Baskar Bakthavachalu

Employment

• Tata Institute for Genetics and Society Visiting Scientist
  2021 - 2022
• Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Assistant Professor
  2020 - Present
• Tata Institute for Genetics and Society at inStem Senior Scientist
  2018 - 2020
• National Centre for Biological Sciences NCBS Fellow
  2013 - 2018
• Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Postdoctoral Fellow
  2010 - 2013
• National Centre For Cell Science PhD
  2004 - 2010

Education

• Himachal Pradesh University MSc
  2002 - 2004

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (14)

• Aedes aegyptieggs use rewired polyamine and lipid metabolism to survive extreme desiccation
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.30.522323
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• The transcriptional response to oxidative stress is independent of stress-granule formation.
  Molecular biology of the cell 2022 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e21-08-0418
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• A C-terminal ataxin-2 disordered region promotes Huntingtin protein aggregation and neurodegeneration in Drosophila models of Huntington's disease.
  G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 2021 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab355
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• RNP-Granule Assembly via Ataxin-2 Disordered Domains Is Required for Long-Term Memory and Neurodegeneration.
  Neuron 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.04.032
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• The Long 3′UTR mRNA ofCaMKIIIs Essential for Translation-Dependent Plasticity of Spontaneous Release inDrosophila melanogaster
  The Journal of Neuroscience 2017 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1313-17.2017
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• The cytoplasmic capping complex assembles on adapter protein nck1 bound to the proline-rich C-terminus of Mammalian capping enzyme.
  PLoS biology 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001933
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• Translation from a DMD exon 5 IRES results in a functional dystrophin isoform that attenuates dystrophinopathy in humans and mice.
  Nature medicine 2014 DOI: 10.1038/nm.3628
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• Identification of cytoplasmic capping targets reveals a role for cap homeostasis in translation and mRNA stability.
  Cell reports 2012 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.07.011
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• Identification of the human PMR1 mRNA endonuclease as an alternatively processed product of the gene for peroxidasin-like protein.
  RNA (New York, N.Y.) 2012 DOI: 10.1261/rna.031369.111
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• Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipomannan blocks TNF biosynthesis by regulating macrophage MAPK-activated protein kinase 2 (MK2) and microRNA miR-125b.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112660108
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