Trupti Joshi's Biography

Trupti Joshi, Director- Translational Bioinformatics, University of Missouri

Dr. Trupti Joshi is the Director of Translational Bioinformatics at the School of Medicine Medical Research Office and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has appointments as Core Faculty with MU Informatics Institute (MUII), Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG) and Department of Computer Science.
Dr. Joshi has over 13+ years of experience working in academia, collaborations with multi-disciplinary researchers and several Industry partners. Her expertise is in the areas of bioinformatics and its application to plants sciences, animal sciences, biomedical sciences and health informatics fields. She has published more than 60 scientific papers, book chapters and co-developed several bioinformatics software systems and tools. She is also the co-author of first soybean reference genome sequence published in Nature in 2010. Dr. Joshi leads the development of Soybean Knowledge Base (SoyKB), a comprehensive multi-omics web resource for bridging translational genomics and molecular breeding.
Her research focuses primarily on development of computational methodologies and data analysis pipelines using HPC resources and hybrid cloud; multi-omics data integration methods; and application of translational bioinformatics techniques towards advances in precision agriculture, genotype to phenotype inferences and personalized medicine.