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Losiana Nayak
Senior Research Fellow
Machine Intelligence Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata -700108

Education

• Senior Research Fellow [Direct], CSIR – 2008 April onwards – MIU, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
• Project Linked Personnel – 2005 to 2008 – MIU, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
• Student (DBT Fellowship) – 2004 to 2005 – BTIS, Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
• MSc (Bioinformatics) – 2002 to 2004 – Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
• B. Sc (Zoology Hons.) – 1999 to 2002 – Fakir Mohan Autonomous College, Balasore, Orissa.

Work Experience

• April 2008 to till date- CSIR Senior Research Fellow [Direct], Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
• August 2005 to March 2008- Project linked personnel, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
• April to August 2005- Bioinformatics studentship, Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Orissa.
• Feb. and March 2005- Guest faculty, Sri Padmavati Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam, Andhra Pradesh.
• May to October 2004- Trainee for doing M. Sc. (Bioinformatics) dissertation, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Research Interests

• Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Metabolomics, Computational Phylogenetics, Signal Transduction Pathways.

List of Publications

• L. Nayak and R. K. De, "Modularization of Signal Transduction Pathways: detecting the trend of development among various species", in Proc. of 3rd Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Omics Biology (AYRCOB'10), National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, pp. 52, 2010. (Poster)
• L. Nayak and R. K. De, "From modules to diseasome: Human Wnt signaling pathway", in 4th Workshop of the Seattle-India Joint Research Training Program on Intracellular Pathogens, Goa, India, pp. 40, 2010. (Poster)
• R. K. De and L. Nayak, "Understanding Wnt cascades through modularization", in Proc. of HUGO's 13th Human Genome Meeting (HGM'08), Hyderabad, India, 2008. (Poster)
• L. Nayak and R. K. De, "An algorithm for modularization of MAPK and Calcium signalling pathways: Comparative analysis among different species ", Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 40, pp. 726-749, 2007.
• L. Nayak and R. K. De, "Modularized Study of Human Calcium Signaling Pathway", Journal of Biosciences, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1009-1017, 2007.
• R. K. De and L. Nayak, "MAPK signaling pathways and their recursive modularization", in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computing (CIC'06), Mexico City, Mexico, 2006, pp. 203-208.

Research Activity

Presented...

• A talk titled "Modularization of Signal Transduction Pathways: detecting the trend of development among various species" in 3rd Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Omics Biology (AYRCOB'10). March 10-12, 2010. National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
• Student talk titled "A graph theoretic Method for comparing TCA cycles of some species" in Computational Insights into Biological Systems, InCoB 2006: Satellite Meeting. December 26-28, 2006. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• Lectures on "Introductions to Biochemistry" and "Introduction to Molecular Biology" in seminar on "Computational Paradigms in Bioinformatics Research". March 31-April 1, 2006. Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, India.
• Short talk on "Derivation of Graphs from Metabolic Pathways: Similarity Computation" in national seminar on "Frontier Bioinformatics Tools in Genome & Proteome Analyses." March 14-15, 2005. Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.

Attended...

• Third Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Omics Biology (AYRCOB'10). March 10-12, 2010, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
• Fourth Research Training on Intracellular Pathogens. 2-7 February, 2010, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Washington, U.S.A. (held at International Centre, Goa, India)
• Second Practical Summer Training Course on "Molecular Biology Techniques". May 27-3 June, 2009, School of Biotechnology, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India.
• Fourth Workshop on "Genetic Epidemiological Methods for Dissection of Complex Human Traits." February 23-28, 2009, TCG-ISI Centre for Population Genomics (CpG) and University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. (held at SINP, Kolkata, India)
• National workshop on "Current trends in Evolutionary Biology." February 17-20, 2009. Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF), Kalyani University, West Bengal, India
• Second International Conference on "Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PreMI'07)." December 20-22, 2007, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
• Winter School on "Soft Computing Tools, Simulation and Applications." January 10-14, 2006. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
• International Workshop on "Algorithms (IWA 2005)." December 15-16, 2005. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
• AICTE Approved Short Term Course on " Computational Intelligence and its Applications." May 16-27, 2005. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
• Sixth International Conference on "Information Technology [Bioinformatics Tutorial]." December 22-25, 2003. Orissa information Technology Society, Silicon Institute of Technology, Orissa, India
• National Workshop cum Training on "Bioinformatics Tools for Gene & Protein Analysis." August 9-12, 2003. Sri Krishnadevraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
• Workshop on "Data Mining Application in Bioinformatics." March 19-21, 2003. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
• A Continuing Medical Education Programme in Immunology. November 26, 2002. Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Personal Interests

• Reading
• Creative Writing
• Photography
• Travelling, Stitching, Music... :)

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Losiana Nayak
CSIR SRF [Direct]
losiana_t[at]isical[dot]ac[dot]in
losiananayak[at]gmail[dot]com
Machine Intelligence Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203, B.T.Road, Kolkata
India, PIN - 700108
updated 24th march 2010