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Shishir Biswas

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University 2012

Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University 2014

Doctor of Philosophy, Biology, University of Kentucky 2021
Biography:

Born: July 20, 1990

Hometown: West Lafayette, IN

Hobbies: Tennis, Basketball, Football, Bourbon

Favorite Sports Teams: Purdue Athletics, Indiana Pacers, Indianapolis Colts

Research Interests:
Regeneration
Developmental Biology
Bioinformatics
Transcriptomics
Research

In 2021, I finished my PhD work in Ashley Seifert's lab working primarily on transcriptomics and regeneration within the African spiny mouse, Acomys spp. Afterwards I joined the Duncan Lab at University of Kentucky where I now work as a Bioinformatician and Computational Biologist and am working to develop new pipelines for analyzing different types of "-omic" data in the planarian flatowrm, Schmidtea mediterranea.