Saowalak Kalapanulak

Academic Position : Assistant Professor

Administrative Position  : Chair of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology program

Tel. : 02-470-7713

Email : saowalak.kal@kmutt.ac.th 

Lab Website : Biological Modeling Laboratory

Research Interests

  • Systems biology and bioinformatics in plant metabolism
  • Systems biology and bioinformatics in metabolism of pathogen
  • Genome-scale metabolic network reconstruction
  • Transcriptional regulatory network reconstruction
  • Structural analysis of biochemical networks

Education

Ph.D. (Systems Biology), University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Recent Publications

  1. Kalapanulak, S. ; Saithong, T. ; Chiewchankaset, P., A 2019 “Extended Utilization of Constraint-Based Metabolic Model in a Long-Growing Crop” PROCESSES Volume: 7 , Issue: 5
  2. Kalapanulak, S. ; Saithong, T. ; Chiewchankaset, P. ; Siriwat, W. ; Suksangpanomrung, M. ; Boonseng, O. ; Meechai, A. ; Tanticharoen, M., A 2019 “Understanding carbon utilization routes between high and low starch-producing cultivars of cassava through Flux Balance Analysis” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Volume: 9
  3. Kalapanulak, S. ; Saithong, T. ; Wirojsirasak, W., A 2019 “Pan- and core- gene association networks: Integrative approaches to understanding biological regulation” PLOS ONE  Volume: 14 , Issue: 1
  4. Siriwat, W., Kalapanulak, S., Suksangpanomrung, M., Saithong, T. 2018 “Unlocking conserved and diverged metabolic characteristics in cassava carbon assimilation via comparative genomics approach” Scientific Reports 8(1),16593
  5. Kalapanulak, S; Saithong, T; Thammarongtham, C. 2017 “Networking Omic Data to Envisage Systems Biological Regulation” NETWORK BIOLOGY Book Series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering-Biotechnology   Volume: 160   Pages: 121-141
  6. Vongthaiwan, W. Siriwat, S. Kalapanulak, and T. Saithong*, “Shape the reconstructed metabolic pathway of cassava carbon assimilation into a cell”, First Prize of Outstanding Proceedings Award in the 27th Annual Meeting of the Thai Society for Biotechnology and International Conference (TSB2015), 17-22 November 2015, Thailand.
  7. Sriwichai, T. Saithong, C. Thammarongtham, A. Meechai, and S. Kalapanulak*, (2015) “A hybrid computational approach for predicting the intergenic microRNA promoters in plants: A case study in cassava”, Proceeding of The 27th Annual Meeting of the Thai Society for Biotechnology and International Conference (TSB2015), 17-22 November 2015, Thailand.
  8. Bumee, S. Kalapanulak, A. Meechai, T. Saithong* “Analysis of reporter metabolites for the compartmentalized genome-scale metabolic model of Arabidopsis leaves”, Proceeding of the 6th international conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics 2015 (CSBio2015), Bangkok, Thailand
  9. Chiewchankaset, O. Boonseng, M. Suksangpanomrung, S. Kalapanulak* and T. Saithong*, “Investigation of growth behavior inferring the distinct carbon allocation between high and low starch-content traits of cassava”, Poster for The Phenodays 2015 conference, Freising, Germany, October 28-30, 2015
  10. Saithong, S. Saerue, S. Kalapanulak, P. Sojikul, J. Narangajavana, S. Bhumiratana. (2015) Gene Co-Expression Analysis Inferring the Crosstalk of Ethylene and Gibberellin in Modulating the Transcriptional Acclimation of Cassava Root Growth in Different Seasons, PLoS ONE 10(9): e0137602. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137602
  11. Sojikul, T. Saithong, S. Kalapanulak, N. Pisuttinusart, S. Limsirichaikul, M. Tanaka, Y. Utsumi, T. Sakurai, M. Seki, J. Narangajavana. (2015) Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals Phytohormone Action During Cassava Storage Root Initiation, Plant Molecular Biology, pp. 1-13.