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Arjun Krishnan

GBCB Graduate Research Assistant
379-7 Virginia Bioinformatics Institute,
Washington Street, MC 0477
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Tel: +001 540 231 4799




Recent present ... favorites(!)

Book(s): Onnarai Pakka Naaledu (Tamil) (Cho Ramaswamy); The Origins of Genome Architechture (Michael Lynch)

Movie(s): Up - An extraordinary tale that is outrageous, funny, and, most importantly, touching. For me, Pixar scores to its fullest potential after Cars. I bow to you, Pete and team! Partly Clouded (Short Film) is superb!

Angels and Demons - A neat thriller, well supported by a great background score. Cake walk for Tom Hanks. I consider both The Da Vinci Code and A&D very good adaptations of the respective books. Well done, Howard!

Music: Yanni. Until the last moment; Nostalgia. I'm listening to these the nth time.

Video/Talk(s): iPhone Ads

Product(s)/Service(s): Glims - The Inquisitor equivalent for Safari 4. iPhone 3G S.

I'm a research student, working in Systems Biology - mainly on analysis of large-scale gene expression profiles, regulatory network inference and sequence analysis.

My academic interests include Computational Biology, Cancer Biology , Molecular Evolution & Cellular Automata.

I dabble with Number Theory, Graph Theory, Computer Programming, Linux, Swarm Intelligence, Adaptive Systems, Self-organization, Artificial Life, Complexity, Chaos & Fractals.


Bio...

I'm a GBCB Graduate Research Assistant in Computational Biology at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. I work with Dr. Andy Pereira at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute on Plant Stress Systems Biology.

I did my B.Tech in Biotechnology at the Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai. 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