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Pradeep K. Patnaik, Ph.D. |
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Phone: 973-720-3454 |
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Pradeep Patnaik (Associate Professor) received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Microbiology from St. Xavier's College, Bombay (India), a Master's in Cell and Molecular Biology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and a Ph.D in Genetics from Indiana University at Bloomington IN. He carried out postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. George Cross at the Rockefeller University in New York and had a faculty (career-track) appointment at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London, England prior to joining the department of Biology here. Starting as a postdoctoral associate and then in his own laboratory in England and here, his research has focused on the molecular genetics of parasitic protozoa such as those that cause sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) and malaria. His current work aims to lay the groundwork for an analysis of nuclear DNA replication in Trypanosoma brucei and to begin an exploration of its relationship (if any) to the transcriptional /epigenetic control of gene expression in this organism. This research is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Six of the 7 students who have worked in his laboratory over the past 4 years have won major intra and extra-mural awards including competitive research-oriented scholarships administered by state and national agencies (NJ Commission on Higher Education; NIH).
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