About
Dr. Dhiraj Dhotre is a bioinformatician with research interest in the field of human microbiome. His lab focuses on investigating the role of human microbiome in health and disease using genomics, metabolomics and culturomics approaches. He believes it is crucial to study taxonomic, functional and metabolic structure of the microbiome to understand the true potential and consequences of alterations in the microbiome. His group work for generating high-throughput sequencing data, computational analyses of multi-dimensional omics data along with molecular and in-vivo experimentation framework to understand the potential of human microbiome in diagnostics and therapeutics.
Experience
Scientist “D” (July 2021 - present)
National Centre for Cell Science, Pune.
Senior Research Scientist (Dec 2019 - July 2021)
Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., Navi Mumbai
Scientist “C” (Mar 2017 - Dec 2019)
National Centre for Microbial Resource, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
Scientist “B” (May 2009 - Mar 2017)
Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
Education
Ph.D. Biotechnology, (2006 - 2014)
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Pune.
M.Sc. Bioinformatics, (2003 - 2005)
Bioinformatics Centre, SPPU, Pune
B.Sc. Zoology, (1999 - 2003)
Mumbai University, Thane
Awards
Travel award for Management and application of Microbial Data Resource supported by WFCC, UNESCO, WDCM and IMCAS during 2014
Indo-Finnish Mobility award 2019 by Academy of Finland
Grants
Human Microbiome Initiative of Select Endogamous populations in India (BT/PR23968/BRB/10/1602/2017-181), Rs. 24,17,93,311.00
Department of Biotechnology “Consortium on Celiac Disease (BT/PR45830/MED/12/963/2022) Rs. 88,07,360.00
Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 In India: Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG)-Phase II Rs. 89,21,000
Establishment of Centre of Excellence for “National Centre for Microbial Resource (BT/COORD.II/01/03/2016-179) Rs. 1,184,285,291.00