Tushar Vaidya
Sr. Principal Scientist
Molecular Biology
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
India
Biography
Tushar Vaidya is the Senior Principal Scientist in Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Research Interest
Mechanisms of Virulence and Cell survival in Leishmania: identification and analysis of molecules and mechanisms that confer an advantage to the parasite during infection in mammals.Mechanisms of Host Susceptibility/Resistance: We are studying the cellular immune responses in mice of distinct genetic background, to Leishmania infection, over time and in different tissues.Analysis of immunological memory in B-lymphocytes: B-lymphocytes provide immune protection by producing highly specific antibodies in response to foreign antigens and pathogens.
Publications
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Shuchismita Satpathy, Gautam Shenoy, Sheetal Kaw, Tushar Vaidya, Vineeta Bal, Satayjit Rath and Anna George(2010): Inhibition of Terminal Differentiation of B cells mediated by CD27 and CD40 involves signaling through JNK. J.Immunology 185;6499-6507
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Vidhi Puri, Aneesh Goyal, Rajan Sankaranarayanan, Anton J Enright and Tushar Vaidya(2011): Evolutionary and functional insights into Leishmania META1: evidence for lateral gene transfer and a role for META1 in secretion. BMC Evol Biol , 11: 334
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Santosh K Panda, Sunil Kumar, Nitin C Tupperwar, Tushar Vaidya, Anna George, Satyajit Rath, Vineeta Bal and Balachandran Ravindran(2012): Chitohexaose activates macrophages by alternate pathway through TLR4 and blocks Endotoxemia. PLOS Pathogens 8 (5) : e1002717
