Research Profile: Anup Madan, PhD (Adjunct Faculty)

He received his PhD in Biophysics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. He joined Leroy Hood’s lab in 1995 to work on sequencing and comparative sequence analysis to understand HIV's genetic diversity.

He played a major role in scaling up and automating the sequencing operations at Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington to sequence regions of human chromosome 14 and 15.

In April, 2000 he joined the Institute for Systems Biology as a senior research scientist and director of the sequencing facility. In August 2003 he joined the Dept. of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa where he directs the Neurogenomics Research Laboratory (NGRL).

Madan is currently an independently funded NIH investigator. His group is participating in Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) initiative to generate full length cDNA resource.

Madan is also directing an NIH funded microbial genomics program. His group has recently finished genomic sequencing of Mycoplasma gallassepticum, Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia akari and is working on genomes of Mycoplasma capricolum, Rickettsia Canada, Rickettsia bellii, Piscirickettsia salmonis, Orientia tsutsugamushi. The availability of the genomic sequences will be used to design novel tools for epidemiological studies and development of efficient diagnostic systems. Along with Greg Foltz, MD, he is working on the Brain Expression Database to catalogue the diverse repertoire of genes expressed in the human, mouse, rat, drosophila and honey bee brain.

• Neurogenomics Research Laboratory