

Chromatin Dynamics Lab
Prof. Chandrima Das
Biophysical Sciences Division
Decoding Chromatin to Understand Disease
We investigate how chromatin readers and epigenetic regulators reshape transcriptional programs, cellular metabolism and cell fate, and how their dysregulation drives cancer, metabolic disorders and host-pathogen interactions.

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics



Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

RESEARCH FOCUS
Chromatin & Epigenetics
How chromatin readers and epigenetic regulators control gene expression.
Cancer & Metabolism
Understanding how altered transcription and metabolism contribute to disease
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Exploring how cellular regulatory mechanisms influence infection and disease progression
From molecular mechanisms to disease biology


About Us
Mammalian genome is organized into a highly ordered nucleoprotein complex known as chromatin. Several small modifications both in DNA and protein component of chromatin fine-tune the underlying gene expression programs, genome repair as well as replication and are coined as epigenetic modifications. The alterations in the epigenomic landscape of chromatin are causally related to normal homeostasis of the organism and so as the pathobiological state. The molecular mechanism of epigenetic modification based functions is operated through the protein which recognizes this modification and thereby differentially recruits several other regulatory factors. The research focus of Prof. Chandrima Das group at the Chromatin Dynamics laboratory, SINP is to understand some of these epigenetic readers in the context of cellular functions and their possible connection to the disease, including metabolic as well as infectious diseases.

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