Sheethal Umesh Nagalakshmi

Meet Sheethal Umesh Nagalakshmi, a Computational Biologist within the Spatial Technologies Unit. She is a highly skilled and motivated individual with a strong educational background and extensive professional experience in bioinformatics. She earned her Master of Science in Bioinformatics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Sheethal has acquired valuable hands-on experience through her roles as a Computational Biologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she analyzed single-cell RNA-Seq and spatial transcriptomics data. Additionally, as a Bioinformatics Analyst II at MedGenome Inc. in Foster City, she automated pipelines and conducted in-depth analyses of various sequencing datasets. She has also made contributions to research projects at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Rochester Institute of Technology, showcasing her ability to apply bioinformatics tools to explore gene expression patterns and chromatin accessibility.