Dr. Sadia Akter

Postdoctoral Fellow (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri

akters@missouri.edu

Short Bio

Sadia Akter is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri. She is currently working with the development of computational framework to analyze genetic diversity of influenza virus and comparative genome analyses of E. Coli strains. She received her PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Missouri. Her research interest focuses in the area of Statistical Genomics, Translational Bioinformatics, Precision Medicine, Computational Biology, Data Mining and Machine Learning. She has co-authored eight peer-reviewed publications. Her research work was selected for oral presentations in prestigious international conferences such as American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Informatics Summit 2020, ISCB Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) 2019 and IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2018. Her posters were awarded first place for two consecutive years (2018 and 2019) in the University of Missouri Life Sciences Week in the category of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. She is the recipient of an NIH travel award to attend the GLBIO 2019.