Biography

Dr. Indra Mani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Gargi College, University of Delhi (DU), New Delhi, India. He received M.Sc. in Microbiology from Bundelkhand University (BU), Jhansi, UP, India and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, UP, India. He completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. He has also worked as a Senior Research Officer (SRO) in the Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. He has more than 13 years of research and teaching experience in Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Cell Signaling, and Bioinformatics. He has published 56 articles in peer reviewed journals, 54 book chapters and 8 books. He received the MBSI (Microbiologist Society, India) Senior Teacher award-2024 and Agathiyar Chemical Biology award-2024 from the Society of Chemical and Synthetic Biology, India. He has presented several papers in the different national and international conferences. He has extensive experience in fluorescence/confocal microscopy, receptor endocytosis and signaling, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), microbial characterization, and in silico analysis. He is a life member of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), the Microbiologists Society, India (MBSI), the Society for Chemical & Synthetic Biology (SCSB). the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Indian Network for Soil Contamination Research (INSCR), and Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation Society (ABCS), India. He serves as an editorial board member, reviewer of peer-reviewed journals and also a member of national and international societies.

Research interest:
Microbiology, Cell signaling, Molecular Genetics, and Bioinformatics