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