Dr. Priti Talwar Burnham Institute for Medical Research 10901 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037 Telephone: +1 858-646-3100 extn 4309 Email: ptalwar@burnham.org New Email id: ptalwar@ucsd.edu Skype id : punnu_talwar

I have moved to Center for Renal Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, UCSD. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Dr. Andrei Osterman and Dr. Adam Godzik at Burnham Institute for Medical Research(BIMR). I have done my doctoral work under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Thomas Lengauer (Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics group) at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany.

Research Interests

• Computational methods for Biomarker discovery in Diabetes and Kidney diseases
• Computational Systems Biology
• Integrative Bioinformatics
• Clinical Research
• Computational Biology methods for pathways and disease modeling
• PathwayDB and CutDB database
• Computational methods for metabolic network analysis

Awards and Employment

• 2009-Present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Renal Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, UCSD, USA.
• 2007-2009: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, USA.
• 2005-2007: Researcher(Ph.D. student) at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany.
• 2004-2005: Marie Curie Doctoral Research Fellowship, International Max Planck Research School, Germany.
• 2002-2004: Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany.
• 2002: Scientist (Bioinformatics), Molecular Connections Ltd., India.
• 2001: Scientist, GVK Biosciences, India.
• 2000: Bioinformatics Software Designer, ForScience, India.

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D.(Bioinformatics), Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics Group, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany (2002-2007)
  Thesis: Development of computational methods for metabolic network analysis based on metabolomics data
  Advisor: Prof. Thomas Lengauer
• Advanced Diploma (Bioinformatics), Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, India (2000)
  Thesis: Comparison of Multiple Sequence Alignment programs
  At: National PARAM Supercomputing Facility, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India
  Advisor: Dr. V. Sundararajan
• M.Sc. (Biotechnology), Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India (1998)
  Thesis: Study of IgA response in Tuberculosis, Asthma and Bronchitis patients
  At: Government Hospital, Amritsar, India
• B.Sc. (Chemistry), St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India (1996)

Professional Activities

Member of the Program Committee, Joint Automated Function Prediction(AFP)-Biosapiens SIG, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology(ISMB), Toronto, 2008.

Publications

Publications

Igarashi Y, Heureux E, Doctor KS, Talwar P, Gramatikova S, Gramatikoff K, Zhang Y, Blinov M, Ibragimova SS, Boyd S, Ratnikov B, Cieplak P, Godzik A, Smith JW, Osterman AL and AM Eroshkin.
PMAP: Databases for analyzing proteolytic events and pathways.
Nucleic Acids Research, Database Issue, 2009 (in press).

Talwar P, Schmidt M, Brill L, Wolf DA.
Computational analysis of the S. pombe proteome and transcriptome under oxidative stress condition.
North American Regional Pombe Meeting, Los angeles, June 6-8, 2008 (conference talk).

Velagapudi VR, Wittmann C, Lengauer T, Talwar P and E Heinzle.
Metabolic high- content screening of Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals superior performance of single gene deletion strains.
Process Biochemistry, 41:2170-2179, 2006.

Hahn A, Rahnenfuehrer J, Talwar P and T Lengauer.
Confirmation of human protein interaction data by human expression data.
BMC Bioinformatics, 6:112, 2005.

Talwar P, Lengauer T, Wittmann C and E Heinzle.
A software tool for automated processing of ¹³C labeling data from mass spectrometric spectra.
BioTechniques, 35:1214-1215, 2003.

Talwar P, Das I, Appaiah MM, Loganathan U, See-Kiong Ng, Wong L and S Nair
Challenges in Developing a Post-genome Knowledge Database
In: Int. Society for Human Genomics, 27th Annual Meeting, Trivandrum, India, P21(71), 2002.

Refereed Conference Abstracts

Talwar P, Lengauer T, Wittmann C, Velagapudi V, Heinzle E (2006).
Development of Computational Methods for Analysis of Metabolic Profiling Data
Accepted In: International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2006),Pacifico Yokohama , Japan.

Talwar P, Lengauer T, Rahnenfuehrer J, Heinzle E, Velagapudi V, Wittmann C (2005).
Towards computational analysis of metabolic profiling data for protein function prediction.
In: Yeast Systems Biology, 6th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2005), Boston, USA.

Talwar P, Lengauer T, Rahnenfuehrer J, Wittmann C, Velagapudi V, Heinzle E (2005)
Computational Methods for Protein Function Prediction using Metabolomics Data
In: International Workshop on Systems Biology 2005, Milan, Italy.

Talwar P, Lengauer T, Rahnenfuehrer J, Velagapudi V, Wittmann C, Heinzle E (2004)
Computational Methods For Metabolite Screening
In: 5th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2004), Heidelberg, Germany.

Talwar P, Lengauer T, Rahnenfuehrer J, Velagapudi V, Wittmann C, Heinzle E (2004)
Computational Methods For Metabolite Screening
In: 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology + 3rd European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2004), Glasgow, UK.

Talwar P, Lengauer T, Wittmann C, Mangadu V, Heinzle E (2003)
Towards cellular function through metabolite screening
In: Metabolic Profiling: Pathways in Discovery, Abstract 7, Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conference.
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