Sumir Panji

Name: Sumir Panji

Role: PhD Student

Contact Details

Telephone: +27 21 959 3645

Email: sumir(at)sanbi.ac.za

Research Area:

Cancer Informatics

Pathogen Informatics

Research Interests

I am interested in using novel genomic and high-throughput biological methods in order to disect and understand the plethora of multi-factorial events that occur during oncogenesis.

At present, I am delving into the world of pathogen informatics by developing a high throughput computational pipeline from existing bioinformatics tools that enables the rapid screening of pathogen genomes for genes under positive selection and putative virulence factors.

I am also a participant of the Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics program (SSABMI). This program has been established by the Fogarty foundation to promote Bioinformatics in Africa by identifying potential leaders in the field and providing them with an exceptional level of education.

Publications
Watch this space!!!!

Poster Contributions / Presentations

Cancer Gene Regulation from a Sex and Developmental Perspective, Sumir Panji, Oliver Hofman, Vladimir Bajic and Winston Hide. Genome Informatics 2006

The eVOC gene expression ontology as a resource: Integration of isoform, promoter elements and gene expression state? Discoveries in understanding cancer gene expression, Winston Hide, Vladimir Bajic, Sumir Panji, Adéle Kruger, Oliver Hofmann. Genome Informatics 2006

Comparing Mouse to Man: The next step in understanding the regulation of development and cancer in mammals, Oliver Hofmann, Sumir Panji, Adéle Kruger, Sin Lam Tan, Kenji Nakano, Chikatoshi Kai, Jun Kawai, Piero Carninci, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Vladimir B Bajic, Winston Hide. Genome Informatics 2005