RUCHI VERMA (PH.D) BIOINFORMATICS SPECIALIST USDA-ARS ● Beltsville, MD ● (425) 435-3927 ● ruchi1st2002@gmail.com EDUCATION 2014-Present: 2011-2014: 2008-2011: 2003-2004: 2001-2003: 1997-2001: Post-doctoral fellow, ORAU/ORSIE at USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD. Post-doctoral fellow, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Ph.D Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. India. B.Ed, Pt. RaviShankar Shukla University, Raipur (India). Percentage obtained: 75.3% with science subjects. M.Sc.-Biotechnology, School of Science, Pt. RaviShankar Shukla University, Raipur (India). Percentage obtained: 61.3%. Subjects taken: Microbial Technology, Medical biotechnology, plant biotechnology, genetic engineering. B.Sc-Microbiology, St.Thomas College, Bhilai (India) Pt. RaviShankar Shukla University, Raipur. Percentage obtained: 66.55%. Subjects taken: Chemistry, Botony, Microbiology PUBLICATIONS • Verma Ruchi, Ulrich Karl Melcher and Willliam Schneider. " Detection of a genetically modified plant pathogen Serratia marcescens using E-probe Diagnostic Nucleic acid Analysis (EDNA) approach.” (manuscript in preparation.) . Sharma, Nikhil, Verma, Ruchi and Bhalla, TC: “SVM based module to distinguish aromatic and aliphatic nitrilase.” (manuscript in preparation). • Melcher, Ulrich Karl, Ruchi Verma, and Willliam Schneider. "Metagenomic search strategies for interactions among plants and multiple microbes." Plant Genetics and Genomics 5 (2014): 268. • Kaundal, Rakesh, Sitanshu S. Sahu, Ruchi Verma, and Tyler Weirick. "Identification and characterization of plastid-type proteins from sequence-attributed features using machine learning." BMC bioinformatics 14, no. Suppl 14 (2013): S7. • Stobbe, Anthony H., Jon Daniels, Andres S. Espindola, Ruchi Verma, Ulrich Melcher, Francisco Ochoa-Corona, Carla Garzon, Jacqueline Fletcher, and William Schneider. "E-probe diagnostic nucleic acid analysis (EDNA): a theoretical approach for handling of next generation sequencing data for diagnostics." Journal of microbiological methods 94, no. 3 (2013): 356-366. • Verma, Ruchi, and Ulrich Melcher. "A Support Vector Machine based method to distinguish proteobacterial proteins from eukaryotic plant proteins." BMC bioinformatics 13, no. Suppl 15 (2012): S9. • Verma, Ruchi, Grish C. Varshney, and G. P. S. Raghava. "Prediction of mitochondrial proteins of malaria parasite using split amino acid composition and PSSM profile." Amino acids 39, no. 1 (2010): 101-110. • Verma, Ruchi, Ajit Tiwari, Sukhwinder Kaur, Grish C. Varshney, and Gajendra PS Raghava. "Identification of Proteins Secreted by Malaria Parasite into Erythrocyte using SVM and PSSM profiles." BMC bioinformatics 9, no. 1 (2008): 201. • Kumar, Manish, Ruchi Verma, and Gajendra PS Raghava. "Prediction of mitochondrial proteins using support vector machine and hidden Markov model." Journal of Biological Chemistry 281, no. 9 (2006): 5357-5363. PROFESSIONAL SKILLS • Bio-analysis skills: BLASTN/P/X/3, TBLASTN, CLUSTALW/CLUSTALX, NGS analysis (454 junior). • Biological database Mining: NCBI, EMBL, Swiss Prot, PIR, PDB, PROSITE, OMIM, Entrez, BLOCKS, GenBank, NDRB • Machine learning skills: Neural Networks, Support Vector Machine (SVM) application • Languages: Perl,CGI-Perl, HTML. • O/S Windows, Win NT 4.0, Linux Red Hat Sun Solaris/SunOS, Ubuntu. • Software packages: R, WEKA, MATLAB GENERAL SKILLS • Able to work as part of a team while being independent • Able to multitask with strong organization, planning and problem solving skills • Able to maintain associated documentation, collection and organization of scientific data • Able to work under optimal supervision • Able to work effectively and efficiently in a matrix environment • Able to manage scientific conferences • Eager and fast learner • Willing to travel • Excellent written and verbal and interpersonal communication skills REFERENCES • Dr. Ulrich Melcher Robert J. Sirny Prof. of Agricultural Biochemistry and Regents' Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 246 NRC, Oklahoma State University Stillwater OK 74078-3035 USA Tel: 405-744-6210 FAX: 405-744-7799 e-mail: ulrich.melcher@okstate.edu http://bioinfosu.okstate.edu/UM/UM.html • Dr G P S Raghava, Head Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector-39A, Chandigarh, India E-mail: raghava@imtech.res.in Tel: 0172-269055 Fax: 0172-2690632 • William L Schneider (Bill) Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Plant Pathologist william.schneider@ars.usda.gov; wlschneider09@yahoo.com Phone: (301) 712-8288 Fax: (301) 619-2880 Room 139 1301 Ditto Av, BLDG 1301, Fort Detrick, MD, 21702-5023 • Dr. Jacqueline Fletcher Regents Professor Director, National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology 127 Noble Research Center Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078 O: 405-744-9948 F: 405-744-6039 http://www.ento.okstate.edu/nimffab/ jacqueline.fletcher@okstate.edu