Malali Gowda's Biography

Malali Gowda, Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms

Dr. Malali Gowda, Director of Next-Generation Genomic Facility at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), NCBS-GKVK Campus, Bangalore. Dr. Malali Gowda had returned to India in September 2010 through the Ramalingaswamy program (Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India). Dr. Gowda has a substantial experience in plant sciences, genetics, genomics and functional genomics from Michigan State University, North Carolina State University and Ohio State University. With his prior experience in genomics and functional genomics, Dr. Gowda has successfully established the state-of-the-art Next-Generation Genomic Facility (NGGF) at C-CAMP. In the last year, more than 150 institutes and industries across India have accessed NGGF facility services (NGS and bioinformatics). Scientists have sequenced >500 genomes (prokaryotes and higher eukaryotes) using NGGF services. Users have published several peer-reviewed journals (http://ccamp.res.in/NGG%20papers) using NGGF and many of the genomes/transcriptomes have been deposited in NCBI.