Namasthe!

You are welcome to take a peek!

I work with Prof. Saleem Khan at the University of Pittsburgh... studying how rolling circle plasmids replicate. I am also having some serious fun with a helicase called PcrA!

U Pitt is a nice place to work and the surrounding areas are great for fun and living.

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Long term goal

My long term goal is to study the complex interplay of events during DNA replication, repair and recombination. I would like to concentrate my efforts on proteins that have a direct influence on accessibility of DNA to these processes, namely helicases and chromatin modifiers, their regulation and their interaction with other proteins. In the long run, I would like to focus on challenges that are imposed by non-standard substrates and how they might direct the evolution of specialized functions in proteins. I also have a keen interest in non-coding DNA and mobile genetics elements and genome plasticity. Until now, I have been attempting to address these questions in bacteria. Using my experience in biochemistry, I wish to develop cell free systems for performing biochemical analyses with reconstituted proteins. I believe in the power of genetics and biochemistry.

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 A little (too much?) about myself:

I was born and brought up in Palakkad............................ charming, calm and probably one of the best places in India to enjoy tropical monsoons.

Schooling: NSS high school, Ottapalam

College: NSS college, Ottapalam (Botany).

Masters: Mahatma Gandhi University (Microbiology)

Ph. D: Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Click here to go to read an exciting and concise summary of my Ph. D work.