Talk by Dr. Anirban Banerjee on his research work

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On to the next talk. And surprise, surprise - its the first talk under BioBytes by a professor (Hooray!). This talk will be given by Dr. Anirban Banerjee, from the BSBE department, who will be talking about his research work on Bacterial Pathogenesis, Host Pathogen interaction and immunity - but what the talk will cover, you will have to come and see for yourself.

Dr. Anirban Banerjee's work mainly focuses on bacterial pathogenesis (with a focus on Streptococcus), and how they subvert our immune responses to infect us - some of these mechanisms are truly imaginative. He works on the experimental aspects of it (in his Bio Safety Level 2 lab!). Rest of his biodata can be found at http://www.bio.iitb.ac.in/people/faculty/banerjee-a.

So, come on in and join in this trip down a mix of genetics, cell interactions and immunity. You don't want to miss it - so be there at LC 101 at 7 pm sharp.  

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Hope to see at the next talk! 

Best regards,

Shashwat Shukla & Archit Bhatnagar

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Sorry, forgot to put in the date.

The talk is tomorrow, on 13/10/2017 (Friday) at LC101 at 7pm

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Reminder for the talk today by Dr. Anirban Banerjee at 7pm in LC101.

Be there

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Thanks to Dr. Anirban Banerjee for such an interesting and exhilarating exposition of his current work. Predictably, the slides for the talk are currently not available, but worry not, they will appear here as soon as sir publishes the results - along with a link to the paper. Meanwhile, you could go through these, if you are so inclined

• Banerjee A, Kim B, Carmona E, Cutting A, Gurney M, Carlos C, Prasadarao N, Feuer R, Doran KS (2011) Bacterial Pili exploit integrin machinery to promote immune activation and efficient blood-brain barrier penetration. Nature Commun. 2: 464 (doi: 10.1038/ncomms1474).
  
• Banerjee A, van Sorge NM, Sheen TR, Uchiyama S, Mitchell TJ, Doran KS (2010) Activation of brain endothelium by pneumococcal neuraminidase NanA promotes bacterial internalization. Cell. Microbiol. 12: 1576 -1588.
  
• Lembo A, Gurney MA, Burnside K, Banerjee A, Reyes M, Connelly JE, Lin WJ, Jewell KA, Vo A, Renken CW, Doran KS, Rajagopal L (2010) Regulation of CovR expression in Group B streptococcus impacts blood-brain barrier penetration. Mol. Microbiol. 77: 431-443.
  
• Uchiyama S, Carlin AF, Khosravi A, Weiman S, Banerjee A, Quach D, Hightower G, Mitchell TJ, Doran KS, Nizet V (2009) The surface anchored NanA protein promotes pneumococcal brain endothelial cell invasion. J. Exp. Med. 206: 1845-1852.
  
• Zhang J*, Banerjee A*, Biswas I (2009) Transcription of clpP is enhanced by a unique tandem repeat sequence in Streptococcus mutans. J. Bacteriol. 191: 1056-1065 (*Equal contribution).
  
• Banerjee A, Biswas I (2008) A markerless multiple gene deletion system for Streptococcus mutans. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74: 2037-2042.
  

What are available however are the photographs of the talk. So go ahead, have a look at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2et84a8mp3-SVpwVlI5cVdtc2c. To those who came to the talk, thank you for coming and hope you enjoyed. For those who couldn't, well ... sorry :)