CV-old

Education

• B.Tech. in Biotechnology, Ambala College of Engineering, 2010
• M.Tech. in Computational and Systems Biology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2013
• Ph.D in Genetics , University of Florida, 2019 (expected)

Dissertations

• PhD Dissertation: Statistical and Genomics Perspectives on Diversification Models
  • Supervisor: Dr. J. Gordon Burleigh
  • University of Florida
• Master’s Dissertation: Applications of Data-Mining techniques in Cheminformatics
  • Supervisor: Dr Andrew Michael Lynn
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Research experience

• Undergrad research assistant
  • Supervisor: Dr. G Lakshmi Kumari
  • Ambala College of Engineering
  • Major Project: Preparation of immunogen: T3-BSA and T4-BSA for production of Polyclonal Antibodies against 3, 3’, 5-Triiodo-Thyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4)
  • Minor Project: Purification of Goat-anti-mouse antibody and its labeling with HRP
• Research Internship at Atlas Pharmaceuticals. Haridwar, India
  • Duties included: Quality control and testing drug dissolution rates.
• Research Intership at Ranbaxy.Gurgaon,India
  • Duties included: Cloning and expression of gene “X”.

Skills

• Programming Languages:
  • Perl, python
  • R
  • Bash scripting (Unix and Linux shell)
  • C++
• Basic database management with MySQL

Fellowships

• Travel Grant ($300) from National Science Policy Network, 2018
• Summer Fellowship ($4000) from Biodiversity Institute at UF, 2018
• Travel Grant ($600) for Macroevolution short course at Oregon State University, Corvallis, 2017
• Travel Stipend ($500) from SSE to attend Evolution conference in Portland, 2017
• Teaching Assistantship from Department of Biology, UF,2014 -2019
• Genetics and Genomics Graduate Student Research Fellowship, UF, 2013- 2014
• UGC research fellowship for Master’s/ Doctoral Student, 2011- 2013
• JNU Research Student Fellowship, 2011- 2013

Awards

• GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) All India rank 321 with 98.04 percentile, June 2011
• GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) All India rank 380 with 96.63 percentile, June 2010
• Qualified CSIR-UGC-JRF NET in Life Sciences with All India Rank 266, September 2010

Posters

• Hans, N; Ponciano J M, Burleigh J G. Characterizing the performance of species diversification models. Evolution Meeting, Portland, OR. July, 2017.
• Hans, N; Kimball R., Braun E.L., and Burleigh J.G. Building Avian Tree of Life using Supermatrix .Florida Genetics Symposium. Gainesville, FL. November, 2014.
• Hans, N; Yendrek C. , Ainsworth L. , Brown P. , Leakey A.D.B. ,Dalsing B. , Rios L. , Sorgini C. , Barrios-Perez E. , Erice G , Shim S, Leisne C, McIntyre LM. The impact of ozone growth and development in Zea mays. Florida Genetics Symposium. Gainesville, FL. November, 2013.
• Hans, N; Bharti D., and Lynn A.M. Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR) for targets against Mycobacterium tuberculosis using data-mining techniques. International Conference on Biomolecular forms and functions. Bangalore, India. January, 2013.
• Hans, N; Mittal P, and GL Kumari. Production of Monoclonal antibodies against α- and β- subunits of hCG. National Conference on Medical Biotechnology, Rohtak, India. Rohtak, India. April, 2010.

Talks

Posters

June 23, 2017

Poster presentation for my research at Various venues,

Towards diagnosing identifiability of evolutionary models

May 07, 2019

UFBI Symposium Talk at Biodiversity Institute, UF, Gainesville, Fl

Bright Side of Phylogenetics: Evaluating the identifiability of diversification model

June 23, 2019

Talk at Evolution society meeting, Rhode Island,Providence

Teaching

X lab (Cross-Disciplinary Laboratory)

Integrated Principles of Biology Laboratory

Grad training

Genetics

Online Teaching

Outreach and Service

• Served as the IT rep for Biology Graduate Student Association 2017-2018
• Served as the Graduate Student Council Student Rep for Genetics Institute 2013-2014
• Organized DNA day (April 2016) at University of Florida Genetics Institute
• Volunteered for two years for Reading Pals For more information
• Organized Synthetic Biology Symposium at School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, JNU 2012. Co-organized with Rajan Shrivastava.

Other Sympososia and Training:

• Attended the Second Annual Science Policy Symposium by SEPA at Rockefeller University, NYC November 10th-11th 2018.
• Attended the Data and Software Carpentry Instructor training to become a certified instructor at University of Florida from March 3-4, 2018.

Professional Membership

• Genetics Society of America
• Society for the Study of Evolution
• Society of Systematic Biologists