top of page

Dr. Chandrima Das

National/International Platform Presentation

2021 Invited Speaker, Online webinar ACS Spring 2021 organized by American Chemical Society

2021 Invited Speaker, 15th Asian Epigenomics Meeting, to be hosted through online webinar

2021 Invited Speaker, online webinar to be hosted by Ramkrishna Mission Vivekananda Education and Research Institute (RKMVERI)

2020 Invited Speaker, Progress & Prospects in Biology, online webinar

2020 Invited Speaker, American Chemical Society (ACS)-India, online webinar

2020 Invited Speaker, Frontiers in Modern Biology, IISER, Kolkata, India

2020 Invited Speaker, Phenotypic Heterogeneity as a driver of cancer progression, IISc, Bangalore, India

2019 Invited Speaker, 43rd annual meeting of Indian Society of Cell Biology, IISER, Mohali, India

2019 Invited Speaker, 8th Annual Conference of International Chemical Biology Society, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India

2019 Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Frontiers in Development and Molecular Medicine Models to Insights, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata,        India

2019 Invited Speaker, Carcinogenesis, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India

2019 Invited Speaker, Frontiers in Biological Sciences, St. Xavier’s College, India

2018 Invited Speaker, The 13th annual meeting of Asian Epigenome Alliance, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

2018 Invited Speaker, 7th Meeting of the Asian Forum for Chromosome and Chromatin Biology, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

2018 Invited Speaker, 37th Indian Association of Cancer Research- From Cancer Biology to Precision Oncology: Challenges and                          Considerations, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

2018 Invited Speaker, 20th Transcription Assembly Meeting, CDFD, Hyderabad, India

2018 Invited Speaker, Recent Advances in Applied Biological Sciences, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

2018 8th conclave for the Ramalingaswami Fellowship recipients, NIPGR, Delhi, India

2018 Lecture Workshop on Epigenetics and Human Health organized by Indian Academy of Sciences, Garden City University, Bangalore, India

2017 Featured Speaker, 15th Asian Conference on Transcription (ACT-XV), Penang, Malaysia

2017 6th conclave for the Ramalingaswami Fellowship recipients, IISER, Pune, India

2016 Invited Speaker, 11th Asian Epigenomics Meeting, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

2015 Invited Speaker, 5th Meeting of the Asian Forum for Chromosome and Chromatin Biology, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

2015 4th conclave for the Ramalingaswami Fellowship recipients, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneshwar, India

2014 Invited Speaker, 17th Transcription Assembly Meeting, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

2013 Invited Speaker, 16th Transcription Assembly Meeting, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

2011 Post-doctoral Oral Presentation, Epigenetics Retreat, US

2008 Post-doctoral Oral Presentation, 2nd Meeting of the Asian Forum for Chromosome and Chromatin Biology, India

​

Meeting Organization and Outreach Activities

 

2019 Invited as a Panelist for the regional Kolkata Young Investigators Meeting on “Collate and Collaborate: The investigators’ perspective”,       Presidency University, Kolkata, India

2019 Member of Organizing Committee of “School and Symposium on Advances in Biomedical Mass Spectrometry”, SINP, Kolkata, India

2018 Joint Convener of “Cancer Biology- Still a challenge in 21st century”, SINP, Kolkata, India

2018 Member of Organizing Committee of “INDO-JAPAN Conference: Epigenetics, Human Microbiomes and Disease”, Bose Institute, Kolkata,    India

2016 Joint Convener of “19th Transcription Assembly Meeting”, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

2015 Member of Organizing Committee of National Symposium on “Frontiers of Biology: The DAE Spectra”, SINP, Kolkata, India

2013 Member of Organizing Committee of “Biomolecular Recognition and Chemical Biology”, SINP, Kolkata, India

Extramural and Intramural Research Projects

 

2020 Intramural Project Participant as one of the PI from SINP submitted to Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India; 2020-2023

2019 Extramural Project as PI from Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India; 2019-2022

2019 Extramural Project as PI from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; 2019-2022

2018 Extramural Project as Co-PI from the mission of Life Sciences research Board (LSRB) of Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO); 2018-2021

2015 Extramural Project as PI from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; 2015-2018

2012 Intramural Project Participant as one of the PI from SINP submitted to Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India; 2012-2020

Teaching Experience

 

  • Post M.Sc Course Curriculum of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics: (i) Principles of Biochemistry (PBC)
    in the Basic Course and (ii) Topics in Cell Biology- Chromatin and Epigenetics (TCB) in the Advanced Course.

  • Invited for teaching a course in the Int. M.Sc.-Ph.D. program of Indian Association of Cultivation of Science
    entitled “Epigenetics (course no. AI5217)”.

  • Invited for teaching in the M.Sc. Special Class on “Chromatin and Epigenetics”.

Payel Mondal

Awards Received 

.

  • Department of Atomic Energy-Research Fellowship- 2015

  • Qualified National Eligibility Test-India (Lectureship)- 2014

​

Poster presentation

​

  • 19th Transcription Assembly Mating on November 7 2016 -November 8, 2016 at Kolkata, India.

  •  20th Transcription Assembly Meeting on July 25, 2018 -July 27, 2018 at Hyderabad, India.

  •  SINP International Cancer Meeting 2018:Cancer Biology Still A Challenge in 21st Century and SINP School on Epigenetics on September     26-28, 2018 at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.

  •  SINP school and symposium on advances in biomedical mass spectrometry 2019 (SSABMS 2019) on November 11-15, 2019 at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.

  •  FDMM 2019: Models to Insights held between March 1-3, 2019 at Biswa Bangla Convention Center, Kolkata, lndia.

  •  Asian Epigenomics Meeting  2021 held on 24-25th February, 2021 at Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore (attended Virtually).

  •  ACS Spring 2021 held between 05-30th April organized Virtually.

​

Oral Presentation

​

  • One Day Symposium of Society of Biological Chemists, Kolkata Chapter, 2018 held on 8th September, 2018.

  • One day Mini-Symposium entitled "Bridging Chemistry and Biology for  Human Health & Diseases” held on 21st September 2019 at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India.

  • Symposium on “Current Trends in Biology for Human Diseases and Medicine” held on 19-21st March, 2021 at Shankarpur, West Bengal, India

​

Peer-reviewed publications

 

  1. Mondal P, Tiwary N, Sengupta A, Dhang S, Roy S, Das C. (2022). Epigenetic Reprogramming of the Glucose Metabolic Pathways by the Chromatin Effectors During Cancer. Subcell Biochem. 2022;100:269-336.

  2. Sengupta I.*, Mondal P.*, Sengupta A.*, Mondal A., Singh V., Adhikari S., Dhang S., Roy S and Das C. (2022). Epigenetic regulation of Fructose-1, 6-Bisphosphatase 1 by host transcription factor Speckled 110 kDa during Hepatitis B Virus infection. FEBS J. 2022 doi:10.1111/febs.16544

  3. Dasgupta A, Mondal P, Dalui S, Das C, Roy S. (2021). Molecular characterization of substrate-induced ubiquitin transfer by UBR7-PHD finger, a newly identified histone H2BK120 ubiquitin ligase.FEBS J. 2022 Apr;289(7):1842-1857. 

  4. Mondal P, Gadad SS, Adhikari S, Ramos EI, Sen S, Prasad P, Das C. (2021). TCF19 and p53 regulate transcription of TIGAR and SCO2 in HCC for mitochondrial energy metabolism and stress adaptation. FASEB J. 35(9):e21814. 

  5. Mukherjee, S., Adhikary, S., Gadad, S. S., Mondal, P., Sen, S., Choudhari, R., Singh, V., Adhikari, S., Mandal, P., & Chaudhuri, S. (2020). Suppression of poised oncogenes by ZMYND8 promotes chemo-sensitization. Cell Death & Disease, 11(12), 1–18.

  6. Sanyal, S., Mondal, P., Sen, S., Sengupta, S., & Das, C. (2020). SUMO E3 ligase CBX4 regulates hTERT- mediated transcription of CDH1 and promotes breast cancer cell migration and invasion. Biochemical Journal, 477(19), 3803–3818.

  7. Karmakar D, Maity J, Mondal P, Shyam Chowdhury P, Sikdar N, Karmakar P, Das C, Sengupta S. 2020. E2F5 promotes prostate cancer cell migration and invasion through regulation of TFPI2, MMP-2 and MMP-9. Carcinogenesis. 41(12):1767-1780.

  8. Mondal, P., Sen, S., Klein, B. J., Tiwary, N., Gadad, S. S., Kutateladze, T. G., Roy, S., & Das, C. (2019). TCF19 promotes cell proliferation through binding to the histone H3K4me3 mark. Biochemistry, 59(4), 389–399. (Accepted for Supplementary Cover Page Publication)

  9. Chakraborty B, Mondal P, Gajendra P, Mitra M, Das C, Sengupta S. 2018. Deciphering genetic regulation of CD14 by SP1 through characterization of peripheral blood mononuclear transcriptome of P. faiciparum and P. vivax infected malaria patients. EBioMedicine. 37:442-452

Vipin Singh

Awards Received 

.

  • Department of Atomic Energy-Research Fellowship- 2018

  • Qualified National Eligibility Test-India (JRF)- 2017

​

Poster presentation

​

  •   School and Symposium on advances in Biomedical Mass Spectrometry & Metabolomics Workshop’, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 2019

  •   Phenotypic heterogeneity as a driver of Cancer Progression’,  IISC Bangalore conference , 2020

 

​

Peer-reviewed publications

 

  1. Pandita TK, Hunt CR, Singh V, Adhikary S, Pandita S, Roy S, Ramos K, Das C. (2022). Role of the Histone Acetyl Transferase MOF and the Histone Deacetylase Sirtuins in Regulation of H4K16ac During DNA Damage Repair and Metabolic Programming: Implications in Cancer and Aging. Subcell Biochem. 2022;100:115-141.

  2. Adhikary S, Singh V, Choudhari R, Yang B, Adhikari S, Ramos EI, Chaudhuri S, Roy S, Gadad SS, Das C. (2022). ZMYND8 suppresses MAPT213 LncRNA transcription to promote neuronal differentiation. Cell Death Dis. 2022 Sep 5;13(9):766.

  3. Sengupta I.*, Mondal P.*, Sengupta A.*, Mondal A., Singh V., Adhikari S., Dhang S., Roy S and Das C. (2022). Epigenetic regulation of Fructose-1, 6-Bisphosphatase 1 by host transcription factor Speckled 110 kDa during Hepatitis B Virus infection. FEBS J. 2022 doi:10.1111/febs.16544

  4. Adhikari S, Bhattacharya A, Adhikary S, Singh V, Gadad SS, Roy S, Das C. (2022). The paradigm of drug resistance in cancer: an epigenetic perspective. Biosci Rep. 2022 Apr 29;42(4):BSR20211812.

  5. Chakraborty S, Singh M, Pandita RK, Singh V, Lo CSC, Leonard F, Horikoshi N, Moros EG, Guha D, Hunt CR, Chau E, Ahmed KM, Sethi P, Charaka V, Godin B, Makhijani K, Scherthan H, Deck J, Hausmann M, Mushtaq A, Altaf M, Ramos KS, Bhat KM, Taneja N, Das C, Pandita TK. (2022). Heat-induced SIRT1-mediated H4K16ac deacetylation impairs resection and SMARCAD1 recruitment to double strand breaks. iScience. 2022 Mar 23;25(4):104142.

  6. Mondal A, Bhattacharya A, Singh V, Pandita S, Bacolla A, Pandita RK, Tainer JA, Ramos KS, Pandita TK, Das C. Stress responses as master keys to epigenomic changes in transcriptome and metabolome for cancer etiology and therapeutics. Mol Cell Biol. 2021 Nov 8:MCB0048321. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00483-21.

  7. Mukherjee, S., Adhikary, S., Gadad, S. S., Mondal, P., Sen, S., Choudhari, R., Singh, V., Adhikari, S., Mandal, P., & Chaudhuri, S. (2020). Suppression of poised oncogenes by ZMYND8 promotes chemo-sensitization. Cell Death & Disease, 11(12), 1–18.

Swagata Adhikari

Awards Received 

.

  • Department of Atomic Energy-Research Fellowship- 2018

  • Qualified National Eligibility Test-India (JRF)- 2017

​

Poster presentation

​

  •   School and Symposium on advances in Biomedical Mass Spectrometry & Metabolomics Workshop’, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 2019

  • Phenotypic heterogeneity as a driver of Cancer Progression’,  IISC Bangalore conference , 2020

 

Peer-reviewed publications

 

  1. Adhikari S, Guha D, Mohan C, Mukherjee S, Tyler JK, Das C. (2022). Reprogramming Carbohydrate Metabolism in Cancer and Its Role in Regulating the Tumor Microenvironment. Subcell Biochem. 2022;100:3-65.

  2. Adhikary S, Singh V, Choudhari R, Yang B, Adhikari S, Ramos EI, Chaudhuri S, Roy S, Gadad SS, Das C. (2022). ZMYND8 suppresses MAPT213 LncRNA transcription to promote neuronal differentiation. Cell Death Dis. 2022 Sep 5;13(9):766.

  3. Dalui S, Dasgupta A, Adhikari S, Das C, Roy S. (2022). Human testis-specific Y-encoded protein-like protein 5 is a histone H3/H4-specific chaperone that facilitates histone deposition in vitro. J Biol Chem. 2022 Aug;298(8):102200.

  4. Sengupta I.*, Mondal P.*, Sengupta A.*, Mondal A., Singh V., Adhikari S., Dhang S., Roy S and Das C. (2022). Epigenetic regulation of Fructose-1, 6-Bisphosphatase 1 by host transcription factor Speckled 110 kDa during Hepatitis B Virus infection. FEBS J. 2022 doi:10.1111/febs.16544

  5. Adhikari S, Bhattacharya A, Adhikary S, Singh V, Gadad SS, Roy S, Das C. (2022). The paradigm of drug resistance in cancer: an epigenetic perspective. Biosci Rep. 2022 Apr 29;42(4):BSR20211812.

  6. Mondal P, Gadad SS, Adhikari S, Ramos EI, Sen S, Prasad P, Das C. (2021). TCF19 and p53 regulate transcription of TIGAR and SCO2 in HCC for mitochondrial energy metabolism and stress adaptation. FASEB J. 35(9):e21814. 

  7. Mukherjee, S., Adhikary, S., Gadad, S. S., Mondal, P., Sen, S., Choudhari, R., Singh, V., Adhikari, S., Mandal, P., & Chaudhuri, S. (2020). Suppression of poised oncogenes by ZMYND8 promotes chemo-sensitization. Cell Death & Disease, 11(12), 1–18.

Atanu Mondal

Awards Received 

.

  • Department of Atomic Energy-Research Fellowship- 2021

  • Joint Graduate Entrance Examination for Biology and Interdisciplinary Life Sciences (JGEEBILS)- 2021

  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)- 2021

  • West Bengal State Eligibility Test- 2021

  • Qualified National Eligibility Test-India - 2019

​

Peer-reviewed publications

​​

  1. Nandi S, Mondal A, Ghosh A, Mukherjee S and Das C. Lnc-ing epigenetic mechanisms with autophagy and cancer drug resistance. Advances in Cancer Research (In press)

  2. Sikder S, Mondal A, Das C, Kundu TK. Autophagy in Cancer: A Metabolic Perspective. Subcellular Biochemistry. 2022;100:143-172. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-07634-3_5. PMID: 36301494.

  3. Sengupta I, Mondal A, Sengupta A, Das C. Oncogenic Virus-Induced Oxidative Stress and Epigenetic Regulation: An Insight into Host DNA Methylation. Springer Nature. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1247-3_83-1.

  4. Sengupta I, Mondal P, Sengupta A, Mondal A, Singh V, Adhikari S, Dhang S, Roy S, Das C. Epigenetic regulation of Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase 1 by host transcription factor Speckled 110 kDa during hepatitis B virus infection. FEBS J. 2022 Nov;289(21):6694-6713. doi: 10.1111/febs.16544. Epub 2022 Jun 25. PMID: 35653238.

  5. Mondal A, Bhattacharya A, Singh V, Pandita S, Bacolla A, Pandita RK, Tainer JA, Ramos KS, Pandita TK, Das C. Stress responses as master keys to epigenomic changes in transcriptome and metabolome for cancer etiology and therapeutics. Mol Cell Biol. 2021 Nov 8:MCB0048321. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00483-21.

Dr. Amrita Sengupta

Awards Received 

​

  • Department of Biotechnology-Research Associateship Fellowship- 2019

  • Qualified National Eligibility Test-India (Lectureship)- 2011

  • Qualified Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Senior Research Fellowship-India 2011

 

Poster presentation

​

  • Sp110 reads H3K18ac and H3K36Me1 to respond to hypermetabolic state during Hepatitis B virus infected Hepatocellular carcinoma.” SINP School and Symposium on Advances in Biomedical Mass Spectrometry (11-17th November 2019) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (Presented Poster)

  • Sp110 reads H3K18ac and H3K36Me1 to respond to hypermetabolic state during Hepatitis B virus infected Hepatocellular carcinoma.”XLIII All India Cell Biology Conference, IISER Mohali December 19- 21, 2019 (Presented Poster)

  • Investigating the role of Reactive oxygen species in progression of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and consequent regulation of  double strand DNA damage response pathways” American Chemical Society Spring 2021  April 5-16 (Oral presentation)

​

Peer-reviewed publications

​​

  1. Mondal P, Tiwary N, Sengupta A, Dhang S, Roy S, Das C. (2022). Epigenetic Reprogramming of the Glucose Metabolic Pathways by the Chromatin Effectors During Cancer. Subcell Biochem. 2022;100:269-336.

  2. Sengupta I.*, Mondal P.*, Sengupta A.*, Mondal A., Singh V., Adhikari S., Dhang S., Roy S and Das C. (2022). Epigenetic regulation of Fructose-1, 6-Bisphosphatase 1 by host transcription factor Speckled 110 kDa during Hepatitis B Virus infection. FEBS J. 2022 doi:10.1111/febs.16544

  3. Mukherjee S*, Adhikary S*, Gadad SS, Mondal P, Sen S, Choudhari R, Singh V, Adhikari S, Mandal P, Chaudhuri S, Sengupta A, Lakshmanaswamy R, Chakrabarti P, Roy S, Das C. Suppression of poised oncogenes by ZMYND8 promotes chemo-sensitization. Cell Death Dis. 2020 Dec 15;11(12):1073. (*Contributed equally). JIF:6.304. 
     

  4. Mukherjee S, Sen S, Adhikary S*, Sengupta A, Mandal P, Dasgupta D, Chakrabarti P, Roy S, Das C. A novel role of tumor suppressor ZMYND8 in inducing differentiation of breast cancer cells through its dual histone binding function. J Biosci. 2020;45:2; 
    (*Second author). JIF:1.823.

Dr. Deblina Guha

Awards Received 

​

  • CSIR-UGC NET Fellowship, 2010

  • GATE (Biotechnology), 2010

  • DBT Research Associateship (“Multi dimensional Research to Enable Systems Medicine: Acceleration using a Cluster Approach”), 2018, Bose Institute

 

Peer-reviewed publications

​​

  1. Adhikari S, Guha D, Mohan C, Mukherjee S, Tyler JK, Das C. (2022). Reprogramming Carbohydrate Metabolism in Cancer and Its Role in Regulating the Tumor Microenvironment. Subcell Biochem. 2022;100:3-65.

  2. Chakraborty S, Singh M, Pandita RK, Singh V, Lo CSC, Leonard F, Horikoshi N, Moros EG, Guha D, Hunt CR, Chau E, Ahmed KM, Sethi P, Charaka V, Godin B, Makhijani K, Scherthan H, Deck J, Hausmann M, Mushtaq A, Altaf M, Ramos KS, Bhat KM, Taneja N, Das C, Pandita TK. (2022). Heat-induced SIRT1-mediated H4K16ac deacetylation impairs resection and SMARCAD1 recruitment to double strand breaks. iScience. 2022 Mar 23;25(4):104142.

​

Dr. Apoorva Bhattacharya

Awards Received 

​

  • CSIR-UGC NET Fellowship

 

Peer-reviewed publications

​​

  1. Adhikari S, Bhattacharya A, Adhikary S, Singh V, Gadad SS, Roy S, Das C. (2022). The paradigm of drug resistance in cancer: an epigenetic perspective. Biosci Rep. 2022 Apr 29;42(4):BSR20211812.

  2. Mondal A, Bhattacharya A, Singh V, Pandita S, Bacolla A, Pandita RK, Tainer JA, Ramos KS, Pandita TK, Das C. (2022). Stress Responses as Master Keys to Epigenomic Changes in Transcriptome and Metabolome for Cancer Etiology and Therapeutics. Mol Cell Biol 20;42(1):e0048321.

​

Dr. Santanu Adhikary 

Awards Received 

​​

  • 2018: Best Poster presentation Award at 7th Meeting of the Asian Forum of Chromosome and Chromatin Biology, JNCASR, Bangalore, India.

  • 2020: Best Oral presentation award at 39th Indian Association of Cancer Research, RGCB, Thiruvananthpuram, India.

  • 2020: Travel award (East Zone) at 39th Indian Association of Cancer Research, RGCB, Thiruvananthpuram, India.

 

Oral / Poster Presentations
 

  • Poster presentation at 6 th Meeting of the Asian Forum of Chromosome and Chromatin Biology, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad, India.
    March 2017. 

  • SBC (I), Amity University, Kolkata, India. September 8, 2018. Poster presentation at SINP International Cancer Meeting SINP,
    Kolkata, India. September 2018.

  • Poster presentation at 7 th Meeting of the Asian Forum of Chromosome and Chromatin Biology, JNCASR, Bangalore, India.
    November 2018. 

  •  Poster presentation at FDMM 2019, International Symposium, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata, India. March 2019.

  • Oral presentation at 39th Indian Association of Cancer Research, RGCB, Thiruvananthpuram, India. February 2020. 

​

​

Peer-reviewed publications

​

  1. Pandita TK, Hunt CR, Singh V, Adhikary S, Pandita S, Roy S, Ramos K, Das C. (2022). Role of the Histone Acetyl Transferase MOF and the Histone Deacetylase Sirtuins in Regulation of H4K16ac During DNA Damage Repair and Metabolic Programming: Implications in Cancer and Aging. Subcell Biochem. 2022;100:115-141.

  2. Adhikary S, Singh V, Choudhari R, Yang B, Adhikari S, Ramos EI, Chaudhuri S, Roy S, Gadad SS, Das C. (2022). ZMYND8 suppresses MAPT213 LncRNA transcription to promote neuronal differentiation. Cell Death Dis. 2022 Sep 5;13(9):766.

  3. Adhikari S, Bhattacharya A, Adhikary S, Singh V, Gadad SS, Roy S, Das C. (2022). The paradigm of drug resistance in cancer: an epigenetic perspective. Biosci Rep. 2022 Apr 29;42(4):BSR20211812.

  4. Mukherjee S*, Adhikary S*, Gadad SS, Mondal P, Sen S, Choudhari R, Singh V, Adhikari S, Mandal P, Chaudhuri S, Sengupta A, Lakshmanaswamy R, Chakrabarti P, Roy S, Das C. Suppression of poised oncogenes by ZMYND8 promotes chemo-sensitization. Cell Death Dis. 2020 Dec 15;11(12):1073. (*Contributed equally). JIF:6.304. 
     

  5. Mukherjee S, Sen S, Adhikary S*, Sengupta A, Mandal P, Dasgupta D, Chakrabarti P, Roy S, Das C. A novel role of tumor suppressor ZMYND8 in inducing differentiation of breast cancer cells through its dual histone binding function. J Biosci. 2020;45:2; 
    (*Second author). JIF:1.823.
     

  6. Adhikary S, Chakravarti D, Terranova C, Sengupta I, Maitituoheti M, Dasgupta A, Srivastava DK, Ma J, Raman AT, Tarco E, Sahin AA, Bassett R, Yang F, Tapia C, Roy S, Rai K, Das C. Atypical Plant Homeodomain of UBR7 Functions as an H2BK120Ub Ligase and Breast Tumor Suppressor. Nature Commun. 2019; JIF:12.53.
     

  7. Adhikary S, Sanyal S, Basu M, Sengupta I, Sen S, Srivastava DK, Roy S, Das C. Selective Recognition of H3.1K36 Dimethylation/H4K16 Acetylation Facilitates the Regulation of All-trans-retinoic Acid (ATRA)-responsive Genes by Putative Chromatin Reader ZMYND8. J Biol Chem. 2016;291(6):2664-81. JIF:4.55.
     

  8. Adhikary S, Roy S, Chacon J, Gadad SS, Das C. Implications of enhancer transcription and eRNAs in cancer. Cancer Res. 2021; JIF:9.88
     

  9. Mukherjee S, Adhikary S, Roy S, Das C. Chapter: Noncoding RNAs Act as a Chromatin Scaffold of Histone Modification Complexes in Cancer. Book: Cancer and Noncoding RNAs. Elsevier. 

Dr. Sulagna Sanyal

Awards Received 

​​

  • Qualified IIT-Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) under Life Sciences category, 2013

  • Awarded with Dr. S.N. Banerjee Memorial Gold Medal for being top scorer in the Molecular and Applied Mycology and Plant Pathology special paper of Botany in the M.Sc. Examination of the University Of Calcutta, 2012.
     

 

Oral / Poster Presentations/ Workshops
 

  • Poster presentation at 39th Annual Conference of Indian Association for Cancer Research, 2020 held at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram from 5th to 7th February, 2020.

  • Poster presentation at SINP International Cancer Meeting, 2018 held at Saha Institute of Nuckear Physics, Kolkata from 26th to 28th September, 2018.

  • Poster presentation at 6th Meeting of the Asian Forum of Chromosome and Chromatin Biology held at CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad from 3rd to 5th March, 2017.

  • Poster presentation at International Symposium on Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery from 1st to 3rd March, 2016, held at Taj Bengal, Alipore, Kolkata.

  • Attended Symposium on Biomolecular Recognition and Chemical Biology 2013, held at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

  • Attended 16th Transcription Assembly Meeting 2013, held at Vedic Village, Kolkata from 3rd to 5th March, 2013.

  • Attended a workshop on handling and care of Laboratory Animals (including basic handling, learning ethical approaches towards animal experiment, learning different modes of animal injection like subcutaneous, intraperitoneal, intravenous and basic knowledge of surgery) at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 4th to 7th February, 2019.

​

​

Peer-reviewed publications

​

  1. Sanyal, S., Mondal, P., Sen, S., Sengupta Bandhyopadhyay, S., Das, C. SUMO E3 ligase CBX4 regulates hTERT-mediated transcription of CDH1 and promotes breast cancer cell migration and invasion. Biochem J. 477 (19) (2020) 3803-3818.
     

  2. Adhikary, S.*, Sanyal, S.*, Basu, M., Sengupta, I., Sen, S., Srivastava, D. K., Roy, S., Das, C. Selective Recognition of H3.1K36 dimethylation/H4K16 acetylation facilitates the regulation of ATRA-responsive genes by putative chromatin reader ZMND8. J Biol. Chem. 291 (2016) 2664- 2681. (*Equal Contribution as a first author).
     

  3. Sanyal, S., Das, C., Sengupta Bandhyopadhyay, S. DNA damage-independent interaction of CBX4 with SUMO1. IJCAES. 1(2) (2020) 7-11.
     

  4. Sau, A., Sanyal, S., Bera, K., Sen, S., Mitra, A. K., Pal, U., Chakraborty, P. K., Ganguly, S., Satpati, B., Das, C., Basu, S. DNA damage and Apoptosis Induction in Cancer Cells by Chemically Engineered Thiolated Riboflavin Gold Nanoassembly. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 10 (2018) 4582-4589.
     

  5. Sen, S., Sanyal, S., Srivastava, D. K., Dasgupta, D., Roy, S., Das, C. Transcription factor 19 interacts with histone 3 lysine 4 trimethylation and controls gluconeogenesis via the nucleosome- remodeling-deacetylase complex. J Biol. Chem. 292 (50) (2017) 20362-20378.
     

  6. Goswami, S., Sanyal, S., Chakraborty, P., Das, C., Sarkar, M.. Interaction of a common painkiller piroxicam and copper-piroxicam with chromatin causes structural alterations accompanied by modulation at the epigenomic/genomic level. BBA-Gen Subjects .1861 (2017) 2048-2049.
     

  7. Banerjee, A., Sanyal, S., Dutta, S., Chakraborty, P., Das, P. P., Jana, K., Vasudevan, M., Das, C., Dasgupta, D. The Plant alkaloid chelerythrine binds to chromatin alters H3K9Ac and modulates global gene expression. J Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 35(7) (2016) 1491-1499.
     

  8. Chakrabarti, R., Sanyal, S., Ghosh, A., Bhar, K., Das, C., Siddhanta, A. Phosphatidylinositol 4- phosphate 5-kinase 1α modulates ribosomal RNA gene silencing through its interaction with histone H3 lysine 9 trimethylation and heterochromatin protein HP1-α. J Biol. Chem. 290 (34) (2015) 20893-903.
     

  9. Banerjee, A., Sanyal, S., Majumder, P., Chakraborty, P., Jana, K., Das, C., Dasgupta, D. Recognition of chromatin by the plant alkaloid, elipticine as a dual binder. Biochem. Biophys. Res Commun. 462(2015) 352-357.
     

  10. Banerjee, A., Majumder, P., Sanyal, S., Singh, J., Jana, K., Das, C., Dasgupta, D. The DNA intercalators ethidium bromide and propidium iodide also bind to core histones. FEBS Open Bio 4 (2014) 251-259.
     

  11. Banerjee, A., Sanyal, S., Kulkarni, K.K., Jana, K., Roy, S., Das, C., Dasgupta, D. Anticancer drug mithramycin interacts with core histones: an additional mode of action of the DNA groove binder. FEBS Open Bio 4(2014) 987-995.

Dr. Isha Sengupta

Awards Received 

​​

  • Students Travel Award from American Society of Microbiology, 2018.

  • International Travel Award from Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB),

  • Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2018.

  • “Presidential Poster Award, 2016” for outstanding research presentation during 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of INASL Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL), 2016

  • “Foundation Day Award” for excellence in performance in the one-year Post M.Sc. Associateship Course (Bio-Physics) of the institute during 2012-2013.Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 2013

  • Scored 97.1 percentile (All-India Rank-308 out of 10737) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Life science, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India, 2012

  • Scholarship for securing above 80% in ISC by Suburban Educational Society,2006

  • Scholarship for securing above 80% in ICSE by Suburban Educational Society,2004

  • “Hindi Scholarship” for securing above 80% in Hindi (for non-Hindi speaking students) Government of West Bengal, 2004

 

Oral / Poster Presentations/ Workshops
 

  • Participated in 4th National postdoc symposium, NCBS, Online, 2021

  • Participated in International Conference on Microfluidics & Bio-MEMS, Webinar, 2020

  • Attended online Workshop on python Computing, IISER, Kolkata, 2020

  • Presented poster at SINP Safety and Health Awareness Program, 2018

  • Poster presentation at SINP International Cancer Meeting, Kolkata, 2018

  • Poster presentation at ASM Microbe 2018; Atlanta, USA.

  • Poster presentation at Indo-Japan Conference on Epigenetics and Human Diseases, Kolkata, 2018.

  • Poster presentation at 6th Meeting of the Asian Forum of Chromosome and Chromatin Biology (ACM), Hyderabad, 2017

  • Poster presentation at 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL), New Delhi, 2016 (Awarded Best Poster)

  • Poster presentation at 11th Asian Epigenomics Meeting, Bengaluru, 2016

  • Participated in 19th Transcription Assembly Meeting, Kolkata, 2016

  • Poster presentation at An Interdisciplinary Approach to Biological Sciences (IABS), Kolkata, 2015

  • Attended workshop on Multicolor Flow Cytometry, organized by BD and Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 2014.

  • Participated in Molecular Architecture, Dynamics and Assembly in Living System (MADALS) Symposium by Indian Biophysical Society, Kolkata, 2014.

​

​

Peer-reviewed publications

​

  1. Atypical PHD Domain of UBR7 Functions as an H2BK120Ub Ligase and Breast Cancer Tumor Suppressor. Adhikary S, Chakravarti D, Terranova C, Sengupta I*, Maitituoheti M, Dasgupta A, Srivastava D, Ma J, Raman A, Tarco E, Sahin A, Bassett R, Yang F Tapia C, Roy S, Rai K, Das C. Nature Commun. 2019 Mar 28; 10:1398. (* - Second Author)
     

  2. Host transcription factor Speckled 110kDa (Sp110), a nuclear body protein, is hijacked by Hepatitis B virus protein X for viral persistence. Sengupta I, Das D, Singh SP, Chakravarty R, Das C. J Biol Chem. 2017 Dec 15;292(50):20379-20393. 
     

  3. Dual histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits cancer cell invasion by positively regulating epithelial genes. Basu M, Sengupta I, Khan MW, Srivastava DK, Chakrabarti P, Roy S, Das C. Biochem J. 2017 May 19;474(11):1919-1934. 
     

  4. Anti-hepatitis B virus (HBV) response of imiquimod based toll like receptor 7 ligand in hbv-positive human hepatocelluar carcinoma cell line. Das D, Sengupta I, Sarkar N, Pal A, Saha D, Bandopadhyay M, Das C, Narayan J, Singh SP, Chakrabarti S, Chakravarty R. BMC Infect Dis. 2017 Jan 14;17(1):76. 
     

  5. Anti-viral role of toll like receptor 4 in hepatitis B virus infection: An in vitro study. Das D, Sarkar N, Sengupta I, Pal A, Saha D, Bandopadhyay M, Das C, Narayan J, Singh SP, Chakravarty R. World J Gastroenterol. 2016 Dec 21;22(47):10341-10352.
     

  6. Selective Recognition of H3.1K36 Dimethylation/H4K16 Acetylation Facilitates the Regulation of All-trans-retinoic Acid (ATRA)-responsive Genes by Putative Chromatin Reader ZMYND8. Adhikary S, Sanyal S, Basu M, Sengupta I, Sen S, Srivastava DK, Roy S, Das C.
    J Biol Chem. 2016 Feb 5;291(6):2664-81.
     

  7. Sengupta, I., Das, C., Das, D., Chakravarty, R., Adhikary, S., & Roy, S. (2016). HBx Hijacks Nuclear Body Protein Sp110 and Promotes Viral Pathogenesis. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, 6, S10.
     

  8. Chakravarty, R., Das, D., Sarkar, N., Pal, A., Saha, D., Sengupta, I., Das, C., Chakrabarti, S. (2014). Role of TLR7 Agonist in Hepatitis B Infection: An In Vitro Study. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, 4, S20.

Dr. Sabyasachi Sen

Awards Received 

​.  

Selected for short talk presentation at “Indo-Japan conference on Epigenetics and Human Disease 2018”, at Bose Institute, India

 

Oral / Poster Presentations/ Workshops
 

  • Poster presentation at “SINP International Cancer Meeting 2018”, at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, India.

  • Poster presentation at “Indo-Japan conference on Epigenetics and Human Disease 2018”, at Bose Institute, India.

  • Poster presentation at “6th Meeting of Asian Forum for Chromatin and Chromosome Biology, 2017”, at The Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India.

  • Poster presentation at “11th Asian Epigenomics Meeting, 2016”, at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India

​

Peer-reviewed publications

​

  1. Mukherjee, S., Adhikary, S., Gadad, S. S., Mondal, P., Sen, S., Choudhari, R., Singh, V., Adhikari, S., Mandal, P., & Chaudhuri, S. (2020). Suppression of poised oncogenes by ZMYND8 promotes chemo-sensitization. Cell Death & Disease, 11(12), 1–18.
     

  2. Sanyal, S., Mondal, P., Sen, S., Sengupta, S., & Das, C. (2020). SUMO E3 ligase CBX4 regulates hTERT- mediated transcription of CDH1 and promotes breast cancer cell migration and invasion. Biochemical Journal, 477(19), 3803–3818.
     

  3. Mukherjee, S., Sen, S., Adhikary, S., Sengupta, A., Mandal, P., Dasgupta, D., Chakrabarti, P., Roy, S., & Das, C. (2020). A novel role of tumor suppressor ZMYND8 in inducing differentiation of breast cancer cells through its dual-histone binding function.
    Journal of Biosciences, 45(1), 1–12. (*Equal contribution as first author)
     

  4. Mondal, P., Sen, S., Klein, B. J., Tiwary, N., Gadad, S. S., Kutateladze, T. G., Roy, S., & Das, C. (2019). TCF19 promotes cell proliferation through binding to the histone H3K4me3 mark. Biochemistry, 59(4), 389–399.
     

  5. Sau, A., Sanyal, S., Bera, K., Sen, S., Mitra, A. K., Pal, U., Chakraborty, P. K., Ganguly, S., Satpati, B., Das, C., & Basu, S. (2018). DNA Damage and Apoptosis Induction in Cancer Cells by Chemically Engineered Thiolated Riboflavin Gold Nanoassembly.
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(5), 4582–4589
     

  6. Sen, S., & Das, C. (2018). Managing the sugar factory: A new feather in the cap for nuclear factor Y. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293(20), 7905–7906. 
     

  7. Sen, S., Sanyal, S., Srivastava, D. K., Dasgupta, D., Roy, S., & Das, C. (2017). Transcription factor 19 interacts with histone 3 lysine 4 trimethylation and controls gluconeogenesis via the nucleosome-remodeling- deacetylase complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292(50), 20362–20378. (Selected as cover-page article in December 2017 J Biol. Chem issue)
     

  8. Adhikary, S., Sanyal, S., Basu, M., Sengupta, I., Sen, S., Srivastava, D. K., Roy, S., & Das, C. (2016). Selective Recognition of H3.1K36 Dimethylation/H4K16 Acetylation Facilitates the Regulation of All-trans-retinoic Acid (ATRA)-responsive Genes by Putative Chromatin Reader ZMYND8. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(6), 2664–2681.
     

  9. Sau, A., Sen, S., Bera, K., Pal, U., Satpati, B., Das, C., & Basu, S. (2018). Nuclear Uptake of Thiolated Riboflavin Gold Nanoassembly: DNA Damage and Apoptosis Induction in Cancer Cell. Biophysical Journal, 114(3), 360a
     

  10. Sen, S., & Das, C. (2018). Molecular Mechanism of Transcriptional Regulation by Chromatin Reader Transcription Factor 19 (TCF19) during Metabolic Stress. The FASEB Journal, 32, 617–648.

Dr. Shravanti Mukherjee

Awards Received 

​.  

Best Poster presentation at SINP International Cancer Meeting SINP, Kolkata, India. September 2018.

​

Peer-reviewed publications

​

  1. Mukherjee S*, Adhikary S*, Gadad SS, Mondal P, Sen S, Choudhari R, Singh V, Adhikari S, Mandal P, Chaudhuri S, Sengupta A, Lakshmanaswamy R, Chakrabarti P, Roy S, Das C. Suppression of poised oncogenes by ZMYND8 promotes chemo-sensitization.
    Cell Death Dis. 2020 Dec 15;11(12):1073. (*Contributed equally).
     

  2. Mukherjee, S.*, Sen, S.*, Adhikary, S., Sengupta, A., Mandal, P., Dasgupta, D., Chakrabarti, P., Roy, S., & Das, C. (2020). A novel role of tumor suppressor ZMYND8 in inducing differentiation of breast cancer cells through its dual-histone binding function.
    Journal of Biosciences, 45(1), 1–12. (* Contributed equally)
     

  3. Mukherjee S, Adhikary S, Roy S, Das C. Chapter: Noncoding RNAs Act as a Chromatin Scaffold of Histone Modification Complexes in Cancer. Book: Cancer and Noncoding RNAs. Elsevier. (Book Chapter)

Dr. Moitri Basu

Awards Received 

​.  

DST-INSPIRE Faculty, Bose Institute, 2015

​

Peer-reviewed publications

​

  1. Dual histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits cancer cell invasion by positively regulating epithelial genes. Basu M, Sengupta I, Khan MW, Srivastava DK, Chakrabarti P, Roy S, Das C. Biochem J. 2017 May 19;474(11):1919-1934.
     

  2. Basu M., Khan M.W., Chakrabarti P. and Das C.* 2017. Chromatin reader ZMYND8 is a key target of all trans retinoic acid-mediated inhibition of cancer cell proliferation. Biochim Biophys Acta- Gene Regul Mech. 1860(4):450-459. JIF: 5.550
     

  3. Selective Recognition of H3.1K36 Dimethylation/H4K16 Acetylation Facilitates the Regulation of All-trans-retinoic Acid (ATRA)-responsive Genes by Putative Chromatin Reader ZMYND8. Adhikary S, Sanyal S, Basu M, Sengupta I, Sen S, Srivastava DK, Roy S, Das C. J Biol Chem. 2016 Feb 5;291(6):2664-81.

bottom of page