
Ruchi Singh
Ruchi SinghSenior Researcher and PhD student at the Institute
of Pathology in New Delhi, has become the first Indian recipient of
the UNESCO L'Oreal Women in Science Fellowship in 2006. She was
presented the fellowship along with 14 other young women scientists
from different parts of the world in Paris . Ruchi's research focuses
on drug sensitivity and gene expression in the human parasite,
Leishmania donovani.

Poonam Chandra
Dr Poonam Chandra (D.O.B: 05.11.1975), PhD, Jansky
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA. She is an astronomer who has
effectively used the Giant Metre wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and
other radio telescopes to conduct novel and important studies of
circumstellar interaction in a supernova and a gamma ray repeater
over a wide range of frequencies.
Dr Pratima Mohan Kessarkar (D.O.B:09.08.1972), PhD, Principal
Investigator, Geological Oceanography Division, National Institute of
Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa. Using a variety of rock magnetic
geochemical and isotopic data from sediment cores of the Bay of
Bengal. Dr Kessarkar has carried out extensive studies to understand
changes in sediment supply and distribution during the late
Quaternary. Her work has established changes in sources of sediments
and a lack of turbidite activity over the last 12k years which has
implications for organic carbon buried and CO2 requestiation from the
atmosphere.
Dr Prachee Prakash (D.O.B : 30.04.1977), PhD, Postdoctoral
Fellow, E Peter Geiduschek Lab, Centre for Molecular Genetics,
University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA
92093-0634, USA. Her work relates to Molecular insight into iron
acquisition, aromatic amino acid biosynthesis and immune response
evasion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Dr Vandana Mishra (D.O.B: 16.06.1977), PhD, Lecturer, Centre
for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE),
University of Delhi, Delhi 110007.Dr Vandana Mishra has done
outstanding work on prospecting of ribosome inactivating proteins
(RIP) of Viscum album (L). She has provided structural basis for
unique sugar binding properties of RIPs by determining its three
dimensional structure. She has also determined the structure of the
RIP complexed with a natural inhibitor.
Dr Omita Ashit Trivedi (D.O.B :.04.04.1977), PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, The University of
Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. For discovering
a new class of acyl AMP ligase and elucidating biochemical cross talk
between fatty acid syntheses and polyketide synthases in
mycobacteria.