Umashankar Singh
Assistant Professor
Biological Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
India
Biography
Umashankar Singh, PhD (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany + Uppsala University, Sweden) is Assistant Professor. His educational qualification is B.E.: Acharya Narendra Dev College, Delhi University, 1997, M.S.: Hamdard University, New Delhi, 1999, Ph.D.: Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 2006 (continued from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany).
Research Interest
Cytoprotection, Cellular stress response and gene expression vis-à-vis retrotransposon evolution, Co-ordination between different cellular processes by multifunctional proteins
Publications
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Agarwal P, Collier P, Fritz H-YM, Benes V, Wiklund HJ, Westermark B, Singh U*: CGGBP1 mitigates cytosine methylation at repetitive DNA srquences. BMC Genomics In press.
