CV

Contact Information

Name Divya Krishna Kumar
Professional Title PhD candidate
Email divz.kkumar@gmail.com
Location 234 Hertzl St, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 7610001

Professional Summary

A biologist in the pursuit of cracking the code of life.

Experience

  • 2018 - 2018

    Kansas City, USA

    Summer Scholar (internship)
    Stowers Institute for Medical Reseach, USA
    • single molecule FISH in Drosophila melanogaster embryos to study RNA polymerase pausing in the lab of Dr Julia Zeitlinger

Education

  • 2021 - 2026

    Rehovot, Israel

    PhD
    Weizmann Institute of Science
    Computational/Molecular Biology
    • Relavant Courses: Projects in Data Science, Introduction to Machine Learning, Analyzing Single Cell Seq Data, Mathematics for Biology, Statistics for Life Sciences, Network analysis in Systems Biology
    • Computational: Identified gene regulatory patterns of transcription factors in yeast by analyzing NGS genomics data. Developed end-to-end NGS pipelines from wet-lab data to downstream analysis. Routine handling of large-scale datasets.
    • Experimental: created >500 yeast TF mutants, set up a protein experimental domain in an in vivo lab (designing protocols, acquiring reagents and instruments)
  • 2018 - 2021

    Rehovot, Israel

    Masters
    Weizmann Institute of Science
    Computational/Molecular Biology
    • Single-nucleosome imaging to study K27me3 epigenetic modifications in breast cancer (Dr Efrat Shema)
    • Single molecule imaging, MST and modeling of allosteric signal transmission by DNA in ComK’s targets genes (Dr Hagen Hoffman)
  • 2014 - 2018

    Bangalore, India

    Bachelors
    Indian Institute of Science
    Biology
    • Studying biophysics of Zika Viral Helicase though single molecule measurements and biochemical assays (Dr Rahul Roy)

Awards

  • 2024
    Azrieli Institute for Systems Biology “Innovative Award”

    Project proposal granted 10000$

  • 2024
    Best Talk Award, Israeli Conference on Protein-DNA Interactions

    Talk on this research

  • 2022
    Azrieli Institute for Systems Biology “Innovative Award”

    Project proposal granted 5000$

  • 2015
    KVPY Fellowship

    KVPY-SB AIR 55

Skills

Programming: Python, MATLAB
Bioinformatics: NGS omics data analysis
Machine Learning:
Pipelines: Snakemake, Unix
Experimental Biology: Molecular biology, ChEC-Seq in vivo assays, flow cytometry, protein expression and purification, FACS, microfluidic techniques, single molecule microscopy, SPR, MST, western blots

Interests

Biology: Gene Regulation, Genomics, Transcription Factors, Intrinsically disordered proteins, Biological sequence grammar (genome and IDRs)
Personal: Cooking, Hiking, Music, Art, Reading Books