Amrit Koirala (PhD)
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates
I am a bioinformatician by profession working at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. During my PhD research at SDSU, I realized the enormity of sequencing data and the potential knowledge that could be mined from the publicly available databases like Genebank and Uniprot. This ignited my interest into the bioinformatics and eventually I completed master’s in data science to get the firm grasp of cutting-edge techniques in bigdata management and machine learning. I have an extensive experience working with genomic data, phylogenetic analysis, gene expression data and other omics. R and python are my favorite computer languages and I like learning and teaching new statistical methods specialized for the study of multiple -omics data in biology.
Area of expertise
Data science being an inter-disciplinary subject needs expertise in range of fields. I would like to delineate my area of interest and expertise burrowing the concept of data science venn diagram by Drew Conway.
Education
South Dakota State University, SD, USA
- Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, General 2016 - 2021
- Master’s Degree, Data Science. Programme ranked second best by Intelligent. 2018 - 2020
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Masters of Science, Medical Microbiology 2012 -2015
- Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Microbiology 2009 - 2012
Publications
Koirala, Amrit. 2021. “Free-Living Diazotrophs and the Nitrogen Cycle in Natural Grassland Revealed by Culture Dependent and Independent Approaches.” PhD thesis, South Dakota State University.
Agrahari, Gaurav, Amrit Koirala, Roshan Thapa, Mahesh Kumar Chaudhary, and Reshma Tuladhar. 2019. “Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns and Plasmid Profiles of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Isolated from Clinical Samples.” Nepal Journal of Biotechnology 7 (1): 8–14.
Koirala, Amrit, Gaurav Agrahari, Nabaraj Dahal, Prakash Ghimire, and KR Rijal. 2017. “ESBL and MBL Mediated Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Nonfermentating Gram Negative Bacilli (NFGNB) in Nepal.” J Microb Antimicrob Agents 3 (1): 18–24.
Koirala, Amrit, and Volker S Brözel. 2021. “Phylogeny of Nitrogenase Structural and Assembly Components Reveals New Insights into the Origin and Distribution of Nitrogen Fixation Across Bacteria and Archaea.” Microorganisms 9 (8): 1662.
Tamang, Kamal, Pashupati Shrestha, Amrit Koirala, Jagat Khadka, Narayan Gautam, and Komal Raj Rijal. 2018. “Prevalence of Bacterial Uropathogens Among Diabetic Patients Attending Padma Nursing Hospital of Western Nepal.”