Shyam Prabhakar
Associate Director
Integrated Genomics
Genome Institute of Singapore
Singapore
Biography
EDUCATION 2000 PhD, Applied Physics, Stanford University 1992 BTech, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Shyam's Professional appointments and Education 2017- Senior Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore 2012- Associate Director, Integrative Genomics, Genome Institute of Singapore 2011-2017 Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore 2007-11 Senior Research Scientist, Genome Institute of Singapore 2003-07 Postdoctoral Fellow, EM Rubin lab, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2000-03 Postdoctoral Fellow, Samuel Karlin group, Dept. of Mathematics, Stanford University HONORS AND AWARDS 2008 First prize: poster competition at HUGO 13th Human Genome Meeting 2001 American Physical Society Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics COMMITTEE AND ADVISORY BOARD 2013 Grant review panel: bilateral grant call issued by BMBF (Germany) and ANR (France) 2014 Organizing committee: 9th Asian Epigenomics Meeting 2014-2016 Grant review Panel: A*STAR Young Investigator Grants 2015 Grant review panel: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) 2015 Grant Review Panel: Wellcome Trust 2015-... Assay Standards Working Group, International Human Epigenome Consortium 2016 Organizing committee: 15th International Conference On BioInformatics (InCOB 2016) 2016 International Coordinator: 11th Asian Epigenomics Meeting 2016 Symposium Chair: Inaugural Symposium, centre for Big Data and Integrative Genomics (c-BIG) 2017 International Coordinator: 12th Asian Epigenomics Meeting 2017 Enabling Platforms Working Group, National Precision Medicine Program, Singapore 2017 Symposium co-Chair: Joint Singapore-EMBL Symposium on Precision Medicine
Research Interest
Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, genome
