Summary
Sai Prakki is a computational biologist and researcher with 11 years' experience applying genomics and bioinformatics to infectious disease and lung single-cell research, currently working at Helmholtz Munich. He combines hands-on pipeline development in Python and R with expertise in nanopore, Illumina and PacBio sequencing to drive transmission and phylogenetic analyses of clinically relevant bacteria and to study drivers of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. His background spans bacterial genomics, genome assembly and annotation, pan-genome and SNP analyses, and high-throughput data management on HPC systems. Sai is experienced at translating complex genomic data into clear visualizations and reproducible workflows for cross-disciplinary teams, and has a track record of supporting outbreak studies and national surveillance efforts. Notably, he has moved between aquatic genomics and clinical pathogen genomics, giving him an uncommon perspective on comparative genomics and large-scale sequencing projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Bioinformatics, Bachelors Bioinformatics at Bharath University
MSc Bioinformatics, MSc Bioinformatics at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi