Scientist C & DBT-Ramalingaswami Faculty Fellow
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
Profile
Our current focus is to understand how the epigenetic repression of retrotransposons is lost in human cancers and how that contributes to tumorigenesis. We are currently studying this in breast cancer and pancreatic neuroendocrine cancers. We use integrative wet-lab and computational approaches to identify aberrant retrotransposon expression and epigenetic silencing mechanisms controlling their expression.
Academic Positions
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Staff Scientist
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
Education
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Ph. D. Biological Sciences 2015
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore
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M. Sc. Biotechnology 2009
University of Pune
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B. Sc. Biotechnology 2007
University of Mumbai
Awards
- 2022Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship
- 2021Mentored Research Award (120000 USD) by the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation
- 2020Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award Postdoctoral Training Office, City of Hope to attend Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conference
- 2019Poster presentation award at "The Mobile DNA Conference: 25 Years of Discussion and Research" by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- 2018Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award from Postdoctoral Training Office, City of Hope to attend Keystone conference
- 2016IBCN Catherine Peachey Oral Presentation Award from International Breast Cancer and Nutrition
- 2015'Paper of the year' award from The Japanese Biochemical Society
- 2015International Travel Award by Department of Biotechnology and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India to attend Keystone conference
- 2011-2015Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
- 20103rd best poster award at the 3rd Meeting of the Asian Forum of Chromosome and Chromatin Biology: Epigenetics and Disease
- 2009-2011Junior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Patents
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Monoclonal Antibodies against NPM1 and Acetylated NPM1, and Process Thereof. Inventors: Tapas Kumar Kundu, Parijat Senapati, Gopinath Kodaganur Srinivasachar, Deepthi Sudarshan, Manjula Das, Smitha Pazhoor Kumaran, Manjunath Shivasangappa Devaraman, Ajithkumar Sumitrappa. Patent No. 309617
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Specific antibodies to detect Aurora kinases A and -B phosphorylation at Ser125-NPM1 and its use thereof. Inventors: Tapas Kumar Kundu, Jayasha Shandilya, Parijat Senapati. PCT/IB2011/052734
Memberships
Life member, Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), India
Life member, Indian Society of Cell Biology
Member, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) (2017-2022)
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2018-2022)
