Prachi Srivastava

Prachi Srivastava, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics, Occuloinformatics and Neuroinformatics
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Biography

Dr. Prachi Srivastava Assistant Professor of Amity Institue of Biotechnology Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus Lucknow has completed her master's from Lucknow University in Zoology. She did her research work under a collaborative project of IITR and KGMU Lucknow in the area of Eales’ Disease Diabetic Retinopathy and Uveitis. Her doctorate degree was awarded from Lucknow University. She developed platelets as a model system for oxidative stress studies against ‘retinal disorders. She has delivered many presentations at a national and international forum and has 70 publications in journals of high repute with high impact. Not only as an academician but as an honorary biotechnology counselor she had also given counseling seminars related to careers in biotechnology and bioinformatics at different places. She is a member of many national and international societies as well as advisory bodies and reviewers and in the editorial team in different national and international journals of high repute.

Research Interest

Her enthusiastic research contribution in the area of bioinformatics is concern with Gene identifications, High through put analysis to protein structure predictions as well as virtual screening to identify the potentiality of herbal molecules. She is also working in the area of microarray data analysis of selected disorders as well as unique database designing and development. Occuloinformatics and Neuroinformatics is her main area of concern. She has predicted different structure of ocular and neural proteins along with their characterization and docking studies of different herbal molecules. Beyond this she is also working for filiariasis and other allied branches of computational biology.