Ravindra Garde

Highly skilled computational biologist with advanced competencies in molecular dynamics simulations, NGS data analysis, systems biology and virtual high throughput screening

Staff Scientist at Institute for drug discovery, University of Leipzig

Mar 2022 until Dec 2022

• DFG Walter Benjamin fellowship applicant
• Docked a potential therapeutic to the study protein, developed collective variables to describe the opening of an ion channel
• Learnt vHTS, enhanced sampling MD simulations using PLUMED, and other protein informatics tools in a short time 
• Participated in collaborative side projects to model structure of TLR4 bound to a protein using AlphaFold2 multimer
• participated in conferences

• Transcriptome analysis of Sorghum bicolor infected by two formae speciales of Sporisorium reilianum
• Facilitated the completion of a long stagnant project successfully
• Helped a PhD student in the analysis of maize transcriptome data 

PhD candidate at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena Mar 2017 -Nov 2020

• Successfully applied a minimal model to describe biofilm growth oscillations, and made further developments to the model
• Forged collaboration within the research group and contributed to a comprehensive review article modelling host-pathogen interactions 
• Critical project, data, and performance assessment resulting in the publication in international peer reviewed open access scientific journals
• communicating science through oral and poster presentations at conferences
• managed and supervised practical course in metabolic and regulatory networks to master students every summer semester between 2018-2020