Sherin Kannoly
Research And Development
Queens
Summary
Motivated and goal-oriented research scientist working towards understanding microbial host and pathogen interactions.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
CEO & Cofounder
SENTINEL BIOTECH
9 2022 - Current
- Developed in-situ pathogen concentration device for wastewater surveillance.
- Delivered minimum viable product for clients involved in wastewater surveillance.
- Played key roles in managing partnerships and strategic business relationships.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Queens College, CUNY
03.2018 - Current
- Initiated spin-out of scientific research into start up.
- Filed provisional patent for passive in-situ pathogen concentration device.
- Stewarded labs jump into wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 during pandemic.
- Developed protocols that were used by Dept. of Environmental Protection (NYDEP) for virus concentration from wastewater sampled at 14 treatment plants across NY city.
- Studied consequences and control of randomness in timing of intracellular events using lambda virus as a model system.
- Wrote and published peer-reviewed articles concerning findings.
- Peer reviewed manuscripts for reputed journals
- Pursued independent and complementary research interests.
- Developed unique research into wastewater surveillance.
- Leveraged interpersonal and communication skills to mentor graduate and undergraduate students.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University At Albany - Suny
01.2015 - 07.2017
- Studied role of intracellular host protein (Hfq) in virus-host interactions
- Elucidated the effects of heterologous host proteins on phage growth rate-a possible role in host range evolution
Education
Ph.D. - Biology
SUNY At Albany
Albany, NY 08.2006 - 2014.12
Master of Science - Biotechnology
University of Mumbai
Mumbai 06.2002 - 03.2004
Bachelor of Science - Microbiology
University of Mumbai
Mumbai 06.1999 - 03.2002
Skills
Research and Development Life Sciences
Project Management
Business start up
Product development
Publications
Single-cell approach reveals intercellular heterogeneity in phage-producing capacities . Sherin Kannoly ,Gabriella Oken,Jonathan Shadan,David Musheyev,Kevin Singh,Abhyudai Singh,John J Dennehy. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Dec 21;e0266321. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02663-21.
Genetic diversity and evolutionary convergence of cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected via wastewater sequencing . Devon A Gregory, Monica Trujillo, Clayton Rushford, Anna Flury, Sherin Kannoly , John J Dennehy, Marc C Johnson. PLoS Pathog. 2022 Oct 14;18(10):e1010636.
Tracking cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected in NYC wastewate r. Davida S Smyth, Monica Trujillo, Devon A Gregory, Kristen Cheung, Anna Gao, Maddie Graham, Yue Guan, Caitlyn Guldenpfennig, Irene Hoxie, Sherin Kannoly , John J Dennehy. Nat Commun. 2022 Feb 3;13(1):635.
Protocol for safe, affordable, and reproducible isolation and quantitation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from wastewater . Monica Trujillo, Kristen Cheung, Anna Gao, Irene Hoxie, Sherin Kannoly , Nanami Kubota, Kaung Myat San, Davida S Smyth, John J Dennehy. PLoS One. 2021 Sep 23;16(9):e0257454.
Notes from the Field: Early Evidence of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant in Community Wastewater . Amy E Kirby, Rory M Welsh, Zachary A Marsh, Alexander T Yu, Duc J Vugia, Alexandria B Boehm, Devon A Gregory, Marc C Johnson, Monica Trujillo, Sherin Kannoly , Davida S Smyth, John J Dennehy, Loren Hopkins. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2022 Jan 21;71(3):103-105.
An Optimal Lysis Time Maximizes Bacteriophage Fitness in Quasi-Continuous Culture . Sherin Kannoly , Abhyudai Singh, John J Dennehy. mBio. 2022 Jun 28;13(3):e0359321.
Feedforward genetic circuits regulate the precision of event timing . Supravat Dey, Sherin Kannoly , Pavol Bokes, John J Dennehy and Abhyudai Singh. 2021 European Control Conference (ECC), Delft, Netherlands, 2021, pp. 2127-2132, doi: 10.23919/ECC54610.2021.9654985.
Optimum Threshold Minimizes Noise in Timing of Intracellular Events . Sherin Kannoly , Tianhui Gao, Supravat Dey, Ing-Nang Wang, Abhyudai Singh, John J Dennehy. iScience. 2020 Jun 26;23(6):101186.
Rethinking the evolution of single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) bacteriophages based on genomic sequences and characterizations of two R-plasmid-dependent ssRNA phages, C-1 and Hgal1 . Sherin Kannoly , Yongping Shao, Ing-Nang Wang. J Bacteriol. 2012 Sep;194(18):5073-5079.
Effects of bacteriophage traits on plaque formation . Romain Gallet, Sherin Kannoly , Ing-Nang Wang. BMC Microbiol. 2011 Aug 9;11:181. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-181.
Patents & Awards
Patent: Methods for concentrating a viral genome sample
PCT Number: US2023026429
Filing Date: 06/28/2022
Award: NSF Innovation Corps Research & Development Award (2329731). Title: Passive in situ pathogen concentration device for wastewater-based epidemiology
Services and activities
Ad Hoc Manuscript Referee
iScience (1), PLoS One (3), Evolution (1), Nature Communications (3), JoVE (1), Viruses (1), Microorganisms (1)
Ad Hoc Grant Proposal Reviewer
National Science Center, Poland. Institution: Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Timeline
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Queens College, CUNY
03.2018 - Current
Postdoctoral Researcher
University At Albany - Suny
01.2015 - 07.2017
Ph.D. - Biology
SUNY At Albany
08.2006 - 2014.12
Master of Science - Biotechnology
University of Mumbai
06.2002 - 03.2004
Bachelor of Science - Microbiology
University of Mumbai
06.1999 - 03.2002
CEO & Cofounder
SENTINEL BIOTECH
9 2022 - Current
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