Principal Investigator

Epigenetics and RNA Processing Lab (ERPL)

• I completed my Ph.D. in Biochemistry under the guidance of Dr. Surekha M. Zingde at the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research, and Education (ACTREC), Navi Mumbai.

• I joined the laboratory of Dr. Lopa Mishra at Georgetown University Medical Centre, Washington DC, to study TGF-beta signaling in hepatocellular carcinoma.

• I joined the laboratory of Dr. Shalini Oberdoerffer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Cancer Institute (NCI), Maryland, in 2010, where we identified a novel mechanism of regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing (Nature 2011).

• I joined IISER Bhopal in May 2013, where I study the interplay between epigenetic modifications and alternative pre-mRNA splicing in the context of Cancer Biology.

• My mission is to advance the scientific knowledge and understanding of cancer biology and to inspire and train the next generation of scientists and innovators. 

Phone: +91 755 269 1409

Post-Doctoral Fellow

• As a researcher trained in the fundamentals of Biological Sciences, my research interfaces the disciplines of Molecular biology, Cell biology, Genetic engineering, and epigenetics.

• I have completed my Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India where I have led the molecular-level approach to finding potential malaria transmission-blocking vaccine candidates. 

• I did M.Sc. Genetic Engineering from School of Biotechnology, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore. 

• Currently, I aim to investigate the CTCF/BORIS associated epigenetic complex that regulates the metastasis genes. In addition, I am also decoding the regulatory mechanisms that derive divergent expression of the two duplicated genes, CTCF, and BORIS. In the future, this will open up new frontiers in designing anti-cancer drug/therapeutics targeting CTCF/BORIS associated epigenetic complexes.