Summary
Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah is a scientist and academic at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics[1] and the Co-chair of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering,[2] Indian Institute of Science. She additionally holds the position of Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry,[3] University of Bergen,[4] Norway. Her research involves the investigation of the mechanism of signal transduction via cyclic nucleotides, phosphodiesterases and novel cyclases in bacteria.[5] Most recently, she was awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges Explorations Grant[6] for her proposal entitled "A Small Animal Model of ETEC-Mediated Diarrhea".[7][8]
Prof. Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 6, 1957 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Scientist/Academic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Science |
| Thesis | (1987) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Biology |
| Sub-discipline | Biochemistry, Cell Biology |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Science |
| Main interests | Research on signal transduction mediated by cyclic nucleotides |
| Website | http://mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/index.htm |
Education edit
Visweswariah completed her Bachelor of Science in 1977 at Osmania University,[9] Hyderabad, majoring in Botany, Chemistry and Zoology. She then obtained a Master of Science degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1980. She proceeded to enrol at the PhD programme at the Department of Biochemistry,[10] Indian Institute of Science and was awarded her doctorate in 1987.[11]
Career edit
Visweswariah started her career as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Astra Research Centre, Bangalore in 1987-1988. After a year at the Astra Research Centre, she was promoted to a scientist position at the same organization, where she stayed on until 1993. In 1993, she was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics,[12] Indian Institute of Science, where she has held a position since, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and then to Professor in 2005.[13] She is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics,[12] Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Co-chair of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering,[2] Indian Institute of Science. Over the course of 23 years as faculty at the Indian Institute of Science, Visweswariah has mentored more than 25 PhD students.[14]
Membership in professional bodies and editorial boards edit
Visweswariah is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy[15] and the Indian Academy of Sciences: Third World Organisation for women in science.[16] She is a life member of the Society of Biological Chemists (India),[17][18] Indian Society of Cell Biology[19] (1995–present) and the Society of Research in Reproduction, India (1994–present). Additionally, she is a member of Guha Research Council, India (1997–present), the Alliance for Cell Signalling[20] (1997–present), the TB Structural Genomics Consortium, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology[21] (ASBMB), and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).[22]
She serves as the Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction, Tuberculosis,[23] Physiology Reports,[24] FEMS Microbiological Letters[25] and PeerJ and an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Cellular Endocrinology.[26]
Awards and fellowships edit
- Gold Medal in Botany, B.Sc. 1978.
- Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists, 1988.[27]
- Awarded a Short-Term Associateship by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India[28][better source needed] for a three-month visit to University of Missouri at Columbia, United States, 1998.
- Recipient of Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Short Term Fellowship (2002) to visit University of California, Berkeley in the laboratory of Prof. John Kuriyan.[29][30]
- Awarded the Central Drug Research Institute[31] Award for Excellence in Drug Research, 2005.[32]
- Recipient of YT Thathachari Award 2009.[33]
- Recipient of a Royal Society International Joint Project with Dr. Roger Buxton, National Institute for Medical Research, UK,[34] London, 2008-2011.
- Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship,[35] 2011-2012,[36] spent at the lab of Dr. Sabine Ehrt,[37] Weill Cornell Medical College,[38] New York City, United States.
- AstraZeneca Research Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, August 2012 – 2015.
- JC Bose Fellow,[39] 2013–present.
- Recipient of a Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges Explorations Grant,[6] 2014.[7]
- In 2018, she became the fellow of TWAS .[40][41]
Publications edit
Visweswariah has 95 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 5 book chapters to her credit, with a total citation count of over 1600 and an h-index of 25. The full list of publications from the Visweswariah lab can be found on PubMed[42][43] and ResearchGate.[44][45] These are some of the selected publications of Visweswariah.[46]
- Samanta et al (2017) Mycobacterial phenolic glycolipid synthesis is regulated by cAMP-dependent lysine acylation of FadD22 Microbiology 163: 373-382
- Sathyanarayana et al (2016) The Solvent-Exposed C-Terminus of the Cytolysin A Pore-Forming Toxin Directs Pore Formation and Channel Function in Membranes. Biochemistry 55: 5952-5961
- Müller. T., Rasool, I., et al (2015) Congenital secretory diarrhoea caused by activating germline mutations in GUCY2C. Gut doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2015-309441
- Basu et al (2014) Intestinal cell proliferation and senescence is regulated by receptor guanylyl cyclase C and p21 J. Biol. Chem. 289: 581-93
- Fiskerstand, T., Arshad et al (2012) Familial Diarrhea Syndrome caused by an activating GUCY2C mutation. N. Engl. J. Med. 366: 1586-95
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- ^ a b "A Small Animal Model of ETEC-Mediated Diarrhea - Grand Challenges". gcgh.grandchallenges.org.
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- ^ "Visweswariah, Sandhya". TWAS. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
- ^ IIT Kanpur [@iitkanpur] (February 20, 2018). "#IITK Alumni in News #IISC #TWAS #Fellowship Prof. Sandhya S. Visweswariah (MSc2/CHM/1980), Professor and Chair of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, IISc, Bangalore, has been elected as a fellow of 'The World Academy of Sciences' (TWAS) 2018" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via Twitter.
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