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Niti Puri

Niti Puri

Niti Puri
Niti Puri
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Life Sciences
Off. Phone
011-26738742
Email
purin@mail.jnu.ac.in, niti_puri@hotmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://sites.google.com/view/npuri
Qualifications

B.Sc. (1987) Chemistry (Hons), University of Delhi, Delhi
M.Sc. (1989) Biotechnology, M.S. University, Vadodara, Gujarat
Ph.D (1996) Life Sciences (Immunology), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi  

Areas of Interest/Specialization

*Role and molecular mechanisms of Mast Cell effector responses in infectious and non-infectious diseases
*Interaction of nanoparticles with immune effector cells

Experience

* May, 2008 onwards: Assistant Professor in Immunology, in the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 
* October, 2005 till April, 2008: Visiting Fellow (Employee) in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul A. Roche, Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 
* April, 2005 till September, 2005: Visiting Fellow (Contract Employee) in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul A. Roche, Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 
* March, 2000 till March, 2005: Post Doctoral Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul A. Roche, Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 
* September, 1997 till Nov 1999: Project Associate in the project titled, "Cloning, Expression and Purification of Ovine Growth Hormone" funded by Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, with Dr. Satish M. Totey, Embryo Biotechnology Lab., National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, as the Principal Investigator. 
* December, 1995 till December, 1996: Research Associate in the Project titled, "Major Histocompatibility Complex I Antigen Expression Augmenting Factor (MEAF), A new immunomodulatory Cytokine: Purification, characterization and sequencing " funded by Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, with Prof. Rajiv K. Saxena, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, as the Principal Investigator. 

Awards & Honours

* March 2000 till March 2005: Fogarty Fellow in Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
* November 1994 till October 1995: Senior Research Fellow (ICMR) in School of Life Sciences, J.N.U., New Delhi. Title of project : "Modulation of certain membrane receptors crucial for immunological interactions, by mouse natural killer-resistance inducing factor (NK-RIF)"
* Life Membership of Indian Immunology Society
* Award for best poster presentation, 18th Annual meeting of the Indian Immunology Society, NII, New Delhi (October 1991)
* August 1991 till July 1994: Senior Research Fellow (JNU-UGC) in School of Life Sciences, J.N.U., New Delhi
* August 1989 to July 1991: Junior Research Fellow (JNU-UGC) in School of Life Sciences, J.N.U., New Delhi
* Passed with position in top 5% in CSIR-UGC-JRF Exam, 1988
* Students Fellowship sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, during M. Sc. (1987-1989)  

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Puri, N. and Roche, P. A. (2008) Mast cells possess distinct secretory granule subsets whose exocytosis is regulated by different SNARE isoforms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A. 105(7): 2580-2585. Impact Factor: 9.412 Citations 218
  2. Alam A., Sachar S., Puri N., Saxena R.K. (2013) Interactions of polydispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes with T cells resulting in downregulation of allogeneic CTL responses in vitro and in vivo. Nanotoxicology 7(8):1351-60. Impact Factor: 6.411 [Included as a Key Nanotechnology Article on Global Medical Discovery web-portal (globalmedicaldiscovery.com)] Citations 24
  3. Naqvi N., Ahuja K. , Selvapandiyan A., Dey R., Nakhasi H., and Puri, N.*   (October, 2017) Role of Mast Cells in clearance of Leishmania through extracellular trap formation. Scientific Reports 7: 13240 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-12753-1 Impact Factor:3.998. Citations:34
  4. Agarwal V., Naskar P., Agasti S., Khurana, G.K., Vishwakarma P., Lynn A.M., Roche P. A., and Puri N.* (October, 2019) The Cysteine-rich Domain of Synaptosomal-associated Protein of 23 kDa (SNAP-23) regulates its Membrane Association and Regulated Exocytosis from Mast Cells, Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 2019 Oct;1866(10):1618-1633. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2019.06.015. Epub 2019 Jun 29. Impact Factor: 4.739 Citations: 7 
  5. Paudel . S., Mehtani. D. and Puri. N.* (November 2019) Mast cells differentially regulate growth of lymphoid neoplasms by opposite modulation of histamine receptors Frontiers in Oncology doi: 10.3389/fonc.2019.01280  . Impact Factor: 6.244 Citations 3
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. Naqvi N., Srivastava R.. , Selvapandiyan A., and Puri, N.*   (October, 2020) Host Mast Cells in Leishmaniasis: Friend or Foe? Trends in Parasitology 36(12):952-956 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.09.010 , Impact Factor: 9.014 Citations 3
  2. Naqvi N., Srivastava R., Naskar P., and Puri, N.*   (May, 2021) Mast Cells modulate early responses to Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guerin by phagocytosis and formation of extracellular traps. Cellular Immunology 365(2021):104380  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cellimm.2021.104380 , Impact Factor: 4.078 Citations 1
  3. Mehtani D. and Puri N.* (September, 2021) Steering mast cells or their mediators as a prospective novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of hematological malignancies. Frontiers in Oncology https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.731323  , Impact Factor: 6.244
Patents (if any)
1. Priyanka, Puri, N., and Tyagi, R. K. Title of Invention: Generation and characterization of mouse hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies against human Pregnane and Xenobiotic Receptor (PXR) as a useful immunological tool in biological research and immunodiagnostics (Indian patent published on 09/11/2018)  (Application No.201711016149 A)

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.