Faculty

Faculty Details


Faculty Details

  • Name: Dr. Sunanda Bhattacharyya
  • Mail: sbtsluohyd.ernet.in
  • Contact: 04023134587
  • Area Of Research:Dr. Bhattacharyya works on functional characterization of topoisomerases in malaria parasite and development of anti-malaria compounds targeted to topoisomerases. She is also interested in understanding the proteostasis process within the nucleus with special emphasis on identifying the role of heat shock protein 90 and its clients in various DNA- associated pathways.
Dr. Bhattacharyya obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata in 2001. She then went on for her post-doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins University and at Tulane University. In 2009, She joined Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor.
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Students/Projects Trainees

Name Joined As Mail Contact
Shephali Bansod Integrated MSc-PhD --- ---
Nupur Fangaria PhD --- ---
Priyanka Singh PhD --- ---
Khushboo Rani PhD --- ---
Jessica Laloo MSc project student --- ---

Former Students/Projects Trainees

Name Joined As Working
SureshKumar Chalapareddy PhD Post doctoral fellow at NIH, Bethesda, USA
Nidhi Khurana PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, MI, USA
Tanvi Suhane PhD Post doctoral fellow at CDFD
Swati Chakraborti Post Doctoral Fellow
Shyamasree Laskar PhD
22 Pratap Vydyam, Dibyendu Dutta, Niranjan Sutram, Sunanda Bhattacharyya and Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyya (2019) , A Small molecule inhibitor of DNA recombinase Rad51 from Plasmodium falciparum synergizes with the anti-malarial drugs artemisinin and chloroquine , Journal of Biological Chemistry, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,294,20,8171-8183.
21 Tanvi Suhane, Vijayalakshmi Prasad, Nupur Fangaria, Achutsankar S. Nair, Wahida Tabassum, Poorvaja Muley, Mrinal K. Bhattacharyya and Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2019) , Glu-108 in ScRad51 is critical for DNA damage induced nuclear function , mSphere, American Society for Microbiology,,,mSphere.00082-19.
20 Nidhi Khurana, Sayan Bakshi, Wahida Tabassum, Mrinal K. Bhattacharyya and Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2018) , Hsp90 is essential for Chl1 mediated chromosome segregation and sister chromatid cohesion , mSphere, American Society for Microbiology,,,doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00225-18.
19 Payal Jha, Shyamasree Laskar, Swati Dubey, Mrinal K Bhattacharyya and Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2017) , Plasmodium Hsp40 and human Hsp70: A potential cochaperone chaperone complex , Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Elsevier,214,10-13,.
18 Nidhi Khurana, Shyamasree Laskar, Mrinal K. Bhattacharyya and Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2016) , Hsp90 induces increased genomic instability towards DNA damaging agents by tuning down RAD53 transcription , Molecular Biology of the Cell, American Society for Cell Biology,,,10.1091/mbc.E15-12-0867.
17 Sureshkumar Chalapareddy, Swati Chakrabarti, Mrinal K. Bhattacharyya, and Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2015) , Radicicol mediated inhibition of Topoisomerase VIB-VIA activity of human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum , mSphere, American Society for Microbiology,,,10.1128/mSphere.0002515.
16 Nidhi Khurana, Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2015) , Hsp90, the concertmaster: tuning transcription , Frontiers in Oncology, ,,,doi: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00100.
15 Badugu SB, Nabi SA, Vaidyam P, Laskar S, Bhattacharyya S, Bhattacharyya MK (2015) , Identification of Plasmodium falciparum DNA Repair Protein Mre11 with an Evolutionarily Conserved Nuclease Function , PLoS One, ,,,10.1371/journal.pone.0125358.
14 Shyamasree Laskar, Sheeba K, Mrinal K. Bhattacharyya, Achuthsankar S. Nair, Pawan Dhar, Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2014) , Heat stress induced Cup9 dependent transcriptional regulation of Sir2 , Molecular and Cellular Biology, American Society for Microbiology,,,10.1128/MCB.01046-14.
13 Tanvi Suhane, Shyamasree Laskar, Siddheshwari Advani, Nabamita Roy, Shalu Varunan, Dibyendu Bhattacharyya, Sunanda Bhattacharyya, Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyya (2014) , Both charged linker region and ATPase domain of Hsp90 are essential for Rad51 dependent DNA repair , Eukaryotic Cell, American Society for Microbiology,,,10.1128/EC.00159-14.
12 Suresh Chalapareddy, Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyya, Seema Mishra, Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2014) , Radicicol confers mid schizont arrest by inhibiting mitochondrial replication in Plasmodium falciparum , Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy , American Society for Microbiology,,,AAC.02519-13, 2014.
11 Nabamita Roy, Sunanda Bhattacharyya, Swati Chakrabarty, Shyamasree Laskar, Somepalli Mastan Babu and Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyya (2014) , Dominant negative mutant of Plasmodium Rad51 causes reduced parasite burden in host by abrogating DNA double strand break repair , Molecular Microbiology, ,94,,353-366.
10 Shalu M. Varunan, Jaishree Tripathi, Sunanda Bhattacharyya, Tanvi Suhane, Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyy (2013) , Plasmodium falciparum origin recognition complex subunit 1 (PfOrc1)functionally complements Δsir3 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology , ,119,,28-35.
9 Sita Swati Achanta, Shalu M. Varunan, Sunanda Bhattacharyya and Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyya (2012) , Characterization of Rad51 from apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii: an implication for inefficient gene targeting , PLoS One, ,,,7(7): e41925.
8 Abhishek Mazumder, Sumita Bandyopadhyay, Dale Lewis, Amlanjyoti Dhar, Sunanda Deb, Sucharita Dey, Pinak Chakrabarti, Sankar Adhya and Siddhartha Roy (2012) , A Genetic Network that Balances Two Outcomes Utilizes Asymmetric Recognition of Operator Sites , Biophysical Journal, ,102,,1580-1589.
7 Shyamasree Laskar, M. K. Bhattacharyya, Rama Shankar, Sunanda Bhattacharyya (2011) , Hsp90 controls Sir2 mediated gene silencing , PLoS One, ,,,6(8): e23406.
6 Charles A. Miller III, Xiaobing Tan, Mark Wilson, Sunanda Bhattacharyya, Sara Ludwig (2010) , Single plasmids expressing human steroid hormone receptors and a reporter gene for use in yeast signaling assays , Plasmids, ,63,,73-78.
5 M. K. Bhattacharyya, Sunanda Bhattacharyya (nee Deb), Jayabalasingham, B. and Kumar, N. (2005) , Characterization of kinetics of DNA-strand exchange and ATP hydrolysis activities of Plasmodium falciparum recombinase PfRad51 , Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, ,139,,33-39.
4 Sumita Bandyopadhyay, Sunanda Deb, Sudeep Bose and Siddhartha Roy (2002) , Half-of-the sites reactivity of F235C lambda-repressor: implications for the structure of the whole repressor , Protein Engineering, ,15,,393-401.
3 Nandan K. Jana, Sunanda Deb, Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya, Nitai C. Mandal and Siddhartha Roy (2001) , Energetics of cooperative interaction studied using a mutant λ-repressor , Protein Engineering, ,13,,629-33.
2 Sunanda Deb, Sumita Bandyopadhyay and Siddhartha Roy (2000) , DNA sequence dependent and independent conformational changes in multipartite operator recognition by λ-repressor , Biochemistry, ,39,,3377-3383.
1 Sunanda Deb, Sumita Bandyopadhyay and Siddhartha Roy (1998) , Spectroscopic study of Y210C lambda repressor: implications for cooperative interaction , Protein Engineering, ,11,,481-87.
Title Year Duration Amount(In Lakhs) PI/I
Role of Topoisomerase VI in the biology of malaria parasite 2018 3 72.28 Sunanda Bhattacharyya (PI)
Role of Hsp90 in Rad51 mediated DNA repair 2016 3 15.5 Sunanda Bhattacharyya (PI)
Understanding the role of homologous recombination in genomic rearrangements leading to antigenic diversification in malaria parasites 2016 3 49.3 Sunanda Bhattacharyya (Co-PI)
Role of proteins and protein aggregates in cellular physiology and disease progression 2016 1 3 Sunanda Bhattacharyya (Co-PI)
Structure function relationship of Hsp90 in yeast telomere 2014 3 40 Sunanda Bhattacharyya (PI)
Cloning and characterization of Plasmodium falciparum Topoisomerase VI 2012 3 30 Sunanda Bhattacharyya (PI)
To study the role of Hsp90 in DNA double strand break repair pathway 2012 1 3 Sunanda Bhattacharyya (PI)