Vedbar Khadka, PhD
Assistant Professor and Bioinformatician
Office: BSB 325 B
vedbar@hawaii.edu
(808) 692-1462
Degrees
PhD in Computational Science and Statistics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
MS in Electrical Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
Research Focus
Bioinformatics, systems biology, cancer, biostatistics, data mining.
Selected Publications
- Rodriguez RM, Menor M, Hernandez BY, Deng Y, Khadka VS. Bacterial Diversity Correlates with Overall Survival in Cancers of the Head and Neck, Liver, and Stomach. Molecules. 2021 Sep 17;26(18). DOI: 10.3390/molecules26185659. PubMed PMID: 34577130; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8468759.
- Rodriguez RM, Khadka VS, Menor M, Hernandez BY, Deng Y. Tissue-associated microbial detection in cancer using human sequencing data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2020 Dec 3;21(Suppl 9):523. DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03831-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 33272199; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7713026.
- Rodriguez RM, Hernandez BY, Menor M, Deng Y, Khadka VS. The landscape of bacterial presence in tumor and adjacent normal tissue across 9 major cancer types using TCGA exome sequencing. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2020;18:631-641. DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.03.003. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32257046; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7109368.
- Sasuclark AR, Khadka VS, Pitts MW. Cell-Type Specific Analysis of Selenium-Related Genes in Brain. Antioxidants (Basel). 2019 May 5;8(5). DOI: 10.3390/antiox8050120. PubMed PMID: 31060314; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6562762.
- Khadka VS, Vaughn K, Xie J, Swaminathan P, Ma Q, Cramer GR, Fennell AY. Transcriptomic response is more sensitive to water deficit in shoots than roots of Vitis riparia (Michx.). BMC Plant Biol. 2019 Feb 13;19(1):72. DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1664-7. PubMed PMID: 30760212; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6375209.
