VISHAL KUMAR SARSANI [email protected] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=98lb66EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao QUALIFICATIONSSUMMARY: • Masters in bioinformatics with strong background in genomics with 4 years of data analysis research experience • Programming proficiency in R, Python, C++, UNIX, HTML, MySQL along with strong software troubleshooting skills • Developed pipelines integrating software tools saving time for automated analysis and visualization of sequence data • Achieved publishable results helping collaborators in analysis, interpretation of results and manuscript preparation PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Application computational scientist, 03/2015- present, Jackson laboratory • Development and maintenance of automated pipelines/tools to analyze large NGS data produced internally • Developing computational tools and analysis for studying diseases like cancer, diabetes in genetic mice • Large scale Genomic annotation and analysis of novel eukaryotic organism and studying phylogenetic properties • Complete high resolution first denovo assembly of a model organism using long read technologies • Development and analysis of clinical variant data produced internally and provide informatics support Bioinformatics research assistant and Data analysis support, 01/2013- 02/2015, Indiana University • Developed a pipeline for mining of microbial metabolites in whole genome sequence data of human microbiome • Analyzed 16S microbiome data of children with infectious diseases (RV) and studied bacterial pathogens interactions • Achieved published results from microRNA expression and statistical analysis in cirrhosis patients (microarray) EDUCATION: Master of Science in Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Informatics and computing, GPA– 3.6/4 •Algorithms in bioinformatics: Implemented and developed scalable motif finding, keyword tree algorithms in C++. • Machine Learning: Evaluated various tools and algorithms for gene prediction. Studied various ML techniques •Biological database structure and management: development of pancreatic Cancer database using SQL, RDMS Bachelor of Technology in biotechnology, JNTU 2008-2012, GPA -3.3/4 • Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Microbiology and computational biology SKILLS Programming languages: Python, C++, BASH shell Scripting, UNIX, MySQL, R, and HTML Computer: LINUX, High performance computing (HPC), cloud computing, AWS, GCE, revision control, testing Personal: Motivated, Team player, Collaborative, independent, excellent oral and written communication skills Bioinformatics: Bowtie, BWA, Velvet,Tophat, Newbler, IGV, Mev, RefSeq, GATK, FASTX toolkit, VCF tools, SAMtools, dbSNP, ClinVar, TCGA,STAR, ANOVA, BLAST, freebayes,PubMed, EcoCyc, NCBI Taxonomy,SRA ACHIEVEMENTS •Research scholarship from Indiana university school of informatics and computing. •Winner of nvidia TK1 CUDA contest (https://developer.nvidia.com/tk1-vision-challenge) PUBLICATIONS: • Relationship between differential hepatic microRNA expression and decreased hepatic cytochrome P450 3A activity in cirrhosis Vuppalanchi R, Liang T, Goswami CP, Nalamasu R, Li L, Jones D, Wei R, Liu W, Sarasani V,Janga SC, Chalasani • Whole-Genome sequence of Sungri 96 vaccine strain of Peste des petits ruminant’s virus (PPRV) Siddappa Manjunath, Gandham Ravi Kumar, Vishal Sarsani, Bishnu Prasad Mishra, Bina Mishra, C Joshi, Aditya Sahoo, Ashok Tiwari, and Sarath janga • Mo1202 Esophageal Microbiome in Healthy Children and Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Prospective Study Kalyan Ray Parashette · Vishal kumar Sarsani · Evelyn Toh · Emily C. Hon · Sarath Chandra Janga · David Nelson · Sandeep K. Gupta Newborn Upper Airway Microbiome Differs From Maternal Airway Microbiome, VK Sarsani, D Nelson, SC Janga, SD Davis, KM Kloepfer Differential Expression of miRNAs in Non-tumor Liver Tissue of Patients with Hepatocellular Cancer due to Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Cirrhosis T Liang, R Vuppalanchi, KE Williams, V Sarasani, SC Janga .