Department of Medicine
Contact Information:
University of Pittsburgh
Renal/Electrolyte Division
984 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 :
1. Androgen-regulated Formation and Degradation of Gap Junctions in Androgen-responsive Human Prostate Cancer Cells. Shalini Mitra, Lakshmanan Annamalai, Souvik Chakraborty, Kristen Johnson, Xiao-Hong Song, Surinder Batra, and Parmender P. Mehta. Mol. Biol. Cell (2006) 17: 5400-5416
2. Distinct Molecular Mechanisms Control the Assembly of Connexin43 and Connexin32 into Gap Junctions. Souvik Chakraborty, Shalini Mitra, and Parmender P. Mehta (Submitted to Mol. Biol. Cell)
3. Specific Motifs in the Carboxy-terminal Tail of Connexin32 Regulate its Gap Junction Size. Shalini Mitra, Souvik Chakraborty and Parmender P. Mehta (manuscript in preparation).
