Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Medicine
Contact Information:
University of Pittsburgh, Renal/Electrolyte Division, 982 Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Telephone: 412-383-8892, Fax: 412-383-8955/8956, E-mail: shm70@pitt.edu
Education and Training:
Undergraduate:
B.S., Physiology, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 2000
Graduate
M.S., Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, 2003
Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular biology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, 2008
Publications (in chronological order):
Chakraborty S, Mitra S, Falk MM, Caplan SH, Wheelock MJ, Johnson KR, Mehta PP.E-cadherin differentially regulates the assembly of Connexin43 and Connexin32into gap junctions in human squamous carcinoma cells. J Biol Chem. 2010 Apr2;285(14):10761-76. Epub 2010 Jan 10. PubMed PMID: 20086013; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2856283.
Mitra S, Annamalai L, Chakraborty S, Johnson K, Song XH, Batra SK, Mehta PP. Androgen-regulated formation and degradation of gap junctions in androgen-responsive human prostate cancer cells. Mol Biol Cell. 2006 Dec;17(12):5400-16. Epub 2006 Oct 18. PubMed PMID: 17050739; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1679700.