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Abhishek Kumar, Ph.D.
Faculty Scientist
 
Institute of Bioinformatics
Discoverer Building, International Tech Park, Whitefield
Bangalore - 560 066
E-mail: abhishek at ibioinformatics dot org
Phone: +91-80-28416140 Fax: +91-80-28416132
 
Education
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
M.Sc. in Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
 

Positions Held
Research Associate, Institute for Botany, Kiel University (CAU), Germany 2018 – 2019
Research Scientist, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany 2014 – 2018
Research Associate, Kiel University (CAU), Germany 2011 – 2014 
 

Area of Specialization
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Transcriptomics
 

Research Interests
Application of Multi-omics approaches to human diseases
Multi-omics approaches for drug discovery from microbes
Evolutionary Genomics
Biodiversity Genomics
 

Publications

Research articles: 78; Review articles: 1; Book: 2; Book chapters: 1

Parveen, A., Kumar, R., Tandon, R., Khurana, S., Goswami, C., and Kumar, A. (2019). Genomics Mutational hotspots of HSP47 and its potential role in cancer and bone- disorders. Genomics. In Press. (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Parveen, A., Khurana, S., and Kumar, A. (2019). Overview of Genomic Tools for Circular Visualization in the Next- generation Genomic Sequencing Era. Current Genomics, 20(2), 90-99. (*Corresponding Author) [Article]
Kumar, A., Bandapalli, O. R., Paramasivam, N., Giangiobbe, S., Diquigiovanni, C., Bonora, E., Eils, R., Schlesner, M., Hemminki, K., and Försti, A. (2018). Familial Cancer Variant Prioritization Pipeline version 2 (FCVPPv2) applied to a papillary thyroid cancer family. Scientific Reports. 8(1), 11635-11635. (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Cherukumilli, M., Mahmoudpour, S. H., Brand, K., and Bandapalli, O. R. (2018). ShRNA-mediated knock-down of CXCL8 inhibits tumor growth in colorectal liver metastasis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 500(3). [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Sørensen, J. L., Hansen, F. T., Arvas, M., Syed, M. F., Hassan, L., Benz, J. P., Record, E., Henrissat, B., Pöggeler, S., and Kempken, F. (2018). Genome sequencing and analyses of two marine fungi from the North Sea unraveled a plethora of novel biosynthetic gene clusters. Scientific Reports. 8(1), 1-16. [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Bhandari, A., Sarde, S. J., and Goswami, C. (2017). Ancestry molecular evolutionary analyses of heat shock protein 47 kDa (HSP47/SERPINH1). Scientific Reports. 7: 10394 (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Saha, S., Ghosh, A., Tiwari, N., Kumar, A., Kumar, A., and Goswami, C. (2017). Preferential selection of Arginine at the lipid-water-interface of TRPV1 during vertebrate evolution correlates with its snorkeling behaviour and cholesterol interaction. Scientific Reports. 7(1), 16808-16808. [PubMed]
Kumar, A. (2017). Genomic Data Mining Unraveled Potential Biocompass in Fruit Flies Using and Current Status of Magneto Genetics. International Journal of Genomics and Data Mining, 2017(02), JDMG-106. [Article]
Kumar, A., Bhandari, A., Sarde, S. J., Muppavarapu, S., and Tandon, R. (2015). Understanding V(D)J recombination initiator RAG1 gene using molecular phylogenetic and genetic variant analyses and upgrading missense and non-coding variants of clinical importance. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 462(4), 301-313. (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Henrissat, B., Arvas, M., Syed, M. F., Thieme, N., Benz, J. P., Sørensen, J. L., Record, E., Pöggeler, S., and Kempken, F. (2015). De Novo Assembly and Genome Analyses of the Marine-Derived Scopulariopsis brevicaulis Strain LF580 Unravels Life-Style Traits and Anticancerous Scopularide Biosynthetic Gene Cluster. PLoS ONE. 10(10), e0140398-e0140398. [PubMed]
Kumar, A. (2015). Bayesian phylogeny analysis of vertebrate serpins illustrates evolutionary conservation of the intron and indels based six groups classification system from lampreys for ~500 MY. PEERJ, 1-2. (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Bhandari, A., Sarde, S. J., and Goswami, C. (2014a). Genetic variants and evolutionary analyses of heparin cofactor II. Immunobiology. 219(9), 713-728. (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Bhandari, A., Sarde, S. J., and Goswami, C. (2014b). Molecular phylogeny of C1 inhibitor depicts two immunoglobulin-like domains fusion in fishes and ray-finned fishes specific intron insertion after separation from zebrafish. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 450(1), 219-226. (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Congiu, L., Lindström, L., Piiroinen, S., Vidotto, M., and Grapputo, A. (2014). Sequencing, De Novo Assembly and Annotation of the Colorado Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, Transcriptome. PLoS ONE. 9(1), e86012-e86012. [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Sarde, S. J., and Bhandari, A. (2014). Revising angiotensinogen from phylogenetic and genetic variants perspectives. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Bhandari, A., Sarde, S. J., and Goswami, C. (2013). Sequence, phylogenetic and variant analyses of antithrombin III. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 440(4), 714-724. (*Corresponding Author) [PubMed]
Kumar, A., Kollath-Leiß, K., and Kempken, F. (2013). Characterization of bud emergence 46 (BEM46) protein: sequence, structural, phylogenetic and subcellular localization analyses. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 438(3), 526-532. [PubMed]
Kumar, A. and Ragg, H. (2008). Ancestry and evolution of a secretory pathway serpin. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8, 250-250. [PubMed]