RUCHI VERMA (PH.D)
BIOINFORMATICS SPECIALIST
USDA-ARS ​
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Beltsville, MD ​
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(425) 435-3927 ●
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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
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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