Gurinder Singh “mickey” Atwal

Biography

Dr. Atwal is an Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and an adjunct faculty member of Stony Brook University. After a few years in medical school at the University of Cambridge, when biology was still largely a qualitative science, he opted to break his family’s heart by pursuing a PhD in theoretical physics. As the biological sciences emerges into the quantitative arena, Dr. Atwal finds himself going back almost full-circle, developing and deploying mathematical and computational tools to address quantitative principles governing the behavior of complex biological systems, ranging from biomolecular networks to the evolution of the species Homo sapiens. Fueled by large-scale genotyping technologies, he has recently focused on population genetics with a view to understanding the evolutionary forces at play on the genome and to underpin the genetics of some human diseases, including cancer, infertility and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Research Interest

Bioinformatics, Neuropsychiatry, Biology