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Cell Science, Stem Cell Research &
Pharmacological Regenerative Medicine
November 29-30, 2017 | Atlanta, USA
Annual Congress on
Adv cel sci tissue cul 2017 | Volume 1 Issue 2
Science of omics and its role in human health care
Nawin Mishra
University of South Carolina, USA
O
mics is derived from term Ome which means to include
a complete description of a system. Thus, genome is
derived from gene to become genome and genomics means
the complete description of all genes or DNA sequences
in a cell or in an organism. Likewise, proteome is derived
protein and proteomics included the description of entire
proteins of a cell or an organism. Advances in Genetics led
to the development of the Sciences of omics and system
Biology. They provide the tools for a better understanding of
human diseases and for the development of new drugs and
ultimately the possibility of personalized medicine. It is now
possible to determine the entire DNA sequence of a genome
as well as the entire protein sequence of a proteome in any
organism because of the coming of throughput technologies
and Bioinformatics. Thus omics includes genomics, epi-
genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and similar branches
of science which describe the characteristics of a cell and
its components. Several conceptual and technological
advances in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology
made possible the emergence of the science of omics. My
presentation will discuss some of these advances and the
role of the science of omics in human health care including
precision medicine.
Speaker Biography
Nawin Mishra received his B. S (Honors) and M.S degrees from Patna University (then
nicknamed as Oxford of the East) in India and Ph. D Degree from McMaster University.
He received his post –doctoral training with the late Nobel Laureate Professor E. L.
Tatum at the Rockefeller University. He was a Fellow for Medical Research of the Jane
Coffin Child Fund of the Yale University at the Rockefeller University for two years
and then Research Associate with Professor Tatum where he initiated his work in
what is now called as Proteomics and Metabolomics. There he also devised the first
gene transfer in a eukaryote, Neurospora crassa. Later he joined the University of
South Carolina Molecular Biology Group and Chairman of the Microbiology dept in
the Medical School and remained as Professor of Genetics in the Dept. of Biological
Sciences. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular
Biology in Heidelberg, Germany and in Genetic Institute of Greenwood, SC. In addition
to a large number of articles published in leading journals, he has published two books
by John Wiley & Sons of New York, one on Proteomics in 2010, this book has been
endorsed by Nobel Laureate Professor Gunter Blobel.
e:
ncmishra@mailbox.sc.edu