Narottam Acharya
Scientist - E
Department of Biotechnology
Institute of Life Sciences, Nalco Square
India
Biography
Scientist-E: (Since Jan. 2016) Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.  Scientist-D: (June 2011- Dec. 2015) Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.  Research Scientist: (2009-2011) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.  Post-Doctoral Fellow: (2003-2009) Sealy center for Molecular Sciences, UTMB, Galveston, Texas.  Ph. D. (1997-2003) Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Fellowships and Awards  Stood first class first in B.Sc.  Stood first class first in M. Sc.  Awarded the fellowship of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.  Senior research fellowship from CSIR (Council of scientific and Industrial Research), Govt. of India.  Attended “Young Investigator Meeting-2010, Kolkata”.
Research Interest
Genomic Instability and Diseases
Publications
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Acharya N, Klassen R, Johnson RE, Prakash L, Prakash S. PCNA binding domains in all three subunits of yeast DNA polymerase δ modulate its function in DNA replication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2011 Nov 1;108(44):17927-32.
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Manohar K, Acharya N. Characterization of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) from pathogenic yeast Candida albicans and its functional analyses in S. Cerevisiae. BMC microbiology. 2015 Nov 4;15(1):257.
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Satpati S, Manohar K, Acharya N, Dixit A. Comparative molecular dynamics studies of heterozygous open reading frames of DNA polymerase eta (η) in pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. Scientific reports. 2017;7.
