Chairman: Akshaya R (Class of '23)

Akshaya is highly enthusiastic about her goals and interests. Her main focus is on protein mutations and medication development. She enjoys drawing, painting, and other extracurricular activities. She feels she is capable of realizing her ambitions. She is now researching virulence factors under the supervision of Dr. Thamotharan. She firmly believes that hard effort is what allows us to achieve our goals in life. "Success is not a destination, failure is not deadly; it is the guts to keep going that matters," she says.

Vice-Chairman: Yogeshwaran S (Class of '24)

Yogeshwaran S is a person who is upbeat, honest, responsible, and sociable. He is a self-assured individual with keen analytical abilities. Yogeshwaran's key strength is his ability to reach out to people and persuade them of any argument. He is a self-sufficient, well-behaved, and strong-willed individual. He is, above all, a techie who is particularly interested in computer programming. He is fascinated by the intersection between biology and computer science.

Treasurer: Brintha S (Class of '23)

Brintha is passionate about comparative genomics and holds a certificate in Bharathanatyam. She enjoys sketching, acting, and creative work.She is a pleasant, energetic, and effective communicator who is also an extrovert with multitasking skills. She is a firm believer in the following quotations:"A goal without a strategy is simply a desire." She is now working on cancer genomics under Arunachalam sir's supervision and examining the genome of several types of the Deinococcus bacteria under Ragothaman sir's supervision. "Small, consistent improvements over time will yield big results," the quote concludes.

Joint Secretary: Gayathri (Class of '25)

Gayathri enjoys dancing and participates in a variety of extracurricular activities. She is a very passionate learner and upbeat student. She enjoys working with others and believes that everyone should take some time to discover their natural talents and areas of passion. She claims that she was thrilled to understand biology and computer science concepts in order to solve real-world challenges. She is extremely passionate about fusing programming and biology. Particularly, she is eager to learn more about computational genomics.

Chairman, Website developer: Sunanda S (Office bearer tenure: 2018-2019)

Experience: It was great to be a part of COMBIGS and it really helped me to understand the leadership potential and event organizing capability in me. We, as a team accomplished the ICGBIHS Conference in 2018 which was a great success. Also, I developed the COMBIGS website for that year and it was an excellent experience to add to my resume.

Treasurer: Priyanka T (Office bearer tenure: 2015-2016)

Experience: We've conducted a Symposium and increased our funds much than before. We started working on our magazine with the help of all three years of bioinformatics students.Conducted periodic meeting including first year bioinfo students.We maintained our library records and encouraged all our students to take part during their leisure hours in rotation.

Treasurer: Ksheerabdhinath RV (Office bearer tenure: 2014-2015)

Experience: It was a really new and exciting experience since everything was new for us. It was a good learning to manage finances. I can also say Saraswathi ma'am did support really well. It was nice experience.

Treasurer: Vairavan Lakshmanan (Office bearer tenure: 2012-2013)

Experience: It was great fun filled experience where you had handled the finance and arranged for talks during this time. Deciding which scientist we should invite for the talks and making arrangements for that was a great learning experience. Inviting prof.Michael gromiha to give the talk for combigs inaugration lecture (for that year) and that happened successfully was a moment that I will always cherish. It gave me ample opportunities to have discussions with everyone in the department (department mates,juniors and seniors) and also the faculties in the department. This experience did help me later in my career to organize EMBO conference at instem,ncbs during my PhD.

Chair Person: VijayaRaghavan R (Office bearer tenure: 2009-2010)

Experience: Being one of the earliest batches of BBIN it was exciting to organise various events under COMBIGS. We had the exclusive magazine INBIOSYS released and the technical symposium Pratyarth conducted. Consistency on upholding the events organised under COMBIGS was a challenge though.