Maniket Chauhan
PhD Research Scholar
Kusuma School of Biological Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Email: maniketchauhan7@gmail.com
Education:
M.Sc. Microbiology, University of Delhi (South Campus), New Delhi
B.Sc. (Hons.) Botany, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, New Delhi
Awards/Fellowships/ Grants:
Qualified CSIR-NET-JRF – 99.58 percentile rank 63
Qualified IIT-JAM 2024– All India Rank 188
Qualified IIT-JAM 2023– All India Rank 936
Qualified CUET PG (Microbiology, Plant Biotechnology)
Conferences & Talks:
Oral Presentation, ICMCESA Conference, Delhi – Mitigation of Environmental Issues with Enigmatic Laboulbeniomycetes.
Publication:
Chauhan, Maniket, et al. "CRISPR/Cas systems in therapeutics: Transforming gene editing into medical solutions." Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IJBB) 62.8 (2025): 813-826.
Chauhan, Maniket, et al. "Newborn Screening in India: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Available at SSRN 5051990.(Preprint)
Previous Research Experience:
Project Associate – Longitudinal transcriptomic analysis of alternative splicing dynamics during Dengue virus infection, CSIR–Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, India.
Master’s Thesis – “Isolation and characterization of LDPE-degrading bacteria from Yamuna River”, Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi (South Campus).
Focused on enrichment-based isolation of plastic-degrading bacteria, biodegradation assessment using SEM, FTIR, HPLC-MS/MS, and metabolic pathway analysis; identified high-potential degraders contributing to a first-author manuscript.
Research Intern – DBS-based molecular diagnostics and NGS confirmatory workflows for neonatal screening, Genome Sequencing Lab, Maulana Azad Medical College & Lok Nayak Hospital, Delhi.
Worked on PCR-based screening for hemoglobinopathies and metabolic disorders and assisted in NGS-driven high-throughput diagnostic.
Undergraduate Research Project – “Evaluation of Pleurotus djamor cultivation on lignocellulosic agro-waste”, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi
Investigated substrate optimization and fungal growth kinetics using standard cultivation and spectrophotometric assays.
