Satyajit Mayor
Biological Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Satyajit Mayor received his MSc in Chemistry from IIT, Mumbai. He obtained his PhD in Life Sciences from the Rockefeller University, New York, working on the biosynthesis of GPI-anchors in the African sleeping sickness parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, in the Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, with Professor George Cross. He then moved to the Department of Pathology at Columbia University, New York, to study endocytic trafficking of lipids and proteins in Professor Frederick R Maxfield's laboratory. Mayor worked as a Lecturer at Woodshole Microscopy Course, Woodshole, Massachusetts, USA. Later he joined as a post-doctoral Fellow at the Columbia University (1991-95). In 1996, Satyajit Mayor moved to the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore. Presently he is the Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and The Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), and Senior Professor in the area of cellular organization and signalling.
Research Interest
Cell Biology
