Phone: (615) 327-6219

spratap@mmc.edu

Research Interests: Translational Systems Biology | Bioinformatics | Genomics | Proteomics.

Specialty: My lab focuses on computational genomics and bioinformatics approaches to make Genome-Wide Association studies for complex common disease (such as Alzheimers') more efficient as well as applying systems biology to this field.

As director of the Bioinformatics Core @ Meharry: Incorporating bioinformatics, systems biology, and translational applications and approaches towards enhancing and expanding collaborative research for all basic science and clinical researchers at Meharry.

Pratap S, Williams SM, Levy SE. 2008. Evaluation of pooled allelotyping versus individual genotyping for genome-wide association analysis of complex disease. UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2008 Cadiz, KY, USA.

Pratap S, Williams SM, Levy SE. 2007. Effects of Genotype error and Sample error on Genome-Wide SNP analysis using pooled DNA. International Health (Medical) Informatics Congress: MEDINFO 2007 Brisbane, Australia.

Pratap S, Levy SE. 2006. Bioinformatic tools for the design and evaluation of Genome-Wide SNP analysis using pooled DNA. NIH: National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Conference 2006 Nashville, TN, USA.

Boczko EM, Cooper TG, Gedeon T, Mischaikow K, Murdock DG, Pratap S, Wells KS. 2005. Structure theorems and the dynamics of nitrogen catabolite repression in yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (PNAS). Apr 19;102(16):5647-52.

Pratap S, Bibb K, Nde P, Lima MF, Villalta F. 2002. A cloned T. cruzi ligand binds to receptors on phagocytic and non-phagocytic cells to activate signal transduction pathways necessary for trypanosome invasion. FASEB J. 16(4)A304