their validation
4. Ishita Arora: In silico identification of conserved immunogenic peptides containing multiple epitopes against Bluetongue virus structural protein and their experimental validation (IRB Yet to be done)
5. Sneha Singh: IRB yet to be done
6. Tathagata Das: IRB yet to be done
PhD Completed
1. Neha Lohia: Immunogenic peptide identification in H1N1 virus as target for vaccine design
2. Sahil Jain : Identification of peptides containing epitopes of Ebola virus eliciting immune
response.
3. Sidhartha Singh: Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Mis-Match Repair pathway genes, and its computational analysis in Lung Cancer patients4. (Co-supervisor: Dr. Siddharth Sharma)
4. Yogita Gupta: Design and synthesis of peptide-conjugates as vaccine candidates for ZIKA virus
(Co-supervisor: Dr. B. K. Chudasama)
5. Ajay Chalotra: Study on transport mechanism of biological contaminants through subsurface media(Co-supervisor: Dr. Dwarikanath Ratha & Dr. Richa Babbar)
6.Neha Kaushal: Conserved peptide containing HLA restricted epitopes as vaccine candidate against Crimean-congo haemorrhagic fever 4.
7. Neha Srivastav: Thermo-chemotherapeutic effects of magnetic nanoparticles on cancer cells.
(Co-supervisor: Dr. B. K. Chudasama)​
Master Thesis Completed: 37