Gaurav SINGH: self-portrait

22.12.2018

“I earned my Ph.D. in the collaboration of CSIR-National botanical research Institute and Banaras Hindu University, India, under the guidance of Dr. Pratibha Misra and late dear Prof. Surendra Singh. My Ph.D. research work was focused on the role of phytosterol glycosylation in plant defence. After my PhD, I have been awarded one year overseas postdoctoral fellowship funded by SERB-DST, Govt. of India and started to work with Prof. Richard Napier, School of Life Science, University of Warwick, U.K. During one year postdoctoral tenure, my research was to expressed and purify PINs, a membrane proteins from Sf9 cell lines for crystallization. In addition, I have developed an uptake/efflux assay method by using radiolabelled substrate into the PIN protein expressed Sf9 cells lines.

Currently, I have been recruited as a post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Marie-Edith Chaboute group since 1 December at IBMP. I am working in the Human Frontier Project to figure out the effect of mechanical cues on the nuclear envelope which leads to the change in chromatin remodelling.”