Veena K Parnaik
J C Bose Fellow
Molecular Biology
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
India
Biography
Veena Krishnaji Parnaik (born 1953) is an Indian cell biologist and the current Chief Scientist at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. She obtained her Masters in Science in medicinal biochemistry from the University of Mumbai and received her PhD from Ohio State University before moving back to India to work at the CCMB. Her research is focused on understanding the functional role of the nuclear lamina and how defects in it may lead to disorders such as progeria and muscular dystrophy.
Research Interest
Dr. Veena K Parnaik's research interests are directed towards understanding the functional role of the nuclear lamina, an essential component of nuclear architecture in metazoan cells. She has identified distinctive lamin domains that colocalize with RNA splicing factor compartments and are involved in the spatial organization of transcription and pre-mRNA splicing.
Publications
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I Mariappan and VK Parnaik, Sequestration of pRb by cyclin D3 causes intranuclear reorganization of lamin A/C during muscle cell differentiation Mol. Biol. Cell 16, 1948-1960 (2005).
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RI Kumaran, Bh Muralikrishna and VK Parnaik, Lamin A/C speckles mediate spatial organization of splicing factor compartments and RNA polymerase II transcription J. Cell Biol. 159, 783-793 (2002).
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G Jagatheesan, S Thanumalayan, Bh Muralikrishna, N Rangaraj, A A Karande and V K Parnaik, Colocalization of intranuclear lamin foci with RNA splicing factors J. Cell Sci. 112, 4651-4661 (1999).
