Meeta Mistry, is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch at the NIMH in Bethesda, MD. She earned her doctorate in Bioinformatics as a trainee in the CIHR Bioinformatics Training Program at the University of British Columbia. Through the Bioinformatics Training Program, Meeta completed three research rotations under the supervision of different Bioinformatics faculty members, covering various areas of research including the identification of bacterial drug targets, implementing metrics for functional similarity, and cancer proteomics. Her thesis work was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Paul Pavlidis which involved evaluating gene expression patterns in the post-mortem human brain of healthy controls and individuals with schizophrenia. During her graduate career she has obtained teaching experience at the highschool, graduate and postgraduate level . Other contributions include serving as student caucus chair for the Bioinformatics Training Program and membership on the organizing committees of various conferences/meetings, such as the 2008 Brain Development and Learning Conference and the Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC) 2009.

Research Interests:

Current research focus is on the analysis of large-scale genomic and genetic datasets pertaining to the post-mortem human brain and neuropsychiatric illness.

Specialties:bioinformatics, statistical analyses, computational algorithms, genomics, genetics, neuropsychiatry

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