Room 333 Wisenbaker (fishbowl)

Binay Panda
Bio-IT Centre, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore

Abstract:

Conversation with Dr. Panda on challenges for biologists and engineers: Hardware, software, and everything else.

Bio:

Binay Panda received his Ph.D. from University of Oxford, UK and was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA. Before returning to India to set up the Bio-IT Centre, he co-founded a molecular diagnostics startup company in the San Francisco bay area with focus on early detection of cancer using genetic markers. Binay also worked as a visiting researcher of genome science at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His current research interest includes cancer genomics, synthetic biology and computational biology. Binay is a visiting professor at the Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center at the Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore.

Host: Dr. Kumar