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Name: MOULINATH ACHARYA
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Present Position: Assistant Professor
Highest educational Qualification: Ph.D.
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Curriculum Vitae :
Education
Year Degree University
2007 Ph.D Indian Institute of Chemical Biology/Jadavpur University
2001 M.Sc Banaras Hindu University
1999 B.Sc University of Calcutta
Professional Appointments
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Canada (March 2011-November 2011)
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta, Canada (May 2007-February 2011)
Professional Memberships
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Life member of Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG)
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Life member of Society of Biological Chemists (India)
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Life member of Calcutta Consortium of Human Genetics (CCHuGe)
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Member, Association of Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO)
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Member, Indian Eye Research Group India Chapter-ARVO
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Past member, American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
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Member, American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Member, International Society of Eye Research (ISER)
Awards/Honors :
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2011 |
Travel award from Team to Prevent Blindness at the University of Alberta to attend the Translational Glaucoma Meeting.
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2010 |
Travel award from the International Society of Eye Research (ISER) for oral presentation in Young Investigator category.
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2009 |
Travel award from the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
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2009 |
Travel award from the organizers of Asia-ARVO 2009.
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2002 |
Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) and awarded research fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.
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2001 |
94.2 percentile score in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India.
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Invited/Special lectures
Selected presentations:
September, 2012:
Calcutta Consortium of Human Genetics. Title of talk: Regulatory network of biomolecules involved in complex diseases of the visual system
November, 2011:
Neuron-Glia Interaction Unit, National Eye Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA. Title of talk: A complex regulatory network of transcription factors critical for ocular development and diseases.
July, 2010:
Biennial meeting of International Society for Eye Research (ISER), Montreal, Canada, Young Investigator presentation. Title of talk: PRKC Apoptosis WT1 Regulator (PAWR) protein interacts with transcription factors involved in development of the eye.
March, 2010:
Genetics Unit, Department of Biological Sciences at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Title of talk: Complex regulatory network of transcription factors and interacting proteins involved in Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome
May, 2009:
Annual meeting of Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. Title of talk: Human PAWR is a novel PITX2-interacting protein that regulates PITX2 transcriptional activity in ocular cells
Past Major Projects
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Identification and characterization novel interacting protein/s for PITX2 transcription factor.
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Understanding the regulatory network of FOXC1 and PITX2 transcription factors involved in Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome and glaucoma.
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Investigating the mechanism of interaction between prion protein (PrPc) and amyloid precursor protein (APP) from the perspective of their involvement in the pathways leading to neuronal cell death.
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