Kalia Jeet
Assistant Professor
Biology, Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
India
Biography
Jeet grew up in the idyllic town of Bhilai (CG) where he spent most of his childhood playing tennis and cricket, and learning mathematics and science from his engineer father and doctor mother which triggered his interest in chemistry and biology. He received his bachelors (B.Sc., Hons.) and masters (M.Sc.) from IIT Kharagpur in Industrial Chemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, U.S.A. where he worked in the laboratory of Prof. Ronald Raines. There, he performed chemical biology research, focused primarily on bioconjugation. He then moved to the laboratory of Dr. Kenton Swartz as a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) competitive postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S.A., where his research focused on ion channel biology. In addition to science, Jeet is passionate about literature and sports and he captained his institute's tennis team when at IIT and has played in several state-level tennis tournaments. He joined IISER Pune as an assistant professor in June 2013.
Research Interest
Chemical Biology: Ion channels, lipids, and bioconjugation
Publications
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Gilchrist, J., Dutton, S., Diaz-Bustamante, M., McPherson, A., Olivares, N., Kalia J., Escayg, A., and Bosmans, F. (2014) Nav1.1 modulation by a novel triazole compound attenuates epileptic seizures in rodents. ACS Chem. Biol. 9: 1204–1212.
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Kalia, J., Milescu, M., Salvatierra, J., Wagner, J., Klint, J. K., King, G. F., Olivera, B. M., and Bosmans, F. (2015) From foe to friend: Using animal toxins to investigate ion channel function. J. Mol. Biol. 427: 158–175.
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Bae, C., Anselmi, C., Kalia, J., Jara-Oseguera, A., Schwieters, C. D., Krepkiy, D., Lee, C. W., Kim, E-H., Kim, J. I., Faraldo-Gómez, J. D. and Swartz, K. J. (2016) Structural insights into the mechanism of activation of the TRPV1 channel by a membrane-bound tarantula toxin. eLife. 5. pii: e11273. doi: 10.7554/eLife.11273
