Partho Sarothi Ray
Associate Professor
Dept: Biological Sciences (DBS)
E-mail: psray [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
RNA-binding protein and miRNA-mediated regulation of gene expression in inflammation and cancer, computational and experimental biology of gene expression networks, drug designing for cellular imaging and photo-dynamic therapy, molecular evolution
Academic Background:
- PhD (Molecular virology), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2005
Positions:
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
- Post-doctoral fellow, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic (2004 - 2008)
Awards and Honors:
- 1.DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship from DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance (2010)
- 2.Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences from Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2010)
- 3.Symposium Fellowship Award from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (2009)
- The Elsa Albrecht Fellow Award from Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA (2008)
- The F. Merlin Bumpus Scientist of the Year Award from Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA (2007)
- Lower Award from Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA (2007)
- Tarazi Award from Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA (2007)
- Elsa Albrecht Fellow Award (Second position) from Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA (2007)
- Sreenivasaya Medal from department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2005)
Selected Publications:
- Poria, Dipak Kumar; Guha, Abhishek; Nandi, Ipsita and Ray, Partho Sarothi. 2015."RNA-binding protein HuR sequesters microRNA-21 to prevent translation repression of proinflammatory tumor suppressor gene programmed cell death 4." Oncogene, 1, 1
- Mandal, Soumik; Poria, Dipak Kumar; Ghosh, Ritabrata; Ray, Partho Sarothi and Gupta, Parna. 2014."Development of a cyclometalated iridium complex with specific intramolecular hydrogen-bonding that acts as a fluorescent marker for the endoplasmic reticulum and causes photoinduced cell death." Dalton Transactions, 43, 17463
- Ray, Partho Sarothi and Fox, Paul L. 2014."Origin and Evolution of Glutamyl-prolyl tRNA synthetase WHEP domains reveal evolutionary relationships within holozoa." PLoS One, 9, 1-9
- Ray, Partho Sarothi; Jia, Jie; Yao, Peng; Majumder, Mithu; Hatzoglou, Maria and Fox, Paul L. 2009."A stress-responsive RNA switch regulates VEGF expression." Nature, 457, 915-919
- Ray, Partho Sarothi and Fox, Paul L. 2007."A post-transcriptional pathway represses monocyte VEGF-A expression and angiogenic activity." EMBO Journal, 26, 3360-3372
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