Project: The structural and functional relationship of the human BRCA2 tumor suppressor protein

Education

2024 PhD, Molecular Genetics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram

2016 M.Sc, Zoology, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong

2014 B.Sc, Zoology, Utkal University, Odisha

2013 Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Application, Odisha

Research Interests

DNA Repair, Mitotic and Meiotic recombination, Cancer Biology and disease mechanism

Publications

Joshi, S.*, Dash, S.*, Vijayan, N. and Nishant, K.T. (2024) Irc20 modulates LOH frequency and distribution in S. cerevisiae. DNA Repair (Amst) 141:103727. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2024.103727 (* Equal contribution)

Dash S., Joshi S., Ajith, V.P., Shinohara A. and Nishant K.T (2023) Heterozygosity alters Msh5 binding to meiotic chromosomes in the baker’s yeast. Genetics doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyad214

Ajith, V.P., Dash, S., Saifudeen, A., Dutta, A. and Nishant, K.T. (2020) Loss of heterozygosity and base mutation rates vary among Saccharomyces cerevisiae hybrid strains. G3 (Bethesda) 10: 3309-3319.

Awards and Fellowships

Best poster presentation award at Frontier Symposium in Biology (FS-BIO2024) IISER Thiruvananthapuram

EMBO travel grant for EMBO Meiosis Workshop (2023) Pamhagen, Austria.

Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Fellowship (2018) Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Master’s Gold medal, (2016) North Eastern Hill University, Shillong

Professor M. K. Khare Memorial Prize (2016) for academic excellence in Masters, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong