Name: Dr. Sunando Datta
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Biology
E-Mail: sunando@iiserbhopal.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092307
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

• Assistant Professor (December 2009-), Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.

• Post doctoral fellow (august 2007 – November 2009) Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and genetics, Dresden, Germany with Prof. Marino Zerial.

• Post doctoral fellow (January 2004 – July 2007) Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA with Prof. Richard A. Cerione.

• Ph.D.  (August 1997 – September 2003) Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India with Prof. M. Vijayan.

Research Interest:

• Biochemical and structural studies on regulators of endocytosis.

• Structural studies on regulators of phagocytosis in Entamoeba histolytica.

• Study of signaling processes in host cells infected with T3SS positive Gram negative bacteria.

Selected Publications:

1. Identification of the switch in early-to-late endosome transition. Dmitry Poteryaev, Sunando Datta, Katrin Ackema, Marino Zerial and Anne Spang. Accepted for publication in Cell.(Co- First Author).

2. GTP-binding-defective forms of tissue transglutaminase trigger cell death. Datta S, Antonyak MA, Cerione RA.  Biochemistry. 2007 Dec 25;46(51):14819-29. Epub 2007 Dec 1.

3. Importance of Ca(2+)-dependent transamidation activity in the protection afforded by tissue transglutaminase against doxorubicin-induced apoptosis. Datta S, Antonyak MA, Cerione RA. Biochemistry. 2006 Nov 7;45(44):13163-74.

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