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Investigator Chetana Sachidanandan Senior Scientist,
CSIR-IGIB and Assistant Professor, AcSIR Chetana earned her PhD from CSIR-CCMB (Centre for
Cellular and Molecular Biology) studying satellite cells, the skeletal muscle
stem cells. During her post-doc at the Cancer Research UK, London she studied
the Notch segmentation clock in mouse embryos. Her next stop was the
Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School) in Boston where she
trained in chemical genetics and fell in love with zebrafish. At IGIB, she is also the coordinator of the PhD
coursework for the first year students. She also occasionally writes on science
in public forums and her blog, Savouring Science. Reasearch
Associates Nitisha Shrivastava Nitisha is using a computational biology approach to
build the molecular network in the liver that regulates systemic iron
homeostasis. Graduate
Students Zainab Asad Zainab is the first
PhD student of the ZCG lab. She holds an MSc in Biotechnology from Guru
Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar. Her focus in the
lab is in exploring pathophysiology of CHARGE syndrome, a congenital disorder
caused by mutations in CHD7, an ATP dependent chromatin remodeler. She has
discovered molecular effectors of the CHD7 that are responsible for the
disease. She uses chemical and genetic approaches to dissect and modulate the
Chd7-regulated events in the zebrafish embryos. Shruti Kapoor Shruti joined the
lab after completing a masters in Molecular and Human Genetics from the
Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Once in the ZCG lab, she took a plunge
into the world of computational biology. She now works on a joint project
with Vinod Scaria and Chetana Sachidanandan. She is
interested in epigenetic regulation of development and looks at epigenetic
marks, histone modifiers and long noncoding RNAs in the zebrafish genome. Sandeep Basu Sandeep joined the lab after an MSc in Biomedical
Genetics from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). In the ZCG lab he
focuses on developing zebrafish models of human iron regulatory diseases for
chemical genetic studies. His focus is on exploring the molecular mechanisms of
Hereditary Hemochromatosis, a disease resulting in excessive iron accumulation,
using both genetic and chemical genetic approaches. He is also interested in
identifying novel chemical modulators of iron regulation in vertebrates. Aswini B Aswini did her
masters in Microbial Gene Technology from Madurai Kamaraj University. Her
research interests now involve understanding the role of epigenetic modulator
enzymes, such as histone acetyl transferases, in zebrafish embryonic
development. She is currently focusing on a congenital disorder known as
Rubinstein Taybi Syndrome, caused by mutations in histone acetyl transferase
genes. Urmila P Jagtap Urmila is interested in dissecting the process of
liver regeneration using genomics and chemical genetics in a zebrafish model
for liver injury. Manoj K Singh Manoj has created a model for chronic inflammation in
zebrafish. He is interested in understanding the long-term effects of inflammation
on the metabolic rewiring of the liver. Rohit Yadav Rohit is following up the leads obtained from Zainab’s
studies in CHARGE syndrome model in zebrafish. He will use small molecules to probe
and reverse the CHARGE-like phenotypes in the zebrafish model. Project
Assistants Shashi Ranjan Mageshi Kamaraj Alumni-Project
Assistant Nikhil Bharti Aditi Pandey Kalai Mangai Muthukumarasamy (Graduate Student at Københavns
Universitet) Ikram Ullah (Graduate Student at Philipps
University of Marburg) Snigdha Sehgal (Teacher at Paradise School Goa) Chitra Mohan (Graduate Student at SUNY Stony Brook,
New York) Kriti Verma (Graduate Student at Hannover Medical School, Germany) Bibhuti Ballav
Saikia (Graduate Student at Aravind Medical Research
Foundation, Madurai) Dharamdeep (Regulatory Affairs at Hospira, a
pfizer company) Seshaphani Jonnalagadda (Analyst at Goldman Sachs) Prateek Singh (Graduate Student at University of Oulu,
Finland) Benan John Mathai (Graduate Student at University of
Oslo) Anita Goyala (Graduate Student at National Institute of Immunology, New
Delhi) |
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