Vikas Bansal

About

Personal Website: https://vikas-bansal.com/
I am interested in producing, integrating and discovering patterns in large multi-omics datasets to extend the understanding of transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms in human disorders. Integration of different sequencing data types provides an opportunity to investigate biological pathways at multiple layers like genotype, chromatin and transcript levels. We use iPSCs, human tissues and mouse models to generate cell-type specific multi-omics data (e.g. spatial transcriptomics, scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq) to better understand diseases.

Employment

• Central Institute of Mental Health Senior Scientist
  2025 - Present
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Scientist
  2023 - Present
• German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Career Development Fellow & Group Leader
  2019 - 2024
• Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Postdoctoral researcher
  2017 - 2019
• German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Postdoctoral researcher
  2016 - 2017
• Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine Postdoctoral researcher
  2016 - 2017
• Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and the Charité Medical Faculty Marie Curie PhD fellowship - Early Stage Researcher
  2012 - 2015
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Bioinformatician
  2011 - 2012

Education

• Freie Universität Berlin Ph.D. Bioinformatics
  2012 - 2016
• Kings College London M.Sc. Bioinformatics
  2010 - 2011
• Panjab University B.Sc. Bioinformatics
  2007 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (29)

• Transcriptomic changes in oligodendrocytes and precursor cells associate with clinical outcomes of Parkinson’s disease
  Molecular Brain 2024 DOI: 10.1186/s13041-024-01128-z
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• Transcriptomic changes in oligodendrocytes and precursor cells predicts clinical outcomes of Parkinson’s disease
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.11.540329
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• SARS-CoV-2 infection activates endogenous retroviruses of the LTR69 subfamily
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.21.533610
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• The Foundational Data Initiative for Parkinson Disease: Enabling efficient translation from genetic maps to mechanism
  Cell Genomics 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100261
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• Medin co-aggregates with vascular amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease
  Nature 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05440-3
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• Transcription start site signal profiling improves transposable element RNA expression analysis at locus-level
  Frontiers in Genetics 2022 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1026847
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• A Novel Gene Controls a New Structure: PiggyBac Transposable Element-Derived 1, Unique to Mammals, Controls Mammal-Specific Neuronal Paraspeckles
  Molecular Biology and Evolution 2022 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac175
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• Distinct translatome changes in specific neural populations precede electroencephalographic changes in prion-infected mice
  PLOS Pathogens 2022 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010747
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• Mitochondrial and autophagy-lysosomal pathway polygenic risk scores predict Parkinson's disease
  Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2022.103751
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• Correction for Rando et al., “Pathogenesis, Symptomatology, and Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through Analysis of Viral Genomics and Structure”
  mSystems 2022 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01447-21
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