SEMINAR:Predictive Genomics-based Metabolic Profiling of Human Gut...

Speaker: Dmitry Rodionov, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, USA

Title: Predictive Genomics-based Metabolic Profiling of Human Gut Microbiota

Date/Time: 22 May 2023 / 10:40 – 11:30

Place: FENS G029 (Physical Only)

Bio:Dmitry Rodionov holds a Master of Science (MS) in Biophysics from Moscow Engineer Physics University, and a PhD in Molecular Biology from Genetics Research Centre in Moscow, Russia. He has in-depth knowledge of bioinformatics and has made significant computational contributions to the field of microbial genomics and systems biology. Dmitry Rodionov has been involved in the development and application of bioinformatics approaches to the reconstruction of metabolic pathways and regulatory networks in microbial genomes. He pioneered the use of comparative genomics workflows and databases for transcriptional regulatory network inference and metabolic pathway reconstruction. His research focuses on several aspects, such as identifying binding sites for transcription factors, studying the evolution of metabolic pathways in archaea, and reconstructing riboswitch-mediated regulatory networks in bacterial genomes. Dmitry Rodionov has also been a leader in capturing knowledge of microbial metabolic pathways and applying it to uncharacterized bacterial species. In addition, he has developed bioinformatics pipelines for annotation of microbial genomes and metagenomically assembled genomes. With his expertise and experience, Dmitry Rodionov is well equipped to make significant contributions to research projects in comparative genomics, metabolic reconstruction, functional gene annotation, transcriptional networks, and metagenomics.