Samir Wadhawan EDUCATION May (expected) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2003 present Graduate Research Assistant ,

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1 Samir Wadhawan Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics 505 Wartik Laboratory The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA Phone: Fax: srw194@psu.edu EDUCATION May (expected) Ph.D. Biochemsitry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology M.S. Biotechnology Huck Institute of Life Sciences, M.Sc. Biomedical Technology Department of Zoology, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India B.Sc. Zoology Department of Zoology, St. Xavierʹs College, Ahmedabad, India RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2003 present Graduate Research Assistant Anton Nekrutenko Lab Center for Comparative Genomics and BioInformatics, May 2003 August 2003 Technical Assistant Department of Pharmacology Toxicology, B.V. Patel Pharmaceutical Education & Research Development (PERD) Centre, Ahmedabad, India

2 PUBLICATIONS 1. Wadhawan S, Kosakovsky Pond S, Chung W, Wilson C, Chiaromonte F, Nekrutenko A (2008) Classifying Windshield Splatter (submitted) 2. Wadhawan S, Dickins B, Nekrutenko A (2008) Wheels within Wheels: Clues to the Evolution of the Gnas and Gnal Loci.MolBioEvol. (in press) 3. Chung W, Wadhawan S, Szklarczyk R, Kosakovsky Pond S, Nekrutenko A (2007) A First Look at ARFome: Dual Coding Genes in Mammalian Genomes. PLoS Comput Biol. 3(5): e Nekrutenko A, Wadhawan S, Goetting Minesky P, Makova K (2005) Oscillating Evolution of a Mammalian Locus with Overlapping Reading Frames: An XLalphas/ALEX Relay.PLoS Genet. 1: AWARDS Travel Fellowship Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics 2004 Phela Fay Braucher Scholarship for outstanding graduate student, 2002 The Dr. T.V. Venkatraman Prize for First in College Third year B.Sc. St. Xavier s College, Ahmedabad, India 2001 The Thomas O Neil Prize in Zoology St. Xavier s College, Ahmedabad, India ORAL / POSTER PRESENTATIONS P = Poster; O = Oral July 2008 Metagenomic Analysis with Galaxy: Windshield Genomics and Beyond (P) Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology Conference (ISMB), Toronto, Canada June 2007 Genome within a Gene: Untangling the Evolution of GNAS Locus (P) Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference (SMBE), Halifax, NS, Canada

3 June 2006 Characterization of XLalphaS / ALEX Evolution in Rodents (O) Evolution Conference (SSE), State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA May 2006 Dual Coding Genes in Mammalian Genomes (P) The Biology of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA March 2005 Oscillating Evolution of a Mammalian Locus with Overlapping Reading Frames: An XLalphas /ALEX Relay (O) Northeast Ecology and Evolution Conference (NEEC), The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA June 2004 Overlapping Coding Regions in Mammalian Genomes (O) Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference (SMBE), The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant BMMB 445W: Advance laboratory course in Molecular Biology BMMB 443W: Advance laboratory course in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology LABORATORY SKILLS Cellular & Molecular Techniques: DNA Sequencing, Cloning, Microarrays, DNA and RNA isolation, Karyotyping, Southern, Western and Northern Blotting, Monoclonal Antibody Production, Genotixicity studies: Micronucleus studies and Sister chromatid exchange, FISH, Banding techniques, Pedigree analysis, Tissue culture techniques, Blood culture, Histopathology, Cytochemical staining Instrumentation: Electron Microscopy, Digital Microscopy, Flow cytometry, Mass spectroscopy, Electrophoretic techniques, Chromatographic techniques, Photometry Biochemistry: Lipid profiles, Biochemical analysis of body fluids Assays: ELISA, Immune and Hormonal Assays Dissection: Cardiac cycle of frog and Heart perfusion of frog

4 COMPUTER SKILLS Languages: C, C++, Perl, Python, R, Relational Databases Operating Systems: DOS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS Reviewer: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Genetica Member: International Society for Computational Biology, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Institute for Molecular and Evolutionary Genetics TRAINING / VISITS September 2002 October 2002 Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, Ahmedabad, India Laboratory rotations in microbiology, genetics, immunology, endocrinology, pathology and biochemistry with exposure to latest techniques used in diagnosis and therapeutics. November 2001 Jeevraj Mehta Hospital, Ahmedabad, India Interacted with patients with most prevalent diseases and trained to identify symptoms of each disease and its possible treatment. October 2001 Green Cross Pathological Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India Hands on training in blood analysis.

5 REFERENCES Dr. Anton Nekrutenko Assistant Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 505 Wartik Laboratory Dr. Kateryna Makova Associate Professor Dept. of Biology 305 Wartik Laboratory Dr. Ross Hardison T. Ming Chu Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 304 Wartik Laboratory