
Narayanan Perumal
Assistant Professor
- Phone
- 317-278-4147
- Office
- 719 Indiana Ave.
WK 311
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Web
http://darwin.nmsu.edu/molb_resources/tutorials/comp-bio/test.htm
Education
Post-Doctoral training at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research in Denver, Colorado and the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute in projects involving molecular immunology, cancer drug development and molecular biology of human chromosomes (Down syndrome) (1985-1988)
PhD, Biological Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon University at Pittsburgh (1985)
MS, Information Systems, Florida State University at Tallahassee (2001)
MS, Chemistry, University of Madras, India (1977)
BS, Chemistry, University of Madras, India (1975)
Biography
Before joining the School of Informatics, Dr. Perumal had teaching assignments at Florida State University and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University at Tallahassee, Florida. He has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in Biology, Information Systems, Informatics and Bioinformatics. In collaboration with the Southwest Biotechnology and Informatics Center at Las Cruces, New Mexico, he has designed and developed a module-based Bioinformatics course made available in the public domain . This course can help a beginner level student to learn at her/his own pace the fundamentals of Bioinformatics with hands-on training exercises.
Dr. Perumal serves as a thesis advisor to the MS students in Bioinformatics
and addresses inquiries from potential students interested in the MS program
in Bioinformatics regarding the requirements for admission. He is the recipient
of a NIH-BRSG Award and a NIH-RCMI Junior Faculty Development Award.
Research Interests
Dr. Perumal's current research interests are focused on computational solutions to gene regulation problems in higher organisms, particularly in the area of transcriptional control mechanisms. His expertise is in studying immune systems during fetal and embryonic development. In this research, he employs computational tools such as pattern search algorithms, data mining techniques and supervised and unsupervised learning modalities.
Publications
- Perumal, N. B., and Appasamy, P. M. (1996) A Transfection System to Study the Regulation of TCR Gamma Genes. FASEB J. 10, 248.
- Appasamy, P. M., Dhawan, M., Kenniston, T. W., and Perumal, N. (1996) Interleukin 7 Responsive Genes in Pre-B Cells Identified By Differential Display PCR. FASEB J. 10, 926.
- Perumal, N. B., Kenniston, T. W., Tweardy, D. J., Dyer, K. F., Hoffman, R., Peschon, J., and Appasamy, P. M. (1997) TCR Gamma Genes Are Rearranged but Not Transcribed in IL-7R(alpha) Deficient Mice. J. Immunol. 158, 5744-5750
- Sankula, R., Perumal, N., and Li, L. (2003) Evolution of Toll Genes from
the Perspective of Transcriptional Regulatory Regions. Poster presented at
the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology,
Brisbane, Australia. Publication in preparation.