Prashant Kumar Kuntala

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Ting Wang, PhD

Undergraduate university: Jawaharlal Nehru Techological. University, 2015

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Studying epigenetic determinants of exceptional longevity in humans. Primarily focused on characterizing DNA methylation changes with age in “healthy” families using statistical techniques designed for family-based population studies.

Graduate publications
Zhuo X, Hsu S, Purushotham D, Kuntala PK, Harrison JK, Du AY, Chen S, Li D, Wang T. 2023 Comparing genomic and epigenomic features across species using the WashU Comparative Epigenome Browser. Genome Res, 33(5):824-35. PMCID: