Silpa is working on protein-interaction networks across all diseases and ways to integrate genetic, proteomic, protein-interaction, and clinical data.
Silpa received her Bachelor’s Degree in Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She then attended the University of California, San Diego, where she received her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. Silpa was working in the laboratory of Trey Ideker on the protein interaction networks and pathway analysis. Her work in the lab yielded one first authored publication in Nature on the Plasmodium protein network, first authored papers in Molecular Systems Biology, RECOMB Systems Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, and a co-authored paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, as well as others. She has presented at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and was featured in the Nature Podcast in November 2005.