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Suman Kumar Dhar

Suman Kumar Dhar

Suman Kumar Dhar
Suman Kumar Dhar
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Special Centre for Molecular Medicine
Room No
Lab 3A, GF
Off. Phone
011-26738774; 011-26742572
Email
skdhar@mail.jnu.ac.in, skdhar2002@yahoo.co.in
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sdhar/cv.pdf
Qualifications

B. Sc. (Chemistry Hons.), M.Sc. (Biochemistry), Ph. D. (Molecular Parasitology)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Bacterial/Parasite/Mammalian DNA replication and cell cycle regulation

Experience

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Awards & Honours

A.    Honors:    
Elected member, Guha Research Conference (2007)
Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (2011)
Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2015)
Elected Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (2015)
Elected fellow, Academy of Microbiological Sciences, AMI (2023)
Featured in National Television (Rajyasabha TV) for popularization of Science (2015)

 

B.    Fellowships:
Training grant in emerging infectious diseases, NIH, USA (1998)
Post-doctoral fellowship in breast cancer research, Dept. of Army, USA (2000-03)
International Senior Research Fellowship, Wellcome Trust, London (2005-10)
Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2008-13)
Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany (2008)
Wellcome Trust DBT senior Research fellowship (2010)
J C BOSE National Fellowship awarded by DST, Govt of India (2022)

 

C.    Awards:
National Biosciences award for career development awarded by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (2010)
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Sciences (2012)
President’s award for Excellence in Research as a member of Parasitology group in JNU (2015)
Selected for Platinum Jubilee Award lecture at 107th Indian Science Congress, 2020
M Shadaksharaswamy Endowment Lecture Award” awarded by Society of Biological Chemists (India) (2021)

International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Dana S, Prusty D, Dhayal D, Gupta MK, Dar A, Sen S, Mukhopadhyay P, Adak T, Dhar SK. (2014) The potent Anti-malarial activity of Acriflavine in vitro and in vivo. ACS Chem Biol. 9:2366-73. (IF 4.5).
  2. Sharma A, Kamran M, Verma V, Dasgupta S, Dhar SK. (2014) Intracellular Locations of Replication Proteins and the Origin of Replication during Chromosome Duplication in the Slowly Growing Human Pathogen Helicobacter pylori. J Bacteriol. 196:999-1011. Journal cover article. (IF 2.9).
  3. Verma V, Kumar A, Nitharwal RG, Alam J, Mukhopadhyay AK, Dasgupta S, Dhar SK.  (2016) Modulation of the enzymatic activities of replicative helicase (DnaB) by interaction with Hp0897: a possible mechanism for helicase loading in Helicobacter pylori. Nucleic Acids Res. 44:3288-303 (IF: 19.1).
  4. Agarwal M, Bhowmick K, Shah K, Krishnamachari A, Dhar SK. (2017) Identification and characterization of ARS-like sequences as putative origin(s) of replication in human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. FEBS J. 284:2674-2695. (IF: 5.5)
  5. Kamran M, Dubey P, Verma V, Dasgupta S, Dhar SK. (2018) Helicobacter pylori shows asymmetric and polar cell divisome assembly associated with DNA replisome. FEBS J. 285:2531-2547. (IF: 5.5)
  6. Sharma R, Sharma B, Gupta A, Dhar SK. (2018) Identification of a novel trafficking pathway exporting a replication protein, Orc2 to nucleus via classical secretory pathway in Plasmodium falciparum. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 1865:817-829. (IF: 4.1)
  7. Kumar A, Saha A, Verma VK, Dhar SK. (2019) Helicobacter pylori helicase loader protein Hp0897 shows unique functions of N- and C-terminal regions. Biochem J. 476:3261-3279. (IF: 3.8)
  8. Bhowmick K, Tehlan A, Sunita, Sudhakar R, Kaur I, Sijwali PS, Krishnamachari A, Dhar SK. (2020) Plasmodium falciparum GCN5 acetyltransferase follows a novel proteolytic processing pathway that is essential for its function. J Cell Sci. 133(1):jcs236489. (IF: 4.1).
  9. Tehlan A, Bhowmick K, Kumar A, Subbarao N, Dhar SK. (2022) The tetrameric structure of Plasmodium falciparum phosphoglycerate mutase is critical for optimal enzymatic activity. J Biol Chem. 298:101713. (IF: 5.1).
  10. Shekhar S, Verma S, Gupta MK, Roy SS, Kaur I, Krishnamachari A, Dhar SK. (2023) Genome-wide binding sites of Plasmodium falciparum mini chromosome maintenance protein MCM6 show new insights into parasite DNA replication. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 1870:119546. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2023.119546. (IF: 5.0)

 

Total Published Research Articles in National/International Journals: >80

Total Published Abstracts in National/International Journals: >20

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

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Patents (if any)
  1. US Patent Application Approved by US Patent Office on "GEMININ AND ORC3N INHIBIT REPLICATION OF HERPESVIRUSES, PAMILOMAVIRUSES AND POLYOMAVIRUSES" BY DUTTA, A AND DHAR S.K. No. B0801.70253US00 (2003)

  1. US Patent Application Approved by US Patent Office on “METHOD OF SCREENING ANTI-PLASMODIAL ACTIVITY OF ACRIFLAVIN AND ACRIFLAVIN AS AN ANTI-MALARIAL AGENT. By DHAR SK et al. 20150216853. (2016)

  1. Indian patent application filed “ACRIFLAVINE HYDROCHLORIDE AS A POTENT HELICOBACTER PYLORI GROWTH INHIBITOR” No 202011021298 (2020). By DHAR SK et al.

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.