Jayjit

I love to blend conventional thinking with contemporary examples to help people learn,love and live the as they experience and explore science to enhance their knowledge and skills.
I am a life science enthusiast and love to explore and experience science
from a naturalists point of view, from micro to marco level, along with observing the role played by environment towards shaping the life history of
an organism.I wish to work in an integrated approach of field based study
combined with lab works.I was brought up in the lap of Himalayas, which
leaves a deep impression in me to care for nature in general and life in particular.
Fortunately, I was able to work and have experience on wide range of topics
ranging from wildlife and conservation biology on the Himalayas to genetics
and related molecular biology in sophisticated labs of some premier Institutes in India and abroad.
I am open to learn and explore new things and would love to be involved
in some organismal biology research in near future. I also wish to make
science, easily perceivable by the society.

Availability: US eastern time Anytime on Weekend and 6pm to 12pm in Weekdays

Willing to travel: 5 miles

Experience: Research Experience
20th May - 19th August 2016 : University of Pittsburgh, USA
Supervisor: Prof. Phalguni Gupta , Department of Infectious Disease and
Microbiology
Work: HIV Virology and its relationship with Pathogenesis and Transmission.Hands on experience on basic virology tools and sterile tissue culture
techniques along with statistical and epidemiological courses.
June - August 2015 : Free University of Berlin, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Jens Rolff , Free University of Berlin, Institute of Biology.
Work: Experiments and immunopathological studies with mealworm (Tenebrio molitor), as model organisms.
June - August 2014 : National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
Supervisor: Dr.Deepa Agashe and Dr.Imroze Khan
Work: To continue the genotyping work in Adaptation lab on flour beetles
(Tribolium castaneum) and look into Adaptive variations via Single Nuclear
Polymorphisms (SNPs) in its different populations collected from various
places in India, and study their population structure/genetics.
May - June 2014 : Nature Conservation Foundation, India
Supervisor: Mr. Abhishek Ghoshal, Research Scholar under Dr. Yashveer
Bhatnagar
Work: Carried out double-observer surveys to estimate ungulate population
and grid-wise transects to estimate snow leopard and prey occupancy as
part of the Nature Conservation Foundations High Altitude Program in the
project ”Patterns and determinants of occurrences of snow leopard and
its primary prey species in the Indian Greater and TransHimalaya” in
the upper Spiti Landscape, Himachal Pradesh, India.
May - July 2013 : Semester project on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology lab course:
Supervisors: Dr. Guha Dharmarajan and Dr. Anuradha Bhat
Work: Comparative study of biodiversity among molluscan assemblages
from two different formations of Miocene from Kutch,India (A paleobiology
approach).
May - July 2013 : National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
Supervisor: Dr.Deepa Agashe and Dr.Imroze Khan
Work: Joined Adaptation lab and studied ”Neutral Genetic Variation” in
flour beetle(Tribolium castaneum) Populations, collected from across India
(using microsatellites as molecular markers).