Overview
- Demonstrates how DNA has provided vital evidence to help solve several heinous criminal cases
- Includes a concise review of microbial DNA technology, DNA forensics and other interdisciplinary research on DNA technology
- Offers essential insights on microbial DNA testing and identification
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Forensic and Medical Bioinformatics (BRIEFSFOMEBI)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mrs. G Jyothsna was a gold medallist for the Academic year 2010 from Kakatiya University, Warangal. Presently she is Senior Research Associate with BioAxis DNA research Centre Pvt Ltd Hyderabad and is involved in handling the Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Research projects of Organisation. Jyothsna also holds responsibility of Asst. Editor for International Journal “Helix”. Mrs Jyothsna has organised several Conferences and Workshops in the field of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology in collaboration with number of Universities and Research Organisations. She has more than 10 International Publications. She has guided 500+ students in successful completion of their academic Projects. Jyothsna is also one of the active members in a DST Sponsored IRHPA project on Type 2 Diabetes. Her areas of Research include Mutational Studies and Protein Analysis.
Ms. Amita Kashyap is Principal Investigator at CRRao AIMSCS, University of Hyderabad Campus. Prior to this she was Head of Academic Operations at BioAxis DNA Research Centre (P) Ltd since 2006. After completing her Masters degree in Molecular Biology at Patna Science College, she joined BioAxis DNA Research Centre Pvt Ltd Hyderabad. She has wide experience of handling various corporate R&D and service based Projects related to Molecular Biology, DNA Fingerprinting and Bioinformatics. She was one of the members of the BDRC Team in 2008 when the company delivered DNA Based Evidence collection training to Andhra Pradesh Police in various DTCs and PTCs Andhra Pradesh. Her work on Forensic Bioinformatics was awarded the best Paper award at IEEE Conference ICACT in2013 also for her novel work on Reverse vaccinology she received Gold Medal at Biotech 2007 at Indian institute of Toxicology Research, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Lucknow. Amita has delivered more than 40 invited talks at various academic organizations and organized special session on Bioinformatics at PRIB Conference at Singapore 2007. She has guided more than 150 student projects of various post graduate levels and has 11 peer reviewed International publications to her credit. Her Research Interests includes molecular interactions, primarily those between regulatory proteins and their DNA/RNA targets, protein-protein interactions, protein-peptide interactions, DNA Fingerprinting and Profiling and Drug discovery.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Next Generation DNA Led Technologies
Editors: Sharada Avadhanam, G. Jyothsna, Amita Kashyap
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-670-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-287-669-0Published: 05 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-670-6Published: 28 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 140
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Forensic Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Computational Intelligence