Professional Career

• Research Associate cum Laboratory Manager (NGS Core) – Institut für Klinische Genetik, MHB Medical University, Brandenburg since Feb 2025
• Head of Genotyping -Centogene Gmbh, Rostock, Germany, Sep 2024 – Feb 2025
• Research Scientist – Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Nov 2022 – Dec 2023
• Genomic Application Specialist–Qatar Scientific Company, Doha, Qatar, Nov 2021 – Oct 2022
• Field Application Specialist (Genomics)–Integrated Gulf Biosystems, Dubai, UAE, Nov 2018 – Oct 2019
• Senior Scientist – MedGenome Labs Ltd, Bangalore, India, Feb 2018 – Aug 2018
• Senior Scientist – Strand Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India, May 2014 – Feb 2018

University Education

• Ph.D. in Life Sciences – 2013 Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
• M.Sc. Biotechnology – Periyar University, Salem, India
• M.Sc. in Forensic Sciences (specialized in Biology) – University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
• B.Sc. Micro Biology – 2000 University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India

Academic Awards and Fellowships

• Senior Research Fellowship(SRF) awarded by the Directorate of Forensic Sciences, India (2008 – 2012)
• Junior Research Fellowship(JRF) awarded by the Directorate of Forensic Sciences, India (2006 – 2008)

Professional Activities

• Element Biosystems AVITI sequencer training in NewDelhi (2024)
• MGIEasy FS PCR Free DNA Library prep set and MGIEasy Exome FS Librarz Prep set and MGIEasy Exome Capture V5 Probe set training from MGI APAC Application Support Centre, Brisbane (2022)
• mtDNA panel using Ion Genestudio S5 system, Ion Chef System & analysis using converge software- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dubai (2019).
• Reproseq PGS workflow training on GS S5 & Ion Chef – Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dubai (2019)
• Basic DNS Sequencing and Fragment Analysis Training – Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dubai (2019)
• SeqStudio Instrument and Application training – Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dubai (2019)
• Food Safety Training – Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dubai (2019)
• Animal Health Workshop – Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dubai (2019)
• Thermo Scientific Microplate Reader and Washer training- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dubai (2018)
• HID Workflow training (Extraction, Quantitation, CE, GMIDX, NGS, Converge and Rapid DNA)- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dubai (2018)
• ACT 2015: the 14th Asian Conference on Transcription- National university of Singapore
• Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) – Bioinformatics and Data Analysis training -Anna University, Chennai (2013)
• ISO / IEC 17025:05 Laboratory Quality, Accreditation Management and Internal Audit training Program – CII, Bangalore (2010)

Publications

Sen M, Katragadda S, Ravichandran A, Deshpande G, Parulekar M, Nayanala S, Vittal V, Shen W, Phooi Nee Yong M, Jacob J, Parchuru S, Dhanuskodi K, Eyring K, Agrawal P, Agarwal S, Shanmugam A, Gupta S, Vishwanath D, Kumari K, Hariharan AK, Balaji SA, Liang Q, Robolledo B, Gauribidanur Raghavendrachar V, Oomer Farooque M, Buresh CJ, Ramamoorthy P, Bahadur U, Subramanian K, Hariharan R, Veeramachaneni V, Sankaran S and Gupta V.StrandAdvantage test for early-line and advanced-stage treatment decisions in solid tumors. Cancer Med. 2017 May;6(5):883-901. doi: 10.1002/cam4.1037.

D Kalpana, Tania Ghosh, Sanjukta Mukerjee, Meeta Mukherjee, Anil Kumar sharma, Subhankar Nath, Varsha Rajesh Rathod, Mukesh Kumar Thakar and Ganga Nath Jha Pentaplex Typing of New European Standard Set (ESS) STR Loci in India Population. Forensic Sci Int. Genet. 2011

Tania Ghosh, D Kalpana, Sanjukta Mukerjee, Meeta Mukherjee, Anil Kumar Sharma, Subhankar Nath, Varsha Rajesh Rathod, Mukesh Kumar Thakar and Gang Nath Jha . Genetic Diversity of Autosomal STRs in Eleven Populations of India Forensic Sci Int. Genet. (2011) 5: 259–261.

Sanjukta Mukerjee, Tania Ghosh, D Kalpana, Meeta Mukherjee, Anil Kumar Sharma. Genetic Variation of 10 X Chromosomal STR Loci In Indian Population. Int J Legal Med (2010) 124: 327– 330.

Sanjukta Mukerjee, Meeta Mukherjee, Tania Ghosh, D. Kalpana, Anil Kumar Sharma. Differential pattern of genetic variability at the DXYS156 locus on homologous regions of X and Y chromosomes in Indian population and its forensic implications. Int J Legal Med (2011) (DOI 10.1007/s00414-011-0646-6).

Sangeeta Aditya, D Kalpana, Sumita Bhattacherjee, & AK Sharma. Low copy number DNA profiling from Touched fingerprints using miniSTRs- A case study. Indian J Biot. (2011) 10:147-149.

Tania Ghosh, D Kalpana, Sanjukta Mukerjee, Meeta Mukherjee, Anil Kumar Sharma, Subhankar Nath, Varsha Rajesh Rathod, Mukesh Kumar Thakar and Ganga Nath Jha. Genetic diversity of 17 Y-Short Tandem Repeats in Indian population. Forensic Sci Int. Genet. 2011

Meeta Mukherjee, Sanjukta Mukerjee, Tania Ghosh, D Kalpana, Neeta Sarkar Roy, Anil kumar Sharma Polymorphisms of four pigmentation genes (SLC45A2, MC1R and TYRP1) among eleven Endogamous Populations of India – Journal of Genetics 04/2013 92(1):135-9

Sanjukta Mukerjee, Meeta Mukherjee, Tania Ghosh, D Kalpana, Anil Kumar Sharma – Population genetic data for 11 X STR loci in Eleven Populations of India – Legal Medicine, 02 /2012 14(3): 163 – 5

Sanjukta Mukerjee, Meeta Mukherjee, Tania Ghosh, D Kalpana, Anil Kumar Sharma – Differential Pattern of genetic variability at the DXYS 156 locus on homologous regions of X and Y Chromosomes in Indian Population and its Forensic Implications – Deutsche Zeitschrift fur die Gesamte Gerichtliche Medizin 11 / 2011.

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