INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL

 

Name: Dr. Raghuvir Singh Tomar
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Biology
E-Mail: rst@iiserbhopal.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092307
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

  • Assistant Professor (January 2009-), Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
  • Post-doc. January 2007- December 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus (USA).
  • Post-doc. October 2003 - December 2006, The Penn State University, University Park (USA).
  • Post-doc. May 2002 – September 2003, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas (USA).
  • Ph.D. in Zoology, 2001 from Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Laboratory, Center for Advanced Study in Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

Research Interest:

  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Eukaryotic transcription regulation and Chromatin remodeling of DNA damage repair factors.


Selected Publications:

  1. Raghuvir S. Tomar, Hittu Matta, Berdymammet Hozayev, Priti Chugh, and Preet M. Chaudhary (2003). Use of Lentiviral Vectors for Delivery of Small Interfering RNA Cancer Biology and Therapy, 2, 206-210.

  2. Anil K. Panigrahi, Raghuvir S. Tomarand Madan M. Chaturvedi (2003) Mechanism of nucleosome disruption and octamer transfer by the chicken SWI/SNF -like complex Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication, 306, 72-78.

  3. Anil K. Panigrahi; Raghuvir S. Tomarand Madan M. Chaturvedi (2003) A SWI/SNF-like Factor from Chicken Liver that Disrupts Nucleosomes and Transfers Histone Octamers in cis and trans" Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 414, 24-33.

  4. Raghuvir S Tomar, Hittu Matta and Preet Chaudhary (2003) Use of adeno associated viral vectors for delivery of Small interfering RNA, Oncogene, 22, 5712-5715.

  5. Saila Kauppila, Walid S. A. Maaty, Po Chen, Raghuvir S. Tomar, Michael T. Eby, Joe Chapo, Sukit Chew, Nisha Rathore, Sunny Zachariah, John M. Abrams and Preet M. Chaudhary (2003) Eiger and its receptor, Wengen, comprise a TNF-like system in Drosophila Oncogene, 22, 4860-4867.

  6. V.M. Sharma, Raghuvir S. Tomar, A.E. Dempsey, and J.C. Reese (2007) Histone   deacetylases RPD3 and HOS2 regulate transcriptional activation of DNA damage inducible genes. Mol. Cell. Biol., 27, 3199-3210.

  7. Raghuvir S. Tomar, Suting Zheng, Deborah Brunke-Reese, Holly N. Walcott, and Joseph C. Reese (2008). Yeast Rap1 contributes to genomic integrity by activating DNA damage repair genes. EMBO J., 27, 1575-1584.

  8. Raghuvir S. Tomar, James N. Psathas, Hesheng Zhang, Zhengjian Zhang and Joseph C. Reese (2009). A novel mechanism of antagonism between chromatin remodeling complexes regulates RNR3 expression. Mol Cell. Biol., 29, 3255-3265.

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