Esophageal Microbiome in Healthy Children and Esophageal Eosinophilia.
Parashette KR, Sarsani VK, Toh E, Janga SC, Nelson DE, Gupta SK.
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2022 05 01. 74(5):e109-e114. PMID: 35149653
I am an applied statistician interested in translational genetics– particularly developing methods and systematic analysis to dissect the molecular mechanisms, prioritize gene targets, and predict disease risk of complex diseases by leveraging large-scale biobanks and multi-omics data.
I’m currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I obtained my Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During my Ph.D., I interned in the industry at Roche and Novartis. Prior to that, I was a computational scientist for 3.5 years at The Jackson Laboratory and obtained MS in Bioinformatics.
"An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem" - John Tukey
My philosophical view is best expressed by the above quote from John Tukey. While I enjoy both data analysis and methods development, at my core, I want to be useful and contribute to impactful science more than anything else. I strive to do work motivated by problems and relevant questions from scientific collaborators.
PhD, Statistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Postdoc, Statistical Genetics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MS, Bioinformatics
Indiana University
Mathematics Fellowship
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Parashette KR, Sarsani VK, Toh E, Janga SC, Nelson DE, Gupta SK.
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2022 05 01. 74(5):e109-e114. PMID: 35149653
Sarsani V, Aldikacti B, He S, Zeinert R, Chien P, Flaherty P.
PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 03. 18(3):e1009273. PMID: 35255084
He S, Schein A, Sarsani V, Flaherty P.
Ann Appl Stat. 2021 Jun. 15(2):925-951. PMID: 34262633
Giguere C, Dubey HV, Sarsani VK, Saddiki H, He S, Flaherty P.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2020 May 26. 21(1):215. PMID: 32456609
Woo XY, Srivastava A, Graber JH, Yadav V, Sarsani VK, Simons A, Beane G, Grubb S, Ananda G, Liu R, Stafford G, Chuang JH, Airhart SD, Karuturi RKM, George J, Bult CJ.
BMC Med Genomics. 2019 07 01. 12(1):92. PMID: 31262303
Sarsani VK, Raghupathy N, Fiddes IT, Armstrong J, Thibaud-Nissen F, Zinder O, Bolisetty M, Howe K, Hinerfeld D, Ruan X, Rowe L, Barter M, Ananda G, Paten B, Weinstock GM, Churchill GA, Wiles MV, Schneider VA, Srivastava A, Reinholdt LG.
G3 (Bethesda). 2019 06 05. 9(6):1795-1805. PMID: 30996023
Presa M, Racine JJ, Dwyer JR, Lamont DJ, Ratiu JJ, Sarsani VK, Chen YG, Geurts A, Schmitz I, Stearns T, Allocco J, Chapman HD, Serreze DV.
J Immunol. 2018 10 01. 201(7):1907-1917. PMID: 30127089
De Abreu FB, Peterson JD, Deharvengt SJ, Daber R, Sarsani VK, Spotlow V, Harrington RD, Lih CJ, Williams PM, Bouk CH, Konigshofer Y, Huang C, Anekella B, Davis L, Garlick RK, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Dumur CI, Fernandes H, Haralampu S, Tsongalis GJ.
J Appl Lab Med. 2017 Sep 01. 2(2):138-149. PMID: 32630970
Srivastava A, Morgan AP, Najarian ML, Sarsani VK, Sigmon JS, Shorter JR, Kashfeen A, McMullan RC, Williams LH, Giusti-Rodríguez P, Ferris MT, Sullivan P, Hock P, Miller DR, Bell TA, McMillan L, Churchill GA, de Villena FP.
Genetics. 2017 06. 206(2):537-556. PMID: 28592495
Kloepfer KM, Sarsani VK, Poroyko V, Lee WM, Pappas TE, Kang T, Grindle KA, Bochkov YA, Janga SC, Lemanske RF, Gern JE.
J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2017 07. 140(1):312-315.e8. PMID: 28327377