
Sharvari Narendra, M.S.
University of Virginia
Sharvari Narendra, M.S., is a bioinformatics analyst in the lab of Amy Mathers, M.D., at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Narendra has a master's degree in bioinformatics from Northeastern University, Boston, as well as a master's degree in microbiology from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. She is particularly interested in optimizing and improving bioinformatics tools and pipelines utilized in the analysis of microbial genomics, particularly in the public health domain. She is currently working on bacterial long and short read data analysis and wastewater metagenomics analysis, as well as understanding the movement of mobile genetic elements in bacteria.
Narendra belongs to professional organizations, including the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) and the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), where she is currently a mentor for the ASM Future Leaders Mentoring Fellowship (FLMF) and a member of the Subcommittee on the Status of Women in Microbiology (SSWiM). In her spare time, Narendra likes to write stories, poems, blogs and read books and articles.