Current address:

Clinical Bioinformatics Lab, Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory
University College Dublin, Belfield
Dublin, Co Dublin
Ireland

Education:

PhD in Bioinformatics
UCD CASL University College Dublin, Ireland
2006 -

Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 2001

Experience:

Bioinformatics Research Fellow Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain 2003 - 2006

Bioinformatics Software Developer Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India 2002 - 2003

Bioinformatics Project Trainee Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India 2001 - 2002

Skills:

C, CPP, PERL, PHP, Python, Java, SQL BioPERL, BioPython, Pascal, Visual Basic, Unix shell scripting Language

Javascript, CGI in C and Perl, ASP, LAMP (Open Source Web Platform)

HTML, DHTML, LaTeX

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Access

BLAST, FASTA, PSI-BLAST, CLUSTALX, CLUSTALW, GENEPARSER, DNASTAR

Activities:

PLoS Indivisual Membership

IEEE Student Membership

ISCB Student Membership

Interests:

Comparative Genomics

Genome Evolution

Phylogeny

HIV

References:

Mira A., Pushker R. and Rodriguez-Valera F. (2006) The Neolithic revolution of bacterial genomes. Trends in Microbiology, 14(5):200-206.

D'Auria G., Pushker R. and Rodriguez-Valera F. (2006) IWoCS: analyzing ribosomal Intergenic Transcribed Spacer configuration and taxonomic relationships. Bioinformatics,

Mira A. and Pushker R. (2005) The silencing of pseudogenes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22(11):2135-2138.

Pushker R., D'Auria G., Alba-Casado J.C. and Rodriguez-Valera F. (2005) Micro-Mar: a database for dynamic representation of marine microbial biodiversity. BMC Bioinformatics, 6:222.

Pushker R., Mira A. and Rodriguez-Valera F. (2004) Comparative Genomics of Gene Family Size in Closely Related Bacteria. Genome Biology, 5:R27.

Other:

Homepage: http://www.pushker.org

Micro-Mar: http://egg.umh.es/micromar

IWoCS: http://egg.umh.es/iwocs