- Title Senior Postdoctoral Fellow – Perissi Lab
- Education Ph.D. Bose Institute, India
M.Sc. University of Calcutta, India
B.Sc. University of Calcutta, India - Office K-616/K-621
- Email mitras02@bu.edu
- Phone (617) 358-4563
- Area of Interest Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), Integrated stress signaling (ISR), Mitochondrial retrograde stress signaling, Chromatin remodeling, mito-nuclear contact sites, stress-induced PARylation and neuron development
I did my Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Bose Institute, India. During my Ph.D., I explored the role of heat shock protein 90 in regulating MAPK signaling. Subsequently, I joined as a postdoc at New York University (NYU) to pursue my research work to understand Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) in controlling the transcriptional dynamics during age-related eye disorders using genetics and molecular biology in fruit flies and human cell lines respectively.
At present, in Dr. Perissi’s lab, I am exploring the principles governing the translocation of mitochondria-based transcription factors from mitochondria to the nucleus during retrograde stress signaling. The current project also focuses on the landscape study of chromatin remodeling during mitochondrial stress signaling. In a parallel project, I am also trying to uncover the role of stress-induced PARylation activity in neurogenesis and age-related neurodegeneration using fruit flies and human iPSC cells as a model system.
Mentoring is my second favorite thing in Science, doing Science itself being the first.
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