Balamuralikrishna Jayaprakash

Name: Balamuralikrishna Jayaprakash
Year of birth: 1987
Official title: Researcher
Tel. 029 524 6666
E-mail: balamuralikrishna.jayaprakash(at)thl.fi

Expertise

  • Programming, Machine Learning, Statistics, Bioinformatics
  • Microbiome and Metagenomics - BigData analysis
  • Indoor Air and Water Environmental Research

Primary duties

  • Researcher and Bioinformatics specialist
  • Establishing and maintaining Bioinformatics analysis pipelines for NGS data
  • Translational Scientist(Translating computational knowledge on Indoor environmental data)

Education

  • Master of Science (Major : Computational Systems Biology), Aalto University (2012)
  • Master of Science (Major : Biotechnology), KTH royal Institute of technology, Sweden (2009)

Professional background

  • 2013–Present, Researcher and Bioinformatician, TEYMTHL
  • 2012-2013 Bioinformatician, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 2011-2012: Research Assistant, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Language skills

  • English (good)
  • Tamil (native)

Publications and research

  • Jayaprakash, B  et al (2017). Indoor microbiota in severely moisture damaged homes and the impact of interventions. Microbiome 5:138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0356-5
  • Leppänen HK, Täubel M, Jayaprakash B et al. (2019) Quantitative assessment of microbes from samples of indoor air and dust. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol.  doi: 10.1038/jes.2017.24.
  • Salojärvi, J., …, Jayaprakash, B et al (2017). Genome sequencing and population genomic analyses provide insights into the adaptive landscape of silver birch. Nature Genetics doi:10.1038/ng.3862.
  • Inkinen, J., Jayaprakash, B., Santo Domingo, J. W., Keinänen Toivola, M. M., Ryu, H., & Pitkänen, T. (2016). Diversity of ribosomal 16S DNA and RNA based bacterial community in an office building drinking water system. Journal of applied microbiology, 120(6), 1723-1738.

More information online

ResearchGate: Balamuralikrishna_Jayaprakash