Sohita Ojha
PhD candidate
Hello. Thanks for visiting my web site. I'm currently a graduate student in CEMB(Cell and Molecular Biology) program in the department of Biological Sciences at University of Arkansas. I work with Dr. Douglas D. Rhoads on sperm mobility project, in which we are using multi-pronged approach to detect genetic basis of differential sperm mobility trait that directly influences male fertility in chicken.
Besides being part of largest and fastest growing program at UofA, our lab boast of diversity in terms of research projects as well as graduate students. For more information on interesting projects we work on, click below.
International Plant and Animal Genome conference 2017
January 14-17 , San Diego
Agilent Molecular Spectroscopy seminar
10.16.2016, Fayetteville
UPCOMING EVENTS
Molecular Med TRI-CON 2017
February 19-27, San Fransisco
MY LATEST RESEARCH
GWAS(Genome Wide Association Study): SNPs detection using R
GWAS also known as Genome Wide Association Study or Whole Genome Association study is a tool widely used in genetics to detect statistically significant genomic loci associated with a respective trait under investigation. Genome wide variants between individuals are analyzed for identifying genomic regions containing associated SNPs that might explain the observable trait.
Culture of chicken Primordial germ cells (PGCs) in feeder-less condition
Manipulation of germ cells has been a hot topic for decades due to its innumerable applications in research and in industry. There is lot of research pertaining to culture and characterization of cPGCs in feeder layers, yet little has been discussed about growing potential of cPGCs in feeder-less conditions. How do they behave? Do they deviate from the well documented growth pattern? If so how much?
Part of my research is devoted to unravel the aforementioned myriad of questions.
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