Rishi Das Roy

Bio

Staff scientist at Biodata Analytics Unit in the University of Helsinki. When not exploring data and communicating information, I spend time cycling in summer and playing badminton in winter.

Key research interests

  • Computational Biology
    • Transcriptomics at the level of bulk and single cell
    • Multiomics
  • Bioconductor package development
  • Implementation of FAIR data information
  • Application of machine learning

Teaching

At the University of Helsinki

  • Bulk RNAseq

  • Single cell data analysis

Experience

University Researcher | University of Helsinki | 2023 – present

Postdoc | University of Helsinki | 2014 – 23

PhD | CSIR-IGIB, Delhi | 2008 – 13

Lead Engineer | HCLTech | 2006 – 08

Selected papers

Calamari, Z. T., A. Song, E. Cohen, M. Akter, R. Das Roy, O. Hallikas, M. M. Christensen, P. Li, P. Marangoni, J. Jernvall and O. D. Klein (2024). Bank vole genomics links determinate and indeterminate growth of teeth. BMC Genomics 25(1): 1000.

Christensen, M. M., Hallikas, O., R. Das Roy., Väänänen, V., Stenberg, O. E., Häkkinen, T. J., … & Jernvall, J. (2023). The developmental basis for scaling of mammalian tooth size. PNAS, 120(25), e2300374120

Sulic, Ana-Marija, R. Das Roy, Verdiana Papagno, Qiang Lan, Riikka Saikkonen, Jukka Jernvall, Irma Thesleff, and Marja L. Mikkola. Transcriptomic landscape of early hair follicle and epidermal development. Cell Reports 42, no. 6 (2023).

R. Das Roy, Outi Hallikas, Mona M Christensen, Elodie Renvoisé, and Jukka Jernvall. 2021. Chromosomal neighbourhoods allow identification of organ specific changes in gene expression, PLoS computational biology, 17: e1008947.

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Education

PhD: Biotechnology | Pune University, India | 2008 - 15

Master of Computer Application | Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur | 2003 - 06.

B.Sc. Physics Honors | University of Calcutta | 1999 - 02.

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