University of Delhi South CampusProject Assistant
Aug. 2009 - Dec. 2011Extracted deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from more than 1500 patient blood samples, sent over a period by various collaborating hospitals across India, and maintained records of the same, regularly; Worked on an association study for six different Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) of a gene viz. NAT-2; Resequenced the promoter region of a gene known to be associated with ulcerative colitis to generate data that would eventually contribute to ruling out a gene for a GWAS study; Trained postgraduate students, and new PhD scholars in various important lab techniques as used in the fields of Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, etc.