-Curriculum Vitae-

SRIMONTI SARKAR

Work Address:

Department of Biochemistry

Bose Institute
Centenary Campus
P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme - VIIM
Kolkata - 700054
West Bengal, India

Phone: 033-2569-3229

Email:

Education:

Degree / Year Conferred / Institution / Area of Study
B.Sc.
M.Sc. / 1991
1993 / St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
University of Calcutta, Kolkata / Chemistry
Biochemistry
Ph.D. / 2000 / Pennsylvania State University
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology / Cellular & Molecular Biology

Awards & Recognitions:

1991  First Class in B.Sc.

1993 Ranked First in M.Sc.

1993 Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India

1999 Alumni Endowed Scholarship, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

1999 Life Sciences Consortium Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University

Professional Experience:

2000-2003 Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,

University of California San Diego, USA

Supervisor: Dr. Scott D. Emr

2004 Research Fellow, Department of Biotechnology,

University of Calcutta, Kolkata

2004- 2007 Lecturer, Department of Biotechnology,

West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

2007-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Kolkata

2011- Present Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry,

Bose Institute, Kolkata

Courses Taught (last 3 years):

Bose Institute (M.Sc.-Ph.D.)- Molecular Biology, Advanced Genetics, Genetics and Genomics

Bose Institute (Ph.D. course work)- Microscopy

Calcutta Univ. (Genetics)- Genetics and Cell Biology

Invited Talks:

December 2009 Department of Microbiology, West Bengal State University

April 2010 Department of Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland

July 2012 Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University, U.S.A.

March 2013 India-UK Scientific Seminars, Kolkata

June 2014 Symposium at Ohio State University, U.S.A.

November 2014 DNA Society of India, Kolkata

February 2015 Department of Genetics, Calcutta University, Kolkata

Students granted degrees:

Dates / Name / Current Position
2007 – 2012 / Sumana Banerjee (Ph.D.) / No longer in science
2008 – 2013 / Abhishek Sinha (Ph.D.) / PDF, Univ. of Haifa, Israel
2010 – 2016 / Somnath Dutta (Ph.D.) / PDF, NCCS, Pune
2010 – 2011 / Kaushik Kant Panda (M.S.) / Ph.D. student at Ohio State Univ., USA
2010 – 2011 / Debashish Hira (M.S.) / No longer in science
2014 / Debarya Saha (M.Sc.) / Ph.D. student at CCMB
2015 / Satyaki Chatterjee (M.Sc.) / Ph.D. student at Bose Institute

Membership of profession societies:

Society of Biological Chemists, India

DNA Society of India

Indian Society of Translational Research

Outreach Activities:

Summer School in Basic Sciences organized by Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (2015 & 2016)

Annual Science Meet of La Martiniere for Girls’, Kolkata (2015)

Publication:

  1. Sarkar, S. and Hopper, A.K. (1998). tRNA nuclear export in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: In situ Hybridization analysis. Molecular Biology of the Cell, Volume 9: 3041-3055
  1. Sarkar, S., Azad, A.K., and Hopper, A.K. (1999). Nuclear tRNA aminoacylation and its role in nuclear export of endogenous tRNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Volume 96: 14366-14371
  1. Qui, H., Hu, C., Anderson, J., Bjork, G.R., Sarkar, S., Hopper, A.K., and Hinnebusch, A.G. (2000). Defects in tRNA processing and nuclear export induce GCN4 translation independently of phosphorylation of the subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2. Molecular and Cellular Biology, Volume 20: 2505-2516.
  1. Azad, A.K., Stanford, D.R., Sarkar, S., and Hopper, A.K. (2001). Role of nuclear pools of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in tRNA nuclear export. Molecular Biology of the Cell, Volume 12: 1381-1392.
  1. Burda, P., Padilla, S.M., Sarkar, S., and Emr, S.D. (2002). Retromer function in endosome-to-Glogi retrograde transport is regulated by the yeast Vps34 PtdIns 3-kinase. Journal of Cell Science, Volume 115: 3889-3900.
  1. Katzmann, D.J.*, Sarkar, S.*, Chu, T.Y.*, Audhya, A., and Emr, S.D. (2004). Multivesicular Body Sorting: Ubiquitin Ligase Rsp5 is required for the modification and sorting of Carboxypeptidase S. Molecular Biology of the Cell, Volume 15: 468-480. (*Equal contribution).
  1. Banerjee, S., Basu, S. *, and Sarkar, S. * (2010). Comparative genomics reveals selective distribution and domain organization of FYVE and PX domain proteins across eukaryotic lineages. BMC Genomics, Volume 11: 83. (*Co-corresponding authors)
  1. Ray, T., Maity, P.C., Banerjee, S., Deb, S., Dasgupta, A.K., Sarkar, S.*, and Sil, A.K.*. (2010). Vitamin C prevents cigarette smoke induced atherosclerosis in guinea pig model. Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, Volume 17: 817-827. (*Co-corresponding authors)
  2. Sinha, A., Mandal, S., Banerjee, S., Ghosh, A., Ganguly, S., Sil, A.K., and Sarkar, S. (2011). Identification and characterization of a FYVE domain from the early diverging eukaryote Giardia lamblia. Current Microbiology Volume 62: 1179-1184.
  3. Ghosh, A., Karmalar, S., Mukherjee, A.K., Raj, D., Das, K., Sarkar, S., Nozaki, T. and Ganguly, S. (2013). The spliceosomal protein SnRNP F binds to both U3 and U14 class of snoRNA in Giardia lamblia. Global Journal of Biology, Agriculture & Health Sciences Volume 2: 178-184.
  4. Das, B., Ray, T., Panda, K., Maiti, A., Sarkar, S. and Sil, A.K. (2014). Leucine and its transporter provide protection against cigarette smoke-induced cell death: a potential therapy for emphysema. Toxicology Reports Volume 1 752-763.
  5. Sinha, A., Datta, S.P., Ray, A. and Sarkar, S. (2015). A reduced VWA domain-containing proteasomal ubiquitin receptor of Giardia lamblia localized to the flagellar pore regions in microtubule-dependent manner. Parasites & Vectors Volume 8:120 (DOI 10.1186/s13071-015-0737-1).
  6. Dutta, S., Saha, N., Ray, A. and Sarkar, S. (2015). Significantly-diverged Did2/Vps46 orthologues from the protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia. Current Microbiology Volume 71(3): 333-40 (DOI: 10.1007/s00284-015-0844-4)
  7. Sinha, A#., Ray, A#., Ganguly, S., Ghosh Dastidar, S.,* and Sarkar, S.*. (2015). Variation in the ribosome interacting loop of the Sec61a from Giardia lamblia. Biology Direct Sep 30; 10(1): 56. (DOI: 10.1186/s13062-015-0087-0) (# Equal contributors; *Co-corresponding authors)
  8. Ray, A. and Sarkar S. The proteasome of the differently-diverged eukaryote Giardia lamblia and its role in remodeling of the microtubule-based cytoskeleton (2016). Critical Reviews in Microbiology. doi: 10.1080/1040841X.2016.1262814. [Epub ahead of print]

Book Chapter

A. Sinha, S. Sarkar. Ubiquitin-Proteasome System- a target to control pathogenic protozoa. In Microbial pathogens and strategies for combating them: science, technology and education, Formatex Research Center, Spain, 2013.