INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL

 

Name: Dr. Ram Kumar Mishra
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Biology
E-Mail: rkmishra@iiserb.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092307
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

  • Assistant Professor (October 2011-), Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
  • Post-doc. (July 2010 – October 2011), Sensory Cell Regeneration and Development Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, MD, USA .
  • Post-doc. (June 2005 – June 2010), Section on Cell Cycle Regulation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Ph.D.In Biology from Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai (2005).

Research Interest:

  • Molecular and Cell biology of Nuclear pore and their dynamics during cell division, Mitotic events during cell cycle, Microtubule dynamics in mitosis and Developmental biology.


Selected Publications:

  1. The Nup107-160 complex and g-TuRC regulate microtubule polymerization at kinetochoreRam Kumar Mishra, Papia Chakraborty, Alexei Arnaoutov, Beatriz M.A. Fontoura, and Mary Dasso. Nat Cell Biol. 12(2):164-9 (2010).

  2. Vesicular stomatitis virus inhibits mitotic progression and triggers cell death. Chakraborty P, Seemann J, Mishra RK, Wei JH, Weil L, Nussenzveig DR, Heiber J, Barber GN, Dasso M, Fontoura BM. EMBO Rep.10(10):1154-60 (2009).

  3. Residue-level NMR view of the urea-driven equilibrium folding transition of SUMO-1 (1-97): native preferences do not increase monotonously. Kumar A, Srivastava S, Kumar, Mishra R, Mittal R, Hosur RV. J Mol Biol. 361(1):180-94 (2006)

  4. Local structural preferences and dynamics restrictions in the urea-denatured state of SUMO-1: NMR characterization. Kumar A, Srivastava S, Mishra RK, Mittal R, Hosur RV. Biophys J. 90(7):2498-509 (2006).

  5. Folding regulates autoprocessing of HIV-1 protease precursor. Chatterjee A, Mridula P, Mishra RK, Mittal R, Hosur RV. J Biol Chem. 280(12):11369-78 (2005).

  6. Dynamin interacts with members of the sumoylation machinery. Mishra RK, Jatiani SS, Kumar A, Simhadri VR, Hosur RV, Mittal R. J Biol Chem. 279(30):31445-54 (2004).

>>more
 



IISER HOME