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	Manoj Kumar Tripathy
	US Training at Einstein: Oct. 2007 - Jun. 2008 Position: Visiting Fellow Home Country: India Past Position: Graduate Student, National Centre for Cell Science India Mentor: Dr. Debashis Mitra US Host Lab Mentor: Dr. Ganjam V. Kalpana Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Virology, University of Franche Comte, Saint Jacques Hospital, CHU Besancon-25000, France
	Manoj Kumar Tripathy, a graduate student at the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India working towards his doctoral degree under the guidance of Dr. Debashis Mitra visited Einstein AITRP in October 2007 for 9 months till June 2008. His research project was aimed at continuing the ongoing collaborative research project on the "Gene expression profiling HIV-1 infection: comparative analysis of selective genes in subtype B and C infection and their role in viral pathogenesis and T Cell depletion" and "Aptamers for inhibition of subtype C HIV-1 Nef function" with Dr. Ganjam V. Kalpana and Dr. Vinayaka R. Prasad respectively as US mentors. In Dr. Kalpana lab, he learnt virological techniques like viral quantitation, purification as well as in gene expression methodologies using qRT-PCR and RNAi. After his return to India he continued a part of this work in his laboratory prior to submitting his thesis. This work experience immensely helped in improving the quality of his doctoral work.