Juilee Thakar, PhD

Principal investigator, University of Rochester Medical Center

Juilee Thakar is the principal investigator at the Thakar Lab at the University of Rochester Medical Center (2022). The research is mainly based on the use of bioinformatics with datasets that include gene expression, single-cell RNA sequences, and signaling and metabolic pathways information (Research projects?). The lab has come forth with methodology to conduct pathway analysis with larger datasets in order to research elater effects of diseases and predictions of immune responses to vaccinations and infections (Research projects?).  findings?

Most recently Juliee has been involved in capturing and analyzing large datasets that document changes differences in RNA expression as animals (e.g. C.elegans) develop and change over a lifespan  (Front Aging- include proper ciation here).   Analyzing changes in RNA expression can be helpful in determining how gene and (therefore protein) expression changes during aging.  She is also involved in a longitudinal study that is gathering 5 years of questionnaire and patient sample data from mothers and infants in rural Mennonite and urban center communities to assess biomarkers that may correlate with the development of immunity and/or allergies. (Frontiers in Pediatrics reference goes here).

Fun Facts: 

Juilee Thakar completed her Bachelors in Science majoring in microbiology and mathematics at the University of Pune, India; later she completed a Masters in microbiology and computational biology (2022?). She also completed her PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Wurzburg, Germany in 2006 (2022). She has received many awards including: the

Cancer-Research-Institute fellowship, PhRMA research starter award informatics, and Novel Biostatistical and Epidemiologic Methods Awards in 2016-2017 (2022). She worked as a cancer research institute fellow at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and later became an associate research scientist in the department of pathology at the Yale School of Medicine, USA.