9^th Molecular Immunology & Immunogenetics Congress

Biography

Dipankar Nandi is a professor of Department of Biochemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India. He performed his doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA on characterization of epithelial tissue associated T cells and was awarded the PhD degree in 1991. He was introduced to the world of protein degradation during his postdoctoral research at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA while studying the composition and assembly of Interferon-γ-inducible proteasomes. He has published more than 60 scientific papers and he supervised 11 students for Ph.D., Dr. Nandi, is a reviewer for more than 10 international journals.

Research Interest

1) Studying novel microbial genes during stress, antibiotic resistance and infection 2) Understanding the host encoded immune responses