Pradiptajati (Pai) Kusuma

Pradiptajati (Pai) Kusuma

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology, Indonesia

Biography

Pradiptajati Kusuma is a postdoctoral researcher at the Genome Diversity and Disease Group, Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology, Indonesia. He is a population geneticist, currently working closely with a nomadic hunter-gatherer group in Kalimantan, the Punan Batu/Cave Punan, one of a vanishingly small number of groups worldwide still occupying karstic rock shelters, living in a network of shifting camps in the forest. Together with collaborators, he conducts a multidisciplinary research to study the Cave Punan (and the neighboring indigenous group) history and the biological impact of lifestyle transition, involving linguistic, social networks, mobility patterns, diet, and genetics. His study is supported by the Wellcome International Training Fellowship program.

Interests
  • Population Genetics
  • Functional Genomics
  • Evolution
  • Biological Anthropology
  • Hunter-Gatherer
Education
  • PhD in Biological Anthropology and Population Genetics, 2017

    Universite Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France

  • Master in Biomedical Sciences, 2013

    University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

  • BSc in Biological Sciences, 2010

    Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Apr 2022 – Mar 2025 Tangerang, Indonesia

Research projects:

  • Comparative functional genomics and microbiomes in lifestyle transition of Borneo indigenous hunter-gatherer communities (PI: P Kusuma, funded by Wellcome Trust)
  • Understanding Indonesia’s genetic diversity and searching for novel, disease-associated genetic variants (Co-PI: H Sudoyo, SG Malik, and Kaja Wasik (Variant Bio), funded by Variant Bio, US)
  • Immune cell atlas of environmental and ancestral diversity in Indonesia (Co-PI: H Sudoyo, SG Malik, N Banovich (TGen), IG Romero (Uni Melbourne), MP Cox (Uni Massey), funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative)
 
 
 
 
 
Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology
Jan 2018 – Dec 2021 Jakarta Indonesia

Research project:

  • Genetic legacy, history, and adaptation of the Bornean last hunter-gatherers (Co PI: P Kusuma, H Sudoyo, funded by National Geographic Grant and Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology’s block grant)
 
 
 
 
 
Complexity Institute, Nanyang Tenchnological University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Complexity Institute, Nanyang Tenchnological University
Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 Singapore

Research project:

  • Modeling the effects of social processes on demography and lifestyle diseases (PI: LY Chew, funded by MoE Tier 1 grant)

Recent Publications

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(2022). The whole blood microbiome of Indonesians reveals that environmental differences shape immune gene expression signatures. bioRxiv.

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(2022). Deep ancestry of collapsing networks of nomadic hunter--gatherers in Borneo. Evolut. Hum. Sci..

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(2022). Genetic architecture of gene regulation in Indonesian populations identifies QTLs associated with global and local ancestries. Am. J. Hum. Genet..

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(2020). Genome-wide DNA methylation and gene expression patterns reflect genetic ancestry and environmental differences across the Indonesian archipelago. PLoS Genet..

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(2019). Multiple deeply divergent Denisovan ancestries in Papuans. Cell.

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(2019). Evidence of Austronesian genetic lineages in East Africa and south Arabia: Complex dispersal from Madagascar and southeast Asia. Genome Biol. Evol..

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(2018). The Comoros show the earliest Austronesian gene flow into the Swahili Corridor. Am. J. Hum. Genet..

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(2017). Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A..

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