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Sushila Kumari

NCI at Frederick Scientific Library, Central Drug Research Institute

Research areas: Immunology and Microbiology · Virology · HIV Research and Treatment · HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment · Cellular transport and secretion

ORCID iD 0000-0003-0827-7517
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About

I was inspired by my parents and teachers in high school to pursue science, specifically biological sciences in my future. I used to talk to the teachers and friends about the wondrous discoveries in life sciences and how these discoveries are making human life better. During my postgraduation in microbiology, I worked in a biochemistry lab at a medical university in India on detection of HIV-1 and malaria, which really inspired me. This amazing experience helped me to develop my research interests in science, especially on microbial involvement in human diseases.
After postgraduation, I qualified Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-Junior Research Fellowship and joined as a Ph.D. student in Dr. Raj Kamal Tripathi's laboratory, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, India. During my Ph.D, I addressed long-standing questions on how HIV-1 Nef hijacks the intracellular machinery to promote viral immune evasion and persistence inside the host cells.

During my Ph.D. I gave an oral presentation in a conference in 2018, India where I met Dr. Shilpa Buch, Professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska (USA); she gave me an opportunity to join as a student scholar in her laboratory for six months to learn more about HIV-1 research. This was an amazing experience for me, which helped me to understand the molecular basis of Nef-mediated endocytosis of SERINC5, a host restriction factor, in infected cells.

To explore more experiences on the detailed mechanisms of host factors involving in HIV-1 research, I joined in Dr. Pathak’s lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow, one of the leading laboratories working on the understanding of HIV-1 uncoating, nuclear import and the interplay between viral proteins with host restriction factors such as APOBEC3 proteins.
With Science, I am also interested in games specially Table tennis, I made so many memories during PhD.

Employment

  • NCI at Frederick Scientific Library Postdoctoral Fellow
    2020 - Present

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