Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
📍 AB2 3F3
✉️ skmishra@iisermohali.ac.in
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Research Area
Molecular Cell Biology
Research Interests
Alternative Splicing mechanisms; Assembly of splicing factories through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS); Evolution and function of ubiquitin-like proteins; Pathways of protein degradation; Post-translational modifications in nutrient assimilation; Approaches: Molecular Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Genetics studies in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and cultured mammalian cells.
Since 2018 : Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Mohali, India
2012 - 2018 : Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Mohali, India
2004 - 2012 : Post-Doc, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich, Germany
1999 - 2004 : PhD, Biocentre, J.W. Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany
1997 - 1999 : M.Sc., Biotechnology, MS University of Baroda, India
1995 - 1997 : B.Sc., Microbiology and Biochemistry, KJ Somaiya college, University of Mumbai, , India
Associate Dean Academics, 2023-2025
Indo-French CEFIPRA joint project, 2025-ongoing
Wellcome/DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow, 2019-2024
Head of the Max Planck Partner Group at IISER Mohali, 2013-2018
Max Planck Junior Research award for outstanding research, 2011
PhD Graduate Program of Goethe University of Frankfurt, 2000-2002
Ankita Katoch Banyal, Poulami Choudhuri, Balashankar R Pillai, Amjadudheen Varikkapulakkal and Shravan Kumar Mishra. Mechanism of alternative splicing of yeast HEH1 through competing 5’splice sites. Nature Communications 17(1):930, 2025. Soumyodeep Das, Ayushi Raturi, Mohammad Khalid, Sadhan Das, Vidya Devi Negi and Shravan Kumar Mishra. Undergraduate students exploring microorganisms in fermented milk products using basic microscopes and smartphone cameras. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education 26(3):e00162–25, 2025. Amjadudheen Varikkapulakkal, Balashankar R Pillai and Shravan Kumar Mishra. Psr1 phosphatase regulates pre-m RNA splicing through spliceosomal B complex factor Snu66. The FEBS Journal 291(24):5455–5469, 2024. Anupa T Anil, Karan Choudhary, Rakesh Pandian, Praver Gupta, Poonam Thakran, Arashdeep Singh, Monika Sharma and Shravan Kumar Mishra. Splicing of branchpoint-distant exons is promoted by Cactin, Tls1 and the ubiquitin-fold- activated Sde2. Nucleic Acids Research 50(17):10000–10014, 2022. Poonam Thakran, Prashant Arun Pandit, Sumanjit Datta, Kiran Kumar Kolathur, Jeffrey A Pleiss and Shravan Kumar Mishra. Sde2 is an intron-specific pre-mRNA splicing regulator activated by ubiquitin-like processing. The EMBO journal 37(1):7, 2018. Sittinan Chanarat and Shravan Kumar Mishra. Emerging roles of ubiquitin-like proteins in pre-mRNA splicing. Trends in biochemical sciences 43(11):896–907, 2018.