Vani Ikkurti

Post Doctoral Fellow, Dr. James Wasmuth, Dept. Ecosystem and Public Health

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary

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BSc - Biotechnology

University of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Science, India

PhD - Bioinformatics

University of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Science, India

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Biography

Dr. Vani Ikkurti joined the HPI group as a post-doctoral fellow in December 2017. She is working under the supervision of Dr. James Wasmuth, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Calgary.  Vani received her BSc in Biotechnology and her PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Science, India.

She is currently working on Genome Scale metabolic reconstruction: a targeted approach to discover new anthelmintic Drugs. Her research interest is in Genomic data analysis, Molecular drug designing through comparative genomics and metabolomics.