Dr.jai Prakash Mehta

Biography

 Dr. Jai Prakash Mehta is a Bioinformatician with extensive experience working on Next Generation Sequencing and other high throughput 'omics' technologies. He is a member of the Systems Biology Group at UCD Conway Institute of Bimolecular & Biomedical Research. His current research interests include Neuroblastoma and developing MYCN transcriptional network using high throughput genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics data obtained from cell lines and clinical samples.  Dr. Mehta also gained rich experience at Sequencing Core Facility, UCD Conway Institute of Bimolecular & Biomedical Research, where he managed and analyzed sequencing data generated from Illumina sequencers. His extensive working knowledge of the industry comes from his tenure as Principal Bioinformatics Specialist at Ocimum Biosolutions, Hyderabad, where he worked on algorithms and software development for gene expression data analysis.  Dr. Mehta received his PhD from National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology at Dublin City University, Ireland, for his work on gene expression in the disease breast cancer. He studied bioinformatics at Pune University.

Research Interest

 Molecular Biology