Sharmistha Majumdar
Assistant Professor
Biological Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
India
Biography
Sharmistha Majumdar, PhD (Cornell University) is Assistant Professor. Her educational qualification is-B.Sc. : Presidency College, Univ. of Calcutta, 1997, M.Sc. : Madurai Kamaraj University, 1999, Ph.D.: Cornell University, 2006
Research Interest
Evolution of mobile genetic elements/ transposons: mechanisms of transposition and control, modifications of function in transposase homologs, Biochemical/biophysical/structural characterization of nucleotide-binding & nucleic acid binding proteins, Genomic and proteomic analysis of transposases and transposase homologs.
Publications
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Majumdar S. and Rio D.C.Specificity of DNA-Protein Recognition by THAP9 Family DNA Binding Domains. Submitted.