Arindam Basu
Penn State University, USA
Biography
Arindam Basu has completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in India and continued his Post-doctoral research on gene expression and regulation in the laboratory of Dr. Michael L. Atchison at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Penn State University, Brandywine campus where he teaches undergraduate courses. His primary research interests have been in the area of epigenetic regulation by Polycomb group of proteins and long-range DNA interactions. He has published several papers demonstrating the role of Polycomb proteins in chromatin organization.
Abstract
Abstract : YY1 controls long range DNA interactions of Ig heavy chain locus during class-switch recombination