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Manish Kumar Sinha, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His current postdoctoral research primarily focuses on the characterization of the ocular microbiome at the species level and its interactions with the immune system, using well-established whole-metagenome sequencing and meta transcriptomics methods optimized for low-biomass clinical samples. He has published more than 20 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, utilizing genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics data.
He received his PhD in Biotechnology from Jain University, Bengaluru, India. His PhD work focused on the "Identification of Line-Specific Biomarkers for High Fertility in Crossbred Bulls." He also worked as a Research Associate at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research - National Dairy Research Institute on a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project, "Molecular Marker for Improving Reproduction of Cattle and Buffaloes." He completed his M.Tech in Bioinformatics from the National Institute of Technology, Bhopal.
Before his PhD, Dr. Sinha worked as a Bioinformatics Scientist and Team Lead at Genotypic Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India. He was involved in multi-omics analysis for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data, including whole genome assembly ranging from smaller bacterial to larger eukaryotic genomes, as well as miRNA, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq and methylome analysis.
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