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Dr. Rekha Puria Rekha Puria Assistant Professor School of Biotechnology Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar, U.P. PIN-201308, India Phone -91-120-2344276 (O), Email: [email protected] EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION: PhD from Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India MSc (Biotechnology) Panjab University, Chandigarh SUMMARY OF TEACHING/ RESERCH EXPERIENCE Sept 2009: Assistant Professor, Gautam Buddha University 2008-2009: Lecturer at Amity School of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida 2006- 2007: Post doctoral fellow at Duke University Medical centre, NC state, USA RESEARCH AREA Cell Signalling PUBLICATIONS International 1. Zurita-Martinez SA*, Puria Rekha*, Pan X, Boeke JD, Cardenas ME. Efficient Tor signaling requires a functional Class C Vps protein complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2007 Aug; 176(4): 2139-50. (*- equal coauthors) 2. a,bPuria Rekha, Zurita-Martinez SA, Cardenas ME. Nuclear translocation of Gln3 in response to nutrient signals requires Golgi to endosome trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2008 May; 105: 7194-7199. a This study was featured on the cover and highlighted by a commentary in the same PNAS issue. Mitchell AP. A VAST staging area for regulatory proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2008 May; 105: 7111-7112 b It was also highlighted in the editor's choice section of Science Signaling: A.M. VanHook, Route to Specificity. Sci. Signal. 1, ec199 (2008). 3. Puria Rekha, Cardenas ME. Rapamycin bypasses vesicle-mediated signaling events to activate Gln3 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Communicative and integrative biology. July/aug/Sept 2008 4. Rohde JR, Bastidas R, Puria Rekha, Cardenas ME. Nutritional control via Tor signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2008, April; 11: 153-160. 5. Helena Morales-Johansson, Rekha Puria, David L. Brautigan, and Maria E. Cardenas. Human protein phospatase PP6 regulatory subunits provide Sit4-dependent and rapamycin sensitive Sap function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Plos One, 2009 Jul 21: 4(7), e6331. 6. Puria Rekha*, Mannan A*, Chopra R* and Ganesan, K. Critical role of RPI1 in stress tolerance of yeast during ethanolic fermentation. FEMs Yeast Res., 2009, Dec; 9(8):1161-71 (*- equal coauthors). International patent 1. Rekha Puria, Rohini Chopra, Ganesan K. (2009) “Methods for identifying genes that increase yeast stress tolerance, and use of these genes for yeast strain improvement. European patent No. EP1910536. AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS Qualified All India entrance level examination for doing Master of Sceince in Biotechnology at Panjab university through Combined Entrance Exam conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Received Department of Biotechnology (DBT) fellowship from August 1997 to July 1999. Awarded Research fellowship (UGC-CSIR-NET-1999) based on national level examination conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, for pursuing Ph.D in Life Sciences. Qualified national level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) CONFERENCES ATTENDED/WORK PRESENTATION Presented poster on "Study on genes involved in stress tolerance of yeast during ethanolic fermentation" in international conference “Yeast 2003” hosted by Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, INDIA. Attended conference on "50 years of DNA helix" conducted by Deptt. Of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, Delhi (2003). Zurita-Martinez, S.A., Puria, R., Pan, X., Boeke, J.D., and Cardenas, M.E. (2007). Efficient Tor signaling requires a functional Class C Vps protein complex. XXlll International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology. Melbourne, Australia Presented poster on "Vesicles trafficking proteins play role in nuclear translocation of transcription factor, Gln3, in response to nutrient signals in Saccharomyces cerevisiae” in international conference “DNA-Protein transaction- 12 th transcription meet” hosted by Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, INDIA (2009). .
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