Yogesh Tengarai Ganesan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, KA, IN

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Greater New York City Area

• Investigate new therapies against kidney cancer and in Designing novel anti-cancer strategies using techniques like Cell culture maintenance, Western Blotting, Flow Cytometry, Apoptosis Assays, ELISA, viral.
• Performing routine cell culture, cell maintenance/ storage, cell based assays, protein assays and related tasks.
• Maintaining and scaling up cultures for mammalian cell lines.
• Harvesting cells and culture medium for various subsequent uses.
• Performing cell based assays for evaluating drug activity.
• Managing orders in the laboratory, maintained accounts, storage, cataloging and handling of the chemicals.

Greater New York City Area

Studied the interaction between apoptotic and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins in mammalian cell lines, which resulted in identifying the key steps in the interaction between the Bcl-2 family proteins.Cell tissue culture maintenance of FL5.12 cell lines.Developed an immuno-detection assay for BAX with flow cytometry to complement immuno-detection assay.

Studied the incorporation of unnatural amino acids in phosphotriesterase enzyme and investigated their activity and stability.Managed orders in the laboratory, storage, cataloging and handling of the chemicals that helped run the experiments in the laboratory smoothly and effectively.Maintained accounts and expenses of the laboratory that helped the.

Analyzed M. leprae using Bioinformatic Techniques.Identified two proteins ML0576 and ML1275, having a role in Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase activity and prolipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase activity respectively.

Identified and characterized LdPDEA1, a low-Km, cAMP-specific enzyme. Determined the role of cAMP and phosphodiesterase A in the differentiation processes and Polyamine biosynthesis of L. donovani

Site directed mutagenesis to introduce a Cysteine derivative in the protein NusG.

M.S., Masters Degree, Biotechnology, 3.9/4

Bachelor Of Technology, Industrial Biotechnology, 8.3/10

Indian Academy Of Sciences Fellowship for two consecutive years 2006 and 2007.

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