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Dr. Kausik Chakrabarti

Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University

Assistant Research Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh

Address:
Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

EMAIL: kausik@andrew.cmu.edu

OFFICE: Mellon Institute 725B
PHONE: (412) 268-3123

LAB: Mellon Institute 535 and 537
LAB Phone: (412) 268-4650

FAX: (412) 268-1061

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Chakrabarti K. ‘RNA’ (2015). Edited by Marcel Hommel, Peter G. Kremsner in Encyclopedia of Malaria, Springer Publication. pp 1-17 (ISBN: 978-1-4614-8757-9) 
(http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-8757-9_53-1) 

2. Sandhu R, Sanford S, Basu S, Park M, Pandya U, Li B and Chakrabarti K. (2013) A Trans- spliced Telomerase RNA dictates telomere synthesis in Trypanosoma brucei. 
Cell Research 23(4):537-51 (http://www.nature.com/cr/journal/v23/n4/full/cr201335a.html) 

3. Simoes-Barbosa A, Chakrabarti K, Pearson M, Benarroch D, Shuman S, Johnson PJ. (2012) Box H/ACA snoRNAs are preferred substrates for the trimethylguanosine synthase in the divergent unicellular eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis. RNA 18(9):1656-65 (http://rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/18/9/1656.long) 

4. Ares M Jr. and Chakrabarti K. (2008) Stuttering against marginotomy. Nature Structural Mol. Biol. 15(1):18-19 (http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v15/n1/full/nsmb0108-18.html ) 

5. Chakrabarti K, Pearson M, Grate L, Sterne-Weiler T, Deans J, Donohue J and Ares M Jr. (2007) Structural RNAs of known and unknown function identified in malaria parasites by comparative genomics and RNA analysis. RNA 13:1923-1939 (http://rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/13/11/1923.long)
6. Schiller MR, Chakrabarti K, King GF, Schiller NI, Eipper BA and Maciejewski M. (2006) Regulation of Rho GEF activity by intra-molecular and inter-molecular SH3 interactions. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281(27):18774-86. (http://www.jbc.org/content/281/27/18774.long) 

7. Chakrabarti K, Lin R, Schiller NI, Wang Y, Koubi D, Fan YX, Rudkin BB, Johnson GR, Schiller MR. (2005) Critical role for Kalirin in nerve growth factor signaling through TrkA. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(12):5106-5118. (http://mcb.asm.org/content/25/12/5106.full)
8. Chakrabarti K, Tse MT, Gray C, Chitnis CE, Craig A. (2004) Divergent binding sites on Intercellular Adhesion Molecule1 (ICAM-1) for variant Plasmodium falciparum isolates. Molecular Microbiology, 51:1039- 1049. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03895.x/full) 

9. Chattopadhyay R, Taneja T, Chakrabarti K, Pillai CR, Chitnis CE. (2004) Molecular analysis of the cytoadherence phenotype of a Plasmodium falciparum field isolate that binds intercellular adhesion molecule-1. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology (Elsevier publications). 133(2):255-265. 
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166685103003128) 

10. Sharma S, Chattopadhya R, Chakrabarti K, Pati S, Das BS, Chitnis CE. (2004) Epidemiology of malaria transmission and development of natural immunity in a malaria endemic village, San Dulakudar, in Orissa state, India. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) 71(4): 457-65 (http://www.ajtmh.org/content/71/4/457.long)