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🔭 With 14+ years of experience in the field of Bioinformatics, I am currently a Bioinformatics | Genomics Data Scientist at Center for Computational Genomics and Data Science (CGDS). I analyse, visualize and integrate omics and phenotypic datasets from patients with rare, misdiagnosed and undiagnosed diseases in order to understand molecular variation by applying bioinformatics, computational biology and data science methods.

Research Interests

• Translational bioinformatics; Multiomics; Network Biology; Tool/Pipeline development | Rare, misdiagnosed, undiagnosed diseases; Rare cancer

Experience

• June 2023-Present: Scientist III, CGDS, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.
• Dec 2020-May 2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, CGDS, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.
  • NGS Data Analysis, Project Management and Variant Analysis for patients' datasets with rare, misdiagnosed and undiagnosed diseases. Details here
• 2018-2020: Bioinformatics Research Scientist, QBiC, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
  • NGS Data Analysis and Project Management: Multiple high-throughput data analysis projects from different organisms. Details here
• 2016-2018: Postdoctoral Fellow (Bioinformatics), Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany.
  • NGS Data Analysis: Development and Evolution of Colour Patterns in Zebrafish and Danio species using NGS approaches.
• 2016: Ph.D. (Bioinformatics), Department of Biotechnology, GNDU, Amritsar, India.
  • Thesis project: Structure-Function Analysis of Plant NADPH Oxidases
  • Other projects: Integrating knowledge of bioinformatics in medicinal plant research; Biotechnological interventions in Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal.
• 2012-2013: Visiting Ph.D. student (Fulbright-Nehru Fellow), Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Awards and Fellowships

1. 2022: Won challenge#2 as a team DITTO4NF on "Prioritizing likely pathogenic NF1 germline variants for Neurofibromatosis" at Hack4NF Hackathon by Children's Tumor Foundation, USA. Also won two other prizes: best use of PMP platform and incubation prize
2. 2021: Won Health Equity Award as a team BirthSeq-AI on "Development of an AI-based approach to better understand chorangiomas by studying placental heterogeneity" at AI against Cancer Data Science Hackathon by Informatics Institute, UAB, AL, USA
3. 2018: Bioclues Innovation, Research and Development (BIRD) Award by Bioclues Organization India (an affiliate of International Society for Computational Biology)
4. 2015: Incentive award for the best paper from Ph.D. work entitled "Versatile roles of plant NADPH oxidases and emerging concepts" by DBT-Biotechnology Information System Network (BTISNET), India
5. 2012-2013: Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship by Foreign Fulbright Scholarship Board (FSB), Washington DC, USA
6. 2012: BioInformatics National Certification (BINC) by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India
7. 2010: INSPIRE Fellowship to pursue Ph.D. by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India

Publications

• GoogleScholar
• ResearchGate