Soumyaroop Bhattacharya, M.Ed., M.S.

Contact Information

Phone Numbers

Office: (585) 276-4683

Fax: (585) 276-2642

Research Labs

Soumyaroop Bhattacharya's research interests include gene expression analysis of lung development and diseases, involving biomarker discovery and algorithm development for data analysis.

Lab: (585) 276-4617

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Locations

University of Rochester Medical Center
School of Medicine and Dentistry
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 651
Rochester, NY

Biography

Professional Background

Soumyaroop Bhattacharya is currently working as a Senior Associate in Pediatrics, in School of Medicine and Dentistry. He has previously served as a Bioinformatician in the Lung Biology Center at the Harvard Medical School. Mr. Bhattacharya has obtained B.S in Agriculture from Banaras Hindu University in India. He followed it with M.S in Biotechnology, Medical Informatics and M.Ed. in Science Education in the United States.

Research

Soumyaroop Bhattacharya is a Senior Associate in Neonatology Division of Pediatrics Department. His research interests include gene expression analysis of lung development and diseases, involving biomarker discovery and algorithm development for data analysis, and he is currently leading multiple projects on Genom-wide expression profiling studies on lung diseases and development. He is also collaborating with investigators in numerous other bioinformatics studies.
Mr. Bhattacharya has also been involved in development and maintainence 'The Lung Transcriptome' (http://lungtranscriptome.bwh.harvard.edu), a web resource for pulmonary genomics, which provides expression microarray databases and analytical tools to the lung research community.

Credentials

Faculty Appointments

Senior Associate - Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology (SMD) - Primary

Education

1999
Diploma in Software Engineering | APTECH Computer Education

2000
BS | India-Banaras Hindu U, Varanasi
Agriculture

2004
MS | Univ of Pittsburgh
Biomedical Informatics

2002
MS | U of Massachusetts-Lowell
Biological Science

2006
MEd | Fitchburg State University
Science Education

Awards

2015 - 2015
Associate Chair
Sponsor: Gordon Research Seminar on Lung Development, Injury & Repair
Location: Andover, NH

2015
American Thoracic Society Abstract Scholarship Award
Sponsor: American Thoracic Society
Location: New York, NY

2005
Travel Fellowship
Sponsor: International Society of Computational Biology
Location: La Jolla, CA, USA

2003
Best E-Poster
Sponsor: Association of Pathology Informatics
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2001 - 2002
Graduate Research Grant Award
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts
Location: Lowell, MA, USA

1993
National Talent Search Scholarship
Sponsor: NCERT
Location: New Delhi, India

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Publications

Journal Articles

7/26/2017
Bhattacharya S, Rosenberg AF, Peterson DR, Grzesik K, Baran AM, Ashton JM, Gill SR, Corbett AM, Holden-Wiltse J, Topham DJ, Walsh EE, Mariani TJ, Falsey AR. "Transcriptomic Biomarkers to Discriminate Bacterial from Nonbacterial Infection in Adults Hospitalized with Respiratory Illness." Scientific reports.. 2017 Jul 26; 7(1):6548. Epub 2017 Jul 26.

5/2017
Du Y, Kitzmiller JA, Sridharan A, Perl AK, Bridges JP, Misra RS, Pryhuber GS, Mariani TJ, Bhattacharya S, Guo M, Potter SS, Dexheimer P, Aronow B, Jobe AH, Whitsett JA, Xu Y. "Lung Gene Expression Analysis (LGEA): an integrative web portal for comprehensive gene expression data analysis in lung development." Thorax.. 2017 May 0; 72(5):481-484. Epub 2017 Jan 09.

4/24/2017
Solleti SK, Bhattacharya S, Ahmad A, Wang Q, Mereness J, Rangasamy T, Mariani TJ. "MicroRNA expression profiling defines the impact of electronic cigarettes on human airway epithelial cells." Scientific reports.. 2017 Apr 24; 7(1):1081. Epub 2017 Apr 24.

Books & Chapters

2007
Chapter Title: Progression-associated genes in astrocytoma identified by microarray gene expression data re-analysis: Microarray Data Analysis: Methods and Applications
Book Title: Methods in Molecular Biology
Author List: MacDonald TJ, Pollack IF, Okada H, Bhattacharya S, Lyons-Weiler J.
Published By: Humana Press Inc.2007

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