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Venkatesh Moktali

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Education

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

The Huck Institute of Lifesciences (Integrative Biosciences)

Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics & Genomics

Fall 2012

Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore, India

School of Biotechnology and Chemical Sciences

Bachelor of Technology in Bioinformatics

May 2006

Experience

Research AssistantPenn State University, University Park, PA

Phylogenomic analysis of Cytochrome P450 family in Fungi

Development of Fungal Cytochrome P450 database: http://p450.riceblast.snu.ac.kr/

Optimized clustering of Cytochrome P450 sequences using TribeMCL

Evolutionary genomic analysis of Calcium signaling pathway in Fungi

Comparative Genomic analysis to understand the expansions and contractions

that occur in gene families under intense selection pressure, especially in fungi.

08/07 - present

Summer InternJ. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD

Identifying Heterokaryon Incompatibility (HET) genes in Aspergillus fumigatus by

comparison of genomic reads and using hidden markov models.

Annotation of Aspergillus parasiticus genome

05/11 - 08/11Software ConsultantInfosys Technologies Ltd, India

Used RDF and semantic web ontologies to develop use cases to demonstrate applications

translational research.

Created use cases with Microsoft SharePoint as a tool to allow data sharing across

various projects in translational research.

Worked with a group of consultants to provide domain expertise for building internal

solutions for pharmaceutical industry.

06/06 - 06/07

Awards

USDA-AFRI Fellow ( Microbial Genomics initiative 2010-2012)

Evolutionary Genomics Workshop student award (Max Planck Institutes, Germany 2011)

25th Fungal Genetics Conference Travel award (March 2009)

Huck Institute of Lifesciences Fellowship (2007-08).

Skills

Large scale data mining, Sequence analysis, Phylogenetic analysis, Genomics, Python,

Proteomics, Semantic web, HTML, MYSQL

Publications

Natalie D. Fedorova, Venkatesh Moktali and Marnix H. Medema Bioinformatics approaches

and software for detection of secondary metabolic gene clusters Book Chapter, Methods in

Molecular Biology, Springer Publications (Submitted)

Venkatesh Moktali, Jongsun Park, Yong-Hwan Lee, Seogchan Kang Evolutionary genomic

analysis of fungal Cytochrome P450 proteins with Fungal Cytochrome P450 Database 1.2

(manuscript in preparation)

Venkatesh Moktali, Seogchan Kang Evolutionary genomic analysis of Cytochrome P450

proteins from the genus Aspergillus (manuscript in preparation)

Professional Affiliations

ISCB, Plant Pathology Association, Genetics Society of America

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