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Dr. Samarpita Lahiri (Samar), born in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1985, studied Microbiology at the University of Calcutta where she completed her Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in 2006. In the same year, she was admitted to the Master of Science degree in Microbiology under the University of Calcutta, which was accomplished in 2008 with a First Class classification. Her Master’s thesis work involved studies on radio-protective action of Moringa olefeira seed extract on gamma-irradiated mice, that had a nice medical application.
Following this, Samar joined as a Project Assistant with Oral Cancer Foundation,Project funded by the World Health Organization to work on Assessment of risk and putative biomarkers for oral pre-cancers/cancers among the chewers of Areca nut and non–Tobacco “pan–masala”. During this tenure, she did field work to gather data which formed a crucial structure of the project.
But the interest towards Biochemistry brought her back to ‘Molecular biochemistry and Nutrition Laboratory’ of the Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta as a Research Fellow where she gained useful experience. Further, she moved to Portugal to work as a Research Student in Plant Cell Wall Group at ITQB (in a project that was in collaboration with the Structural Genomics Lab of Macro-Molecular Crystallography Unit) for proteomic analysis of secretome of the lignocellulolytic fungus, Chrysonilia sitophila in 2011. This experience at ITQB, Portugal helped her to learn protein purification and related Molecular Biology and biochemical techniques. It was during this research experience that she started to develop interest in structural biology and became curious about solving protein structures. Likewise, in 2012 she started working in the Structural Genomics Laboratory in ITQB under the projects focused on crystallographic structure determination of ligand-bound Multi-Copper Oxidase (McoC) and structural studies of the Microbial Hemicellulases for saccharification, where she subjected herself with various protein crystallography techniques including some co-crystallization along with soaking and some protein modeling software.
It was at the end of this year, that Samar got selected as a PhD candidate in the Biochemistry and Biocrystallography group of Prof. Menico Rizzi in Novara, Italy, to develop her thesis based on biochemical, structural and interaction studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis alkylated-DNA Repair proteins, important for understanding the molecular bases of Tuberculosis. She gained valuable experience in Interaction and structural studies of macromolecular (Protein-DNA and Protein-Protein) complexes. Under the valuable guidance and supervision of Dr. Franca Rossi, Samar completed her PhD thesis entitled “Biochemical, structural and interaction studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis alkylated-DNA repair proteins” in 2016 from University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy. Her research capability and interests are also reflected through her publications in peer reviewed scientific journals such as Nucleic acid Research (NAR), Biochemical Journal (BJ), Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (JBIC), PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics (Wiley Periodicals, Inc.).
In 2017, Samar was engaged for a short stint as a Post-doctoral researcher in UCIBIO, REQUIMTE research centre in Universidade Nova de Lisboa under Dr. Sofia Pauleta focussed on Microbial Stress and Bioremediation (https://sites.google.com/site/spauletagroup/home) based on metalloproteins, specifically mechanistic studies of iron-sulfur proteins from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans.
It was later this year (2017), Samar moved to Poland to join Heddle Lab (Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, http://www.heddlelab.org/about.html) as a Post-doctoral researcher. Her research is mainly focused on structural, biochemical, interaction studies of DNA gyrases.
Currently, Samar is on maternity leave till March 2019 from when she is expected to get back to active research work.
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C.E. McVey,M.J. Ferreira, B. Correia,S. Lahiri,D. deSanctis,M.A. Carrondo, P.F. Lindley, I. de Sa-Nogueira,C.M. Soares,I. Bento
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C. E. McVey,M. J. Ferreira, B. Correia,S. Lahiri,D. de Sanctis,Maria Arménia Carrondo, P. F. Lindley,Isabel de Sá Nogueira,Cláudio Manuel Soares,Isabel Bento
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