Divita Mathur · Curriculum Vitae
DIVITA MATHUR
divita@iastate.edu
1-515-509-0942
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205 s 5th Street #807, Ames Iowa 50010
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0112 Molecular Biology Building, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa 50011
Education
2010-
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Adviser: Prof. Eric R Henderson
2006-10
DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, INDIA
Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology
Research Interests
I am interested in DNA Nanotechnology and Nanodevices. My ongoing projects address the
design, contruction, applications and requirements engineering of DNA nanostructures, particularly DNA Origami.
Undergraduate Training Experience
2009
“Review on Transgenic Crops”, winter internship under Dr. K C Bansal, National Research
Center for Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), India. This project involved studing about the research that has been done on transgenic crops to review the current online databases available.
2009
“Genome Annotation of Euplotes crausses”, summer internship under Dr. Vadim Gladyshev, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA. It involved analyzing the genome sequence of
E. crausses for conserved sites (specifically telomeres) and consequently finding appropriate
protein prediction programs.
2008
“Study the structure of DNA using Proton NMR Spectroscopy”, summer internship under
Dr. Ritu Barthwal, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. I learned the analysis of
2D Proton NMR Spectroscopy data for a DNA molecule to observe the nature of bonding
interactions between the constituent atoms.
Research Publications
2012
D. Mathur and E. R. Henderson, Complex DNA nanostructures from oligonucleotide ensembles,
ACS synthetic biology 2.4 (2013): 180.
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Divita Mathur · Curriculum Vitae
2012
Robyn R. Lutz, Jack H. Lutz, James I. Lathrop, Titus H. Klinge, Divita Mathur, D. M. Stull,
Taylor G. Bergquist, and Eric R. Henderson, Requirements analysis for a product family of DNA
nanodevices, Proceedings of the Twentieth IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2012, Chicago, IL, September 24-28, 2012), pp. 211-220.
2012
Robyn Lutz, Jack Lutz, James Lathrop, Titus Klinge, Eric Henderson, Divita Mathur, and Dalia
Abo Sheasha, Engineering and verifying requirements for programmable self-assembling nanomachines, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-9, 2012), pp. 1361-1364.
Poster Presentations
2012
“Deconstructing DNA Origami - Eliminating the Scaffold”, Foundation of Nanosciences, 2012.
Honors and Awards
2012
The James Cornette Fellowship (Honorary Mention), Iowa State University
2012
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Travel Fellowship Award, Iowa State University
Service and Outreach Activities
2013
Designed and implemented a web-based database under the umbrella of BCBLab for Prof.
Christine A. Petersen, University of Iowa, Iowa City
2012
Reviewer for Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2011-
Assisting the DNA Computing group at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa in their DNA
origami research
2011-12
President, Indian Students’ Association, Iowa State University
Affiliations
Laboratory for Nanoscale Self-Assembly, Iowa State University
BCBLab, Iowa State University
Indian Students’ Association, Iowa State University
Sankalp, Iowa State University
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