Sourav Chatterji, Ph.D.
Genome Center, University of California at Davis.
5313 Genome and Biosciences Facility, Davis, California 95616
schatterji@ucdavis.edu
Tel: (530) 752-8409
I.
Professional Preparation
Predoctoral:
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Computer Science Bachelor of Technology 2001
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Computational and Genomic Biology Designated
Emphasis (Minor) 2006
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Computer Science Doctor of Philosophy 2006
Postdoctoral:
University of California, Davis, CA
Bioinformatics/Genomics
2006-present
II. Publications
Relevant Publications
1. Sourav Chatterji, Ichitaro Yamazaki, Zhaojun Bai and Jonathan Eisen (2008). CompostBin: A
DNA composition-based algorithm for binning environmental shotgun reads , to appear in
Proceedings of the eighth annual international conference on Research in computational
molecular biology.
2. Sourav Chatterji and Lior Pachter (2006). GeneMapper: Reference based gene annotation,
Genome Biology, 7(4):R29.
3. Sourav Chatterji and Lior Pachter (2005). Large multiple organism genefinding by collapsed
Gibbs sampling, Journal of Computational Biology, 12 p 599–608.
4. Drosophila Comparative Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium (2007). Evolution of
genes and genomes in the context of the Drosophila phylogeny, Nature, 450 p 203-218.
5. Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium (2004). Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat
yields insights into mammalian evolution,Nature 428(6982):493-521.
Other Significant Publications
1. Adam M. Breier, Sourav Chatterji, and Nicholas R. Cozzarelli (2004). Prediction of
Saccharomycescerevisiae replication origins, Genome Biology 5(4):R22.
2. Sourav Chatterji and Lior Pachter (2007). Patterns of gene duplication and intron loss in the
ENCODE regions suggest a confounding factor, Genomics, 90 p44-48.
3. Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium (2004) Sequence and comparatve analysis of
chicken genome provide unique perspectives into vertebrate evolution, Nature
432(7018):695-716.
4. Sourav Chatterji, Manikandan Narayanan, Jason Duell, Leonid Oliker (2003): Performance
Evaluation of Two Emerging Media Processors: VIRAM and Imagine, in Proceesings of
the 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
5. Sourav Chatterji, Sai Surya Kiran Evani, Sumit Ganguly, Mahesh Datt Yemmanuru (2002). On
the Complexity of Approximate Query Optimization, in Proceedings of the Twenty-first
ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, p282-292.
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III.
Synergistic Activities and Service
Bioinformatics Tutorial at Single Cell Genomics Workshop, Bigelow Labs, September 2007.
Program Committee : RECOMB Comparative Genomics, 2007.
Reviewer: PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS One, Journal of Computational Biology, Nucleic
Acids Research, Genome Biology, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics(TCBB).
IV.
Collaborators & Other Affiliations
Collaborators : Tanja Woyke (Joint Genome Institue), Ramunas Stepanauskas (Bigelow Labs),
Martin Wu (UC Davis), Dongying Wu (UC Davis), Luca Giuggioli (Princeton University), Simon
Levin (Princeton University)
Graduate Advisors and Postdoctoral Sponsors : Lior Pachter (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Eisen
(UC Davis)
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