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Umashankar Singh

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  3. Umashankar Singh

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Umashankar Singh

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences and Engineering

  • BE: Acharya Narendra Dev College, Delhi University, 1997
  • MS: Hamdard University, New Delhi, 1999
  • PhD: Uppsala University, Sweden, 2006 (continued from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany)

Email: usingh -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Office: AB 6/409
VOIP: 2480


  • Selected Publications

    *=Corresponding author

    1. Patel D, Patel M, Datta S, Singh U*. CGGBP1 regulates CTCF occupancy at repeats. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2019 Sep 23;12(1):57.

    2. Patel D, Patel M, Westermark B, Singh U*. Dynamic bimodal changes in CpG and non-CpG methylation genome-wide upon CGGBP1 loss-of-function. BMC Res Notes. 2018 Jul 2;11(1):419.

    3. Datta S, Patel M, Patel D, Singh U*. Distinct DNA Sequence Preference for Histone Occupancy in Primary and Transformed Cells. Cancer Inform. 2019 Apr 19;18:1176935119843835.

    4. Singh U*, Westermark B. CGGBP1--an indispensable protein with ubiquitous cytoprotective functions. Ups J Med Sci. 2015;120(4):219-32.

    5. Agarwal P, Enroth S, Teichmann M, Jernberg Wiklund H, Smit A, Westermark B, Singh U*. Growth signals employ CGGBP1 to suppress transcription of Alu-SINEs. Cell Cycle. 2016 Jun 17;15(12):1558-71.

    6. Agarwal P, Collier P, Fritz MH, Benes V, Wiklund HJ, Westermark B, Singh U*. CGGBP1 mitigates cytosine methylation at repetitive DNA sequences. BMC Genomics. 2015 May 16;16(1):390.



    SCHOLAR PROFILE LINKS:

    https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/60741
    https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=SWRaGzoAAAAJ
    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8578-8201
    https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=9733701500

  • Work Experience

    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (May 2015 to present)
    • Researcher IGP, Uppsala University (Oct 2011 - May 2015)
    • Postdoctoral Fellow IGP, Uppsala University (Nov 2006 - Oct 2011)
    • Short Term Postdoctoral Work, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Jun 2006 - Nov 2006)
    • Ph.D. Studentship ZUB, Uppsala University, Uppsala (Jan 2003 - May 2006)
    • Ph.D. Studentship, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin (Sep 2002 - Dep 2002)
    • JRF, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), New Delhi (Sep 2000 - Sep 2002)
    • JRF, CFTRI (CSIR), Mysore (Jan 2000 - May 2000)

Research Interests

  • ● Cytoprotection
  • ● Cellular stress response and gene expression vis-à-vis retrotransposon evolution
  • ● Co-ordination between different cellular processes by multifunctional proteins

Complete List of Publications