Profile
Dr. Punit Prasad did his post-graduation in biotechnology from the prestigious Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, and completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Blaine Bartholomew at the Southern Illinois University, USA. During his doctoral research, Dr. Prasad worked on the chromatin remodeling machineries in budding yeast and published his observations in several peer-reviewed journals. Next, Dr. Prasad joined the reputed Karolinska Institute of Stockholm, Sweden, for post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Karl Ekwall. Dr. Prasad is working as Scientist-E at the Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, where he leads a team of graduate students to investigate the function of epigenetic factors in human myeloid development and leukemia. He has extended his scientific interest to understanding the role of microbiomes in normal and diseased states of individuals. He has published his research in international journals of repute. Dr. Prasad also receives several national and international awards and fellowships.
Current Focus Areas
My group addresses two major biological questions: 1. What epigenetic mechanisms regulate normal and abnormal myelopoiesis? 2. What is the role of microbiome in normal and diseased states of an individual?
Selected Publications
Basu, Jhinuk, Swati Madhulika, Krushna Chandra Murmu, Smrutishree Mohanty, Priyanka Samal, Asima Das, Soumendu Mahapatra, Subha Saha, Indranil Sinha and Punit Prasad. "Molecular and Epigenetic Alterations in Normal and Malignant Myelopoiesis in Human Leukemia 60 (Hl60) Promyelocytic Cell Line Model." Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 11, (2023).
Prasad, Punit, Soumendu Mahapatra, Rasmita Mishra, Krushna Chandra Murmu, Shifu Aggarwal, Manisha Sethi, Priyanka Mohapatra, Arup Ghosh, Rina Yadav and Hiren Dodia. "Long-Read 16s-Seq Reveals Nasopharynx Microbial Dysbiosis and Enrichment of Mycobacterium and Mycoplasma in Covid-19 Patients: A Potential Source of Co-Infection." Molecular Omics 18, no. 6 (2022): 490-505.
Saha, Subha, Priyanka Samal, Swati Madhulika, Krushna Chandra Murmu, Sohini Chakraborty, Jhinuk Basu, Subhabrata Barik, Kautilya Kumar Jena, Asima Das, Santosh Chauhan and Punit Prasad. "Smarcd1 Negatively Regulates Myeloid Differentiation of Leukemic Cells Via Epigenetic Mechanisms." Blood Advances 6, no. 10 (2022): 3106-3113.
Dong, Wenbo*, Punit Prasad*, Andreas Lennartsson and Karl Ekwall. "The Role of Non-Catalytic Domains of Hrp3 in Nucleosome Remodeling." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, no. 4 (2021): 1793
6. Saha, Subha, Krushna Chandra Murmu, Mayukh Biswas, Sohini Chakraborty, Jhinuk Basu, Swati Madhulika, Srinivasa Prasad Kolapalli, Santosh Chauhan, Amitava Sengupta and Punit Prasad. "Transcriptomic Analysis Identifies RNA Binding Proteins as Putative Regulators of Myelopoiesis and Leukemia." Frontiers in Oncology 9, (2019): 692.