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Principal Investigator

shankar@sdsc.edu

Shankar Subramaniam is Professor and Chair of Bioengineering and Director of the Bioinformatics Graduate Program at the University of California at San Diego. 

He also has adjunct Professorships at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He is also a Guest Professor at the Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at the University of Oslo in Norway and Professor at the Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling at Johns Hopkins University.

He has played a key role in raising national awareness for training and research in bioinformatics. Research in Subramaniam laboratory spans several areas of bioinformatics and systems biology.  In bioinformatics he is involved in developing novel strategies for identifying protein interaction networks, intracellular localization of proteins and identification of functional networks in cells.In systems biology he is involved in deciphering mammalian cellular networks from high throughput and phenotypic data and in developing strategies for modeling cellular signaling networks. He collaborates with biomedical scientists towards understanding diseases associated with insulin resistance and inflammation. His laboratory is interested in mapping the circuitry of the macrophage cells. He continues to be engaged in developing state-of-the-art infrastructure for bioinformatics.

Administration

Risa Shibata

rshibata@sdsc.edu

858-822-3228