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Manish Kumar Sinha, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His current postdoctoral research is primarily focused on the characterization of ocular microbiome at the species level and their interactions with the immune system using well-established whole-metagenome sequencing, and metatranscriptomics 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 on a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded project entitled “Molecular Marker for improving reproduction of cattle and buffaloes”.
Before his PhD, Dr. Sinha was working as 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 genome, as well as miRNA, RNA-Seq, Chip-Seq, Methylome analysis.
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