Dr. Pratiti Ghosh

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Department of Physiology
West Bengal State University,
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata- 700 126
West Bengal, INDIA
Mobile – 9830159412
E-mail: pratiti_ghosh@yahoo.co.in

Educational Qualifications:

1. Postdoctoral Research experience on ‘Retrotransposition in Yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe)’ at The National Institutes of Health, USA.
2. Postdoctoral Research experience on ‘P-glycoprotein and Multidrug Resistance’ at Uniformed Services University of Health Services.
3. Ph.D. on ‘Citric Acid Fermentation by Aspergillus niger’ from University of Calcutta in 2002.

Publications:

1. Ghosh P. “Evolving of ‘Evolution’ – It’s Implication” Science and Culture, July, 2010.
2. Ghosh, P., Moitra, K., and Dey, S. Allosteric Modulation of Human P-glycoprotein Involves Conformational Changes Mimicking Catalytic Transition Intermediates. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2006. 450:1; 100-112.
3. Maki, N., Moitra, K., Silver, C., Ghosh, P., Chattopadhyay, A. K., and Dey, S. Modulator-Induced Interference in Functional Cross Talk Between the Substrate and the ATP sites of Human P-glycoprotein. Biochemistry. 2006. 45:8; 2739-2751.
4. Maki, N., Moitra, K., Ghosh, P., and Dey, S. Allosteric Modulation Bypasses Requirement for ATP Hydrolysis in Regenerating Low Affinity Transition State Conformation of Human P-glycoprotein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2006. 281:6; 10769 – 10777.
5. Kelly F, Myung J, Das P and Levin H. The Integration of Tf1, an LTR-Retrotransposon, occurs specifically at pol II promoters and has a pattern of periodicity. Presented at ‘Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’, New York at 2004 meeting on Retroviruses.
6. Ghosh P and Banik A. K. Effect of chemical nutrients on aconitase activity during citric acid fermentation by a mutant strain of Aspergillus niger. Acta Microbiologica Polonica. 1998, 47:3; 253-260.

“Experimental studies on the Interaction of Carbamate, Stress & Organophosphate”; DRDE, DRDO, Govt. of India (2010-2012).