Julia Krushkal Adkins, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Julia Krushkal Adkins is a computational biologist at DCTD. She has expertise in molecular genetics, bioinformatics, statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology. As a bioinformatician, she is involved in a variety of DCTD projects, providing computational analyses of gene expression and epigenetic data, and DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analyses of cancer drug resistance, molecular genetic and epigenetic features of patient cancer samples and cancer cell lines, and tumor evolution.

Prior to joining DCTD in 2014, she was a scientific review officer at the NIH Center for Scientific Review (2012-2014), where she participated in review of cardiovascular, sleep, and cancer epidemiology grant applications.

After completing postdoctoral training at the Human Genetics Center at the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center (1996-1997), Dr. Krushkal Adkins had faculty level appointments at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining NIH in 2012, she was an associate professor of preventive medicine with tenure at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where she was a faculty member since 2002.

Education

• Ph.D. Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (joint graduate program with MD Anderson Cancer Center)
• Honors Diploma (equivalent to B.S./M.S with distinction) Cytology and genetics with concentration in mathematical biology, Novosibirsk State University (Russia)