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Samir Wadhawan

Graduate Student - Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Lab Address
505 Wartik Lab
The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA - 16802

Lab Phone: (814) 865-4754

Email: srw194@psu.edu

Lab web site

Research Interests

I am a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Dr. Anton Nekrutenko at the Centre for Comparitive Genomics and Bioinformatics, Penn State University. My current work focuses on analysis of metagenomic DNA to contrast eukaryotic species diversity between distinct geographical location. In addition I am also building tools to enhance visualization of metagenomic data. My past work included analysis of known mammalian genes with overlapping reading frames and studying sequence signatures of predicted human genes with the potential of encdoing two proteins using overlapping reading frames.

Publications

1. Wadhawan S, Kosakovsky-Pond S, Chung W, Wilson C, Chiaromonte F, Nekrutenko A (2008) Classifying Windshield Splatter (submitted)

2.Wadhawan S, Dickins B, Nekrutenko A (2008) Wheels within Wheels: Clues to the Evolution of the Gnas and Gnal Loci MolBioEvol.(in press)

3.Chung W, Wadhawan S, Szklarczyk R, Kosakovsky-Pond S, Nekrutenko A (2007) A First Look at ARFome: Dual-Coding Genes in Mammalian Genomes. PLoS Comput Biol. 3(5): e91.

4.Nekrutenko A, Wadhawan S, Goetting-Minesky P, Makova K (2005) Oscillating Evolution of a Mammalian Locus with Overlapping Reading Frames: An XLalphas/ALEX Relay. PLoS Genet. 1: 197-204.