Faculty Profile

 
Name : Sudha  Bhattacharya
Designation : Professor
Centre :
School : Environmental Sciences
Room No : 110
Off. Phone : 26704308
Residence :
Email : sb@mail.jnu.ac.in   sudhabh@hotmail.com
Web Address : http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sbhattacharya

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Biochemistry)  
                                    

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Molecular Biology, Molecular Parasitology, Genomics  
                                    

Experience

 
                                    

Awards & Honours

National Science Talent Search Scholarship (1968)
Merit position in Central Board of Secondary Education (1968)
Robert Mc Namara Fellow of World Bank (1985)
Rockefeller Biotechnology Career Development Award (1987)
Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (1996 & 2001)
Member of Guha Research Conference (1993)
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2001)
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (2008)  
                                    

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Collaborated with Dr. William A. Petri, University of Virginia, USA through the FIRCA award from NIH, USA.  
                                    

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5)
Somlata, Bhattacharya, S., & Bhattacharya, A. (2011) A C2 domain protein kinase initiates phagocytosis in the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Nature Commun. In press.

S. K. Panigrahi, G. D. Jhingan, I. Som, A. Bhattacharya, W. A.. Petri Jr. and S. Bhattacharya (2009) Promoter analysis of palindromic transcription units in the ribosomal DNA circle of Entamoeba histolytica. Euk. Cell. 8, 69-76.

P. K. Mandal, K. Rawal, R. Ramaswamy, A. Bhattacharya, and S. Bhattacharya (2006) Identification of insertion hot spots for non-LTR retrotransposons: computational and biochemical application to Entamoeba histolytica. Nucl. Acids Res. 34, 5752-5763.

S. Ghosh, S. Satish, S. Tyagi, A. Bhattacharya and S. Bhattacharya (2003) Differential use of multiple replication origins in the ribosomal DNA episome of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Nucleic Acids Res. 31, 2035-2044.

S. K. Dhar, N. Roy Choudhary, V. Mittal, A. Bhattacharya and S. Bhattacharya (1996) Replication initiates at multiple random sites in the ribosomal DNA plasmid of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Mol. Cell Biol. 16, 2314-2324. 
                                  

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3)

Shiteshu Shrimal, Sudha Bhattacharya, and Alok Bhattacharya (2010) Serum-Dependent Selective Expression of EhTMKB1-95, a Member of Entamoeba histolytica B1 Family of Transmembrane Kinases. PLoS Pathogens, Jun 3;6(6):e1000929.

V. P. Yadav , P. K. Mandal , D. N. Rao , and S. Bhattacharya (2009) Characterization of the restriction enzyme-like endonuclease encoded by the Entamoeba histolytica non-long terminal repeat retrotransposon EhLINE1. FEBS J. 276, 7070-7082.

G. D. Jhingan, S. K. Panigrahi, A. Bhattacharya and S. Bhattacharya (2009) The nucleolus in Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba invadens is located at the nuclear periphery. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 167, 72-80.  
                                    

Patents (if any)