Meet the editor

Dr. Vlasova-St. Louis earned her MD and Ph.D. from Ural State Medical Academy, Russia. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota, USA, and a fellowship sponsored by the Lymphoma Research Foundation. She served as an assistant professor at the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota. Dr. Vlasova-St. Louis has expertise in several biological disciplines including infectious diseases, immunology,

and bioinformatics. By integrating state-of-the-art techniques such as next-generation sequencing, she made numerous biomedical discoveries studying normal and pathological conditions at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. Currently, Dr. St. Louis is a COVID-19 Associate, sponsored by the Association of Public Health Laboratories and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. She leads the molecular surveillance program of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Contents

and Medicine

*by Irina Vlasova-St. Louis*

*and Priyadharini Shankaran*

A Systems Biology Approach

*and Lloyd T. Walker*

*by Sudhesh Dev Sareshma and Bhassu Subha*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 21**

**Chapter 4 39**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 97**

Insights into Oropharyngeal Microbiota, Biofilms and Associated Diseases

Assessing Host-Pathogen Interaction Networks via RNA-Seq Profiling:

Diagnostic Applications for RNA-Seq Technology and Transcriptome

*by Irina Vlasova-St. Louis, Andrew Gorzalski and Mark Pandori*

Recent Applications of RNA Sequencing in Food and Agriculture *by Venkateswara R. Sripathi, Varsha C. Anche, Zachary B. Gossett* 

Introductory Chapter: Applications of RNA-Seq Diagnostics in Biology

RNA Sequencing in Potentially Malignant Disorders *by Ramya Ramadoss, Rajkumar Krishnan, Lekshmy Jayan* 

from Metagenomics and Transcriptomic Approaches

Analyses in Human Diseases Caused by RNA Viruses

*by Richa Priyadarshini, Karthik Krishnan and Rashmi Niranjan*
