Sudeshna M Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
India
Biography
Dr. Sudeshna M Chowdhury joined BITS-Pilani as a regular faculty on 25th March, 2017. Initially I was working here as an Assistant Professor (Contract) from July,2013 till April, 2017. She did her PhD from Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI, Kolkata) under Jadavpur University. Her graduate research was primarily focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms to carcinogenesis with special emphasis on cell cycle dys-regulation and chromosomal aberrations on embryonic fibroblasts. After graduation she moved on to USA where Dr. Sudeshna M Chowdhury did her post doctoral research from Dept. of Biochemistry, Tufts School of Medicine, Boston, USA. My research was on Polyoma Middle T Antigen mediated signaling in cancer.She moved from USA to India and joined BITS-Pilani on July,2107 with her DST-SERB Young Scientist Grant and is presently working here as an Assistant professor in Biological Sciences Dept.
Research Interest
Biochemistry
Publications
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Rajasekeran H, Reich HN, Hladunewich MA, Cattran D, Lovshin JA, Lytvyn Y, Bjornstad P, Lai V, Tse V, Cham L, Majumder S, Bowskill BB, Kabir MG, Advani SL, Gibson IW, Sood MW, Advani A, Cherney DZI. Dapagliflozin in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis: A Combined Human-Rodent Pilot Study. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2017.
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Rajasekeran H, Reich HN, Hladunewich MA, Cattran D, Lovshin JA, Lytvyn Y, Bjornstad P, Lai V, Tse V, Cham L, Majumder S, Bowskill BB, Kabir MG, Advani SL, Gibson IW, Sood MW, Advani A, Cherney DZI. Dapagliflozin in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis: A Combined Human-Rodent Pilot Study. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2017.
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Alghamdi TA, Majumder S, Thieme K, Batchu SN, White KE, Liu Y, Brijmohan AS, Bowskill BB, Advani SL, Woo M, Advani A. JAK2 regulates transcription factor EB expression and autophagy completion in glomerular podocytes. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Sep;28(9):2641-2653.
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Majumder S#, Thieme K#, Batchu SN, Alghamdi TA, Bowskill BB, Kabir MG, Liu Y, Advani SL, White KE, Geldenhuys L, Tennankore KK, Poyah P, Siddiqi FS, Advani A. Shifts in podocyte histone H3K27me3 regulate mouse and human glomerular disease. J Clin Invest. 2017.
