Philipp Kapranov
Director
Bioinformatics
The St. Laurent Institute
Russian Federation
Biography
Philipp Kapranov got his Ph.D. in 2000 in Genetics from Michigan State University. In the past decade he has been primarily involved in the unbiased mapping of transcribed regions in the human genome and elements that regulate transcription of annotated and un-annotated RNAs
Research Interest
systems biology and genomics in the context of gene expression and discovery of new RNA species (both protein-coding and non-coding) and their functions