Umashankar Singh
Department : Biological Engineering
Research Interests
● Cytoprotection
● Cellular stress response and gene expression vis-à-vis retrotransposon evolution
● Co-ordination between different cellular processes by multifunctional proteins
Professional Summary
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)
Publications
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.
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