Ritu Chawla, PhD

Graduate School:

PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2004)

Fellowships:

The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (2005-2006).

University of Colorado, at Denver (2006-2009).

Languages: English

Training experience:

1.LFP measurements for the zebrafish habenula at LKC school of Medicine, Singapore. (2020-2021).

2.Whole cell patch clamp of mitoplast in cultured cell lines studying mechanism of Calcium uptake by Mitochondrial Calcium uniporter channel at National University of Singapore. (2017-2020).

3.Whole-cell patch clamp recordings, using manual and automated patch clamp techniques on T lymphocytes stable cell lines at LKC School of Medicine, Singapore (Feb 2016 –September 2016).

4.Single channel recordings to study gating mechanism of the acetylcholine receptor, at The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (2005-2006).

5.Whole-cell patch clamp recordings done in the vestibular hair cells to probe ionic mechanism underlying vestibular sensory system (2006-2009).

6.Effect of scorpion toxins from Buthus tamulus on the Kv types of potassium channels, at the Department of Applied Physiology, University of Ulm, Germany (May2004).

7.Scorpion toxins peptides and voltage-gated potassium channel interaction on xenopus oocytes system at the National Centre of Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India (2003).

8.Study of the lipid profile in Edible Fats & Oils, as well as in Cyanobacterium Phormidium uncinatum by using chromatographic techniques, at University of Jabalpur, India (1998).

Peer Reviewed Publications:

1.Dhawan R, Joseph S, Sethi A, Lala A.K. (2002) Purification and characterization of a short insect toxin from the venom of the scorpion Buthus tamulus. FEBS Lett. Sep 25; 528(1-3):261-6.

2.Dhawan R, Varshney A, Mathew M.K, Lala A.K. (2003) BTK-2, a new inhibitor of the Kv1.1 potassium channel purified from Indian scorpion Buthus tamulus. FEBS Lett. Mar 27; 539(1-3):7-13.

3.Sudarslal S, Majumdar S, Ramasamy P, Dhawan R, Pal P.P, Ramaswami M, Lala A.K, Sikdar S.K, Sarma S.P, Krishnan K.S, Balaram P. (2003) Sodium channel modulating activity in a delta-conotoxin from an Indian marine snail. FEBS Lett. Oct 9; 553(1-2):209-12.

4.Dhawan, R., Mann, S.E., Meredith, F.L. and Rennie, K. J. (2010) K+ currents in isolated vestibular afferent calyx terminals. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 11:463-476, 2010.

5.Natarajan, V., Chawla, R., Mah, T., Vivekanandan, R., Tan, S. Y., Sato, P. Y., & Mallilankaraman, K. (2020). Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Age-Related Metabolic Disorders. Proteimics, 20(5-6).

6.Natarajan, V., Mah, T., Peishi, C., Tan, S. Y., Chawla, R., Arumugam, T. V., Ramasamy, A., & Mallilankaraman, K. (2020). Oxygen Glucose Deprivation Induced Prosurvival Autophagy Is Insufficient to Rescue Endothelial Function. Frontiers in physiology, 11, 533683.

7.Wang, L., Cho, Y. L., Tang, Y., Wang, J., Park, J. E., Wu, Y., Wang, C., Tong, Y., Chawla, R., et al. (2018). PTEN-L is a novel protein phosphatase for ubiquitin dephosphorylation to inhibit PINK1-Parkin-mediated mitophagy. Cell research, 28(8), 787–802.

Honors/Merits/Awards:

Merit awarded in S.S.L.C.

Merit awarded in B.Sc. second year.

Cleared Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) examination in 1999, with 94.8 percentile in life science.

Selected for CSIR scholarship as a Senior Research Fellow in 2003.

Referees:

Dr. George Kanianthara Chandy

Professor of Molecular Physiology and Scientific Director of Infection and Immunity Research Programme.

LKC Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Email: adzp4m@r.postjobfree.com

Dr. Stephan Grissmer,

Professor, Institute of Applied Physiology,

University of Ulm,

89081 Ulm/Germany.

Email: adzp4m@r.postjobfree.com

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