(Contractor)
Education:
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, 2010, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
B.A., Applied Mathematics in Economics, 2002, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Biography
Poorani collaborates with NIAID investigators on analysis of microbiome data and integrating it with other multi-omics data to explore research questions. She is also the lead for the Nephele project, which is a NIAID web application for microbial genomics and metagenomics analysis.