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Level: Beginners to Intermediate

About the instructor: Dr. Janani Ravi is currently an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, Michigan State University. She completed her PhD in Computational Biology at Virginia Tech and her postdoctoral research at the Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. Her research group at MSU works on developing computational approaches to study the molecular basis of pathogenesis and intervention of infectious diseases, using protein sequence-structure-function relationships, comparative genomics, and drug repurposing.

Janani is also actively engaged in training, education, and outreach, focusing on increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in data science and R programming. She is the founder of R-Ladies East Lansing and co-founder of Women+ Data Science, platforms that together engage more than 1,000 members.

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