SBASSE Biology Seminars 2016
Next Generation Sequencing with Application to Bioinformatics Screening for Candidate Mutations
Guest Speaker: Dr. Shumaila Sayyab
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Venue: Smart Room, 5th Floor, SBASSE
Host: Dr. Syeda Kahkeshan Hijazi
Abstract
Next generation sequencing (NGS) technology has significantly decreased the cost of whole genome sequencing and has traditionally been generated by large genome centers. With the introduction of smaller and less expensive “desktop” systems, NGS are now moving into the general laboratory. These technologies have allowed the researchers to efficiently map the disease to a gene and associate the phenotype to the genotype.
Biography
Dr. Shumaila Sayyab has done her PhD in Bioinformatics from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Sweden in 2014 followed by a short term postdoc at Uppsala University, 2015. She has served as assistant professor at RCMS NUST, Pakistan. The main area of her research is about the bioinformatics screening of mutations using Next generation sequencing data and Genome wide association studies (GWAS). In 2014, Dr. Sayyab coauthored a study “Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication” at Uppsala University, Sweden and collaborators from Broad MIT institute USA, which is now published in one of the leading international science journal.
