Subramaniam K

Biography

He is currently employed at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and have good expertise in the field of Biotechnology. He is currently employed at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and have good expertise in the field of Biotechnology.

Research Interest

Most of our tissues undergo constant wear and tear.  A group of cells, known as the adult stem cells, continuously generate new cells that help our tissues regenerate and repair.  In a population of stem cells, while some undergo cell division to self-renew their population, others differentiate to produce the specialized cells that make up a particular tissue.  Maintenance of a balance between self-renewal and differentiation is crucial – bias towards self-renewal can cause cancer, and bias towards differentiation will result in the loss of stem cells.  My laboratory investigates how this balance is achieved in the case of germline stem cells.