IISER MOHALI

Since 2014 : Member, The RNA Society (Bethesda)

Since 2016 : Member, The Indian Biophysical Society

Since 2016 : Member, The Indian Society of Cell Biology

2004 - 2012 : Post-doctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried (near Munich), Germany.

1999 - 2004 : PhD, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.

1997 - 1999 : M.Sc. in Biotechnology, MS University of Baroda

1995 - 1997 : B.Sc. in Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of Mumbai (KJ Somaiya college)

Associate Dean Academics, 2023-ongoing

Wellcome/DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow, 2019-2024 

Appointed as head of a partner group of Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry at IISER Mohali, 2013

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry's Junior Research Award for outstanding research in biochemistry, 2011

PhD Graduate Program of Goethe University of Frankfurt, 2000-2002

Second prize in National Symposium Biotechcellence '99 at Anna University, 1999

UGC/CSIR NET-LS from the Government of India, 1998, 1999

Department of Biotechnology Fellowship for Master’s degree, 1997-1999

National scholarship during Master’s degree for all India rank in BSc, 1997-1999

1. Kiran Kumar Kolathur, Pallavi Sharma, Nagesh Y Kadam, Navneet Shahi, Ane Nishitha, Kavita Babu and Shravan Kumar Mishra. The ubiquitin‐like protein Hub1/UBL‐5 functions in pre‐mRNA splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans. FEBS Letters 597(3):448–457, 2022. URL, DOI

2. Anand K Bachhawat, Shashi Bhushan Pandit, Indranil Banerjee, Shashi Anand, Roman Sarkar, Arpita Mrigwani and Shravan Kumar Mishra. An inquiry‐based approach in large undergraduate labs: Learning, by doing it the “wrong” way. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 48(3):227–235, 2020. URL, DOI

3. S K Mishra and P Thakran. Intron specificity in pre-mRNA splicing. Current Genetics 64(4):777-784, 2018.

4. Sittinan Chanarat and Shravan Kumar Mishra. Emerging Roles of Ubiquitin-like Proteins in Pre-mRNA Splicing. Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2018. URL, DOI

5. 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):89–101, September 2017. URL, DOI

6. T Ammon, S K Mishra, K Kowalska, G M Popowicz, T A Holak and S Jentsch. The conserved ubiquitin-like protein Hub1 plays a critical role in splicing in human cells. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology 6(4):312-323, 2014.

7. S K Mishra, T Ammon, G M Popowicz, M Krajewski, R J Nagel, M Ares Jr., T A Holak and S Jentsch. Role of the ubiquitin-like protein Hub1 in splice-site usage and alternative splicing. Nature 474(7350):173-180, 2011.

8. S K Mishra, J Tripp, S Winkelhaus, B Tschiersch, K Theres, L Nover and K -D Scharf. In the complex family of heat stress transcription factors, HsfA1 has a unique role as master regulator of thermotolerance in tomato. Genes and Development 16(12):1555-1567, 2002.

9. L Nover, K Bharti, P Döring, S K Mishra, A Ganguli and K -D Scharf. Arabidopsis and the heat stress transcription factor world: How many heat stress transcription factors do we need?. Cell Stress and Chaperones 6(3):177-189, 2001.

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