BSN Executive Team Member
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Mr. Raunak Shrestha
web.bsn@gmail.com Position: Executive Member and Web-masterAddress : Nakabahil, Ward no - 16, Lalitpur, Nepal
Email :
web.bsn@gmail.com
s_raunak@hotmail.com,
sraunak@gmail.com
Work position:
Executive Member and Web-master (2009- till date)Biotechnology Society of Nepal
Web-master (2008 - 2009)Biotechnology Society of Nepal
Web-master and Graphics Designer (2007 - 2009)Kathmandu University Biotechnology Creatives (KUBiC)
Editor and Graphics Designer (2006 -2008) PRAVAHA (Biotech Annual Magazine, Kathmandu University)
Educational Background:
B.Tech. Biotechnology, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Kavre (2005 - 2009)
ISc, St. Xavier's College, Maitighar, Kathmandu (2003 - 2005)
S.L.C. Graded English Medium School (GEMS), Dhapakhel, Lalitpur (SLC Batch 2003)
Skills & Interest:
Bioinformatics Skills :
Applications : BLAST, FASTA, CLUSTAL-W, PAM, BLOSUM,RNA Structure, RASMOL, DeepView
Biological Databases : Genbank, NCBI, EMBL, Swiss-Prot, Entrez, SDSC Workbench Advanced level Database Design & Management
also skills in genomics, protemics & drug design
Laboratory Skills:
Molecular biology : Isolation, extraction and purification of Genomic and Plasmid DNA/RNA, Gel Electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE, ELIZA, Western Blotting, PCR, Recombinant DNA Technology,Chromatography, Photometry, Spectro-photometry
Skills in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Plant tissue culture, Animal cell culture and Bioprocess technology.
Keen interest on Database Construction, Algorithm Development and Molecular Modelling.
Keen interest on Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.
Keen interest in health sector and infectious diseases.
Computational Skills:
Well skilled in Web-design and management, programming and also skilled in graphic designing.
Graphics Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, Adobe InDesign, AutoCAD, 3DStudio Max
Programming Language: C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, PHP, HTML
Simulation Softwares: R, MATLAB
Database: SQL
Portfolio:
Biotechnology Society of Nepal -www.bsn.org.np
Dept. of Biotech, Kathmandu University -www.ku.edu.np/biotech
KUBiC -www.ku.edu.np/biotech/kubic
Projects involved:
PCR based Mutational Analysis of MDR-TB in Nepalese Population. (2008 - till date)
Design & Fabrication of a Prototype Model of Sub-merged Fringe Acetator (2006)
Web project: education@nepal(Online Portal for Student Admission Application Processing System for Universities of Nepal) [Unpublished] *** (Voted as best web-project) (2004) Intelligent Quiz Master (C++ project) *** (Voted as best program) (NIIT - 2003)
Industrial Training:
Center for Biological Production Laboratory (CBPL) Tripureshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal. - August 2008 (Production of Animal Vaccines)
Research Interest:
Construction of customized data pipelines using Entrez programming for biological databases
Establishing P2P networks & GRID technology for online biological databases
Using Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence System for Drug Design & Vaccine Development
