Kushal Suryamohan

147 West Winspear Avenue, Buffalo, NY – 14214,

716-574-7744

EDUCATION:

University at Buffalo, State University of New York

  • Ph.D., Biochemistry, January 2011 –Present (GPA – 3.55/4.0)
  • Master of Science, Computer Science, August 2009 – December 2010.

Overall GPA: 3.33/4.0

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

  1. Leveraging a knowledge base of Drosophila cis-regulatory modules for regulatory element discovery in diverged insectspecies (Jan 2011 –Feb 2013) –A collaborative effort with Dr.Saurabh Sinha (University of Illinois, at Urbana Champagne) that uses Drosophila CRMs to predict in-silico, CRMs in highly diverged arthropods (malaria mosquito, honey bee, beetle and wasp) and validate these predictions in vivo using transgenic Drosophila.
  2. Longitudinal study on Mixed Lineage Leukemia, headed by Dr. Eunice Wang of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (June 2010 to December 2010) - I analyzed gene expression profiles of genes using micro array data by applyingclassification algorithms to predict classes of leukemia based on gene expression profiles.
  3. UBTorrent– A BitTorrent client developed using C and socket programming.
  4. Pen-Gesture Recognition with Hidden Markov Models.
  5. Location Recognition on Camera Embedded Mobile Phones based on MPEG-7 Color Layout Descriptor (using JAVA) -Provide mobile phone users with information about a particular location in a city from images of the location captured on a phone’s camera. Presented at the proceedings of the World Congress for Science and Technology (WCSET) in Bangkok (December 2009) (

STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Having worked in both computational and wet-lab environments, I have been fortunate to acquire skills that enable me to work both at the bench and as a Bioinformatics programmer/analyst. My research projects cover a broad range of topics in trancriptional regulation. Of particular interest to me is transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes by enhancers/cis regulatory modules and the roles of these CRMs in gene regulatory networks.

ABSTRACTS:

1. Leveraging a knowledge base of Drosophila cis-regulatory modules for regulatory element discovery in diverged insectspecies – 54th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Washington D.C., April, 2013

PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Cross-species supervised prediction of cis-regulatory modules enables regulatory annotation of highly diverged, non-model organisms – under review

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Programmer in the “Summer of code: The Visual Noun” group, at the Vision lab of Dr. Jason Corsoat SUNY Buffalo

(May 2010 - August 2010) - to implement a state of the art suite of Object Detection routines fromthe computer vision

literature(

2. Attended a two week intensive workshop on gene regulatory networks at Marine Biological Laboratory

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TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Molecular cloning, PCR, transgenics, In-situ hybridization, Immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, Electrophoresis,

molecular cloning, tissue dissection, confocal and light microscopy, BioTapestry, Enzyme Kinetics modelling, Data mining

Programming skills - R, Perl, C, JAVA, MATLAB, LaTeX.

COURSEWORK:

Introduction to Pattern Recognition, Data mining and Bioinformatics, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Supervised research in Microarray data analysis, Principles of Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Gene expression, Bioinformatics and genome analysis, Statistics for Bioinformatics, Developmental Biology, Statistics in Medicine (Stanford University – HRP 258)