Srikar Chamala, PhD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology

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Overview

Srikar Chamala, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He also serves as Director of the Center for Pathology Informatics and Data Science at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The major areas of research interest include clinical genome informatics, cancer disparity informatics, pathology informatics and data analytics, and translational bioinformatics.

Education and Training

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA — PhD — 05/2014 — Bioinformatics / Comparative Genomics
  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA — MS — 05/2008 — Bioinformatics
  • Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA — BS — 12/2006 — Bioinformatics

Publications

  • Rapid, repeated, and clustered loss of duplicate genes in allopolyploid plant populations of independent origin. Curr Biol. 2012 Feb 07; 22(3):248-52.. View in PubMed
  • A physical map for the Amborella trichopoda genome sheds light on the evolution of angiosperm genome structure. Genome Biol. 2011; 12(5):R48.. View in PubMed
  • Characterization of duplicate gene evolution in the recent natural allopolyploid Tragopogon miscellus by next-generation sequencing and Sequenom iPLEX MassARRAY genotyping. Mol Ecol. 2010 Mar; 19.. View in PubMed
  • Evolutionary selective pressure on three mitochondrial SNPs is consistent with their influence on metabolic efficiency in Pima Indians. Int J Bioinform Res Appl. 2007; 3(4):504-22.. View in PubMed