LinkedIn akshiva2891@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Lab Team, Research Students and Fellows Akshayaa Ganesh Junior Research Fellow, PhD Candidate Akshayaa is a Molecular Biology graduate from Dr ALM PG IBMS, University of Madras. She has explored molecular aspects of diverse research questions like mitochondrial genetics of Plasmodium falciparum, miRNA-curcumin-mediated regulation in cervical cancer cells, and cellular aging markers like Telomere attrition & mitochondrial copy number variation in Huntington's disease. Currently, she works on accelerated cellular aging in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders for her PhD thesis . At India-ENIGMA Ageing program, she aims to understand the genetic heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) which makes a set of people vulnerable or resilient towards the disease progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to mild AD and then to AD. She will study AD heterogeneity by employing genetic & epigenetic tools like Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS), Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS), miRnome & global methylation analysis.

johnsonajith2000@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Lab Team Johnson Ajith Project Nurse ​

shrinkhalamajumdar96@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team, Research Students and Fellows Shrinkhala Majumdar Clinical Project Associate, PhD Candidate Shrinkhala is a psychologist in the clinical team. She has a Masters degree in Psychology and has worked in both inducstrial as well as clinical settings. She is a therapist by profession who pursues her research in deviation in neurotrajectories amongst those affected by bipolar disorder. She enjoys writing for newspaper articles, swimming and art therapy with children in her spare time.

adharshna.arsmi@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team Dr Adharshana Clinical Post Doctoral Fellow ​

suhailsyed1700@gmail.com < Back to People Page > ​ Syed Suhali S Project Nurse ​

tejaswinisg96@gmail.com < Back to People Page > ​ Tejaswini S.G Medical Lab Technician ​

dianachandran2223@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team Diana Chandran Psychologist ​

assistantgenect@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Admin Team Jayashree R Administrative Assistant I'm working as Administrative Assistant at the GenECT. With bachelor of degree, and also I'm data science student and I have experience working in data science project (text mining, LLM), accounting, data entry and management.

Research Gate meera.purushottam@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Team Lead Dr Meera Purushottam Senior Scientific Officer Dr Meera Purushottam is senior geneticist at the Molecular Genetics Laboratory at NIMHANS where the focus has been the genetic basis and correlates of psychiatric and neurological diseases. The laboratory is the testing ground for many clinicians who base their post graduate and doctoral thesis dissertations on wet lab experiments carried out under her supervision. Her work has focused on trying to understand the influence of gene variants on disease presentation and response to drugs. Cells derived from patients have been used to unravel disease mechanisms better, while whole exome studies have helped to identify rare risk variants in severe mental illness in patients. She is in charge of genetic testing for early onset neuromuscular and late onset movement disorders. She is interested in understanding the biological implications of genetic variants at the level of the patient, the tissue and the cell. The effect of the environment on the DNA methylome is an area of specific interest.

shwetasagrahar27@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team Shweta S Agrahar Clinical Project Associate ​