Niti Puri
Assistant Professor
School of Life Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
Biography
May, 2008 onwards: Assistant Professor in Immunology, in the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. October, 2005 till April, 2008: Visiting Fellow (Employee) in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul A. Roche, Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. April, 2005 till September, 2005: Visiting Fellow (Contract Employee) in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul A. Roche, Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. March, 2000 till March, 2005: Post Doctoral Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul A. Roche, Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. September, 1997 till Nov 1999: Project Associate in the project titled, "Cloning, Expression and Purification of Ovine Growth Hormone" funded by Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, with Dr. Satish M. Totey, Embryo Biotechnology Lab., National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, as the Principal Investigator. December, 1995 till December, 1996: Research Associate in the Project titled, "Major Histocompatibility Complex I Antigen Expression Augmenting Factor (MEAF), A new immunomodulatory Cytokine: Purification, characterization and sequencing " funded by Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, with Prof. Rajiv K. Saxena, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, as the Principal Investigator.
Research Interest
Role and molecular mechanisms of Mast Cell effector responses in infectious and non-infectious diseases. Interaction of nanoparticles with immune effector cells
Publications
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3. Puri, N. and Roche, P. A. (2008) Mast cells possess distinct secretory granule subsets whose exocytosis is regulated by different SNARE isoforms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A. 105(7): 2580-2585.
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2. Hepp, R., Puri, N. (equal contribution with 1st author), Hohenstein, A. C., Crawford, G. L., Whiteheart, S. W. and Roche, P. A. (2005) Phosphorylation of SNAP-23 regulates exocytosis from mast cells. J. Biol. Chem. 280(8): 6610-6620.
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1. Puri, N., Kruhlak, M. J., Whiteheart, S. W. and Roche, P. A. (2003) Mast cell degranulation requires N-Ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Factor mediated SNARE disassembly. J. Immunol. 171: 5345-5352.
