Bhavna Daswani obtained her M.Sc. degree in Life Sciences from University of Mumbai. She has qualified the National Eligibility Test conducted by CSIR-UGC under Lectureship category. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. studies on proteomic analysis of osteoporosis at the National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai.

Dr. Inderjeet Kaur obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Sciences from University of Delhi. She has worked as an Application Support Specialist for proteomics with ABSCIEX, a leader in the mass spectrometry technology. Currently, she is working as Research Scientist in the Malaria Research Group at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi. She is responsible for the management of proteomics and mass spectrometry facility of Malaria group. She is working on deciphering the critical events involved in the pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum during the blood stages of its life cycle. She is the Associate Editor of the Journal of advanced mass spectrometry. She intends to further extend her knowledge of mass spectrometry data analysis and learn its proteogenomic applications by participating in this workshop.

Dr. Jyotirmaya Mohanty is currently working as a Principal Scientist at the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), Bhubaneswar. He has obtained his M.V.Sc. degree in Virology from I.V.R.I. Deemed University in Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh and Ph.D. degree in Life Sciences from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. His current research area is Aquaculture Biotechnology and he wishes to use proteomics in fisheries research.

Ranjana Jadhav obtained her M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from University of Bangalore. She is currently working with Thermo Fisher Scientific India Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai as an Application Specialist for LC-MS products. Her research areas include metabolomic analysis of various samples from the point of view of Environmental & Food safety on Triple Quadrapoles and Orbitrap systems.

Sangeeta Jaiswal obtained her M. Sc. degree in Biotechnology from the School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. She carried out her master thesis programme from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. She is funded by a Junior Research Fellowship from CSIR, Government of India. She subsequently joined Infection biology group at the School of Biotechnology, KIIT University as a Ph. D. student. Her research areas include exploring the role of lipopolysaccharide in virulence of Salmonella enterica serovars.

Sivapriya Sivagurunathan obtained her B.Tech. degree in Industrial Biotechnology from Anna University in Chennai. She is currently pursuing her Masters by research on the study of Urinary proteomics for macular degeneration at Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai. She has qualified GATE in Biotechnology Stream.

Yeshwanth Sonnathi is currently pursuing his M.B.B.S. degree from the Great Eastern Medical School in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh. He is interested in Clinician Scientist activity. He has been Student Ambassador for Various International Medical Conferences including Medicon-2013. He is currently the Student Ambassador for Elsevier in India and actively participate in the community research project called PROJECT MDM launched by the Indian Medical Students Association. He would like to apply the proteomics knowledge gained in this workshop to investigate molecular basis of disease in human.