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Arjun Krishnan

379-7 Virginia Bioinformatics Institute,
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Blacksburg, VA 24061

Tel: +001 540 231 4799




Recent present ... favorites(!)

Book(s): Critical Mass (Philip Ball)

Movie(s): Inception, Toy Story 3 and the Social Network: three amazing movies of 2010! 

Music: Wim Mertens

Video/Talk(s): The Story of Stuff

Product(s)/Service(s): Evernote

I'm a recent Ph.D. graduate, working in computational systems biology - mainly on inferring gene functional interaction networks and regulatory programs underlying environmental stress response in plants.

My academic interests include molecular interaction networks, gene regulation, comparative genomics, protein sequence-structure-function relationships and functional genomics.

I dabble with number theory, graph theory, computer programming, adaptive systems, self-organization, complexity, chaos & fractals.

Bio...

I recently graduated from the Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program, Virginia Tech, working with Dr. Andy Pereira at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute on Plant Stress Systems Biology. I'm currently doing a spell of postdoctoral research in the same lab.

I did my B.Tech in Biotechnology at the Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai, India. There I worked with Prof. Gautam Pennathur in various projects in computational biology.

I worked with Dr. Nagasuma Chandra at the Bioinformatics Centre, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for my bachelor's thesis.

My schooling roots extend (backwards) to DAV Boys Sr. Sec. School - last 2 years, National Public School - mid 5 years, & Adarsh Vidhyalaya Branch School - the first 7 years, all in Chennai.

Basically, I'm an authentic 'Chennai-Boy' who grew up amidst the buzz of the wonderful Triplicane area.

Inspiration

"The same thrill, the same awe and mystery comes again and again when we look at any question deeply enough. With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, luring one to penetrate deeper still. Never concerned that the answer may prove disappointing, with pleasure and confidence we turn around each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries - certainly a grand adventure!"                      - Richard Feynman