Kokulapalan Wimalanathan

About Kokulapalan Wimalanathan

Experienced bioinformatics scientist with training in both dry-lab and wet-lab. Practical experience in protocols to generate sequencing data, applied statistics to design analysis pipelines, and web development tools to visualize results. In depth knowledge in ontologies and protein function prediction, as well as sequence analysis from multiple platforms and different types of experiments. Natural problem solving skills, and careful attention to details with creative and collaborative personality.

Experience

1. Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

   Atalanta Therapeutics

   Apr 2023 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Lead bioinformatics projects to enable transcriptomics, genomics, and other data-intensive analyses for pipeline enrichment- Mentor a team of talented junior scientists to enable bioinformatics and data-science efforts to improve drug safety and efficacy- Implement an in-house siRNA design algorithm with customized features to improve drug design focusing on chemistry and biology- Collaborate with lab teams on assay development to ensure scalable and high-quality data analysis- Deploy AWS cloud cyberinfrastructure for scalable data analysis and data security with external partner support.

Education

• Miami University

  Master of Science (MS), Botany/Plant Biology

  2009 — 2011

• Iowa State University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology

  2011 — 2018

• University of Colombo

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bioinformatics

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Mysql
• Gene Ontology
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr)
• Genomics
• Perl
• Bioinformatics
• Transcriptomics
• Science
• Life Sciences
• C++
• Pcr
• Dna Sequencing
• Computational Biology
• R
• Machine Learning
• Python
• Sequencing
• Linux
• Php
• Html
• Sequence Analysis
• Javascript
• Molecular Biology
• Go Annotation