Hereditary Genetics: Current Research

Supriya Prasanth G

Supriya Prasanth G
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Illinois, USA

Biography

M.Sc., University of Delhi (Genetics), New Delhi, India Ph.D., National Institute of Immunology (Molecular Genetics and Life Sciences), New Delhi, India Postdoctoral Fellow (Special Fellow, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-New York, USA

Research Interest

The long-term interest of her  lab is to understand how the initiation of DNA replication is coordinated with chromatin organization and cell cycle progression in mammalian cells. Initiation of DNA replication requires the assembly of a multi-protein pre-replicative
complex at the origins of replication. Binding of Origin Recognition Complex proteins to origins leads to the sequential binding of several other proteins that together establish the pre-RC. They  have identified a novel ORC-associated (ORCA/LRWD1) protein that is
required for stabilizing ORC binding to chromatin. Her  lab focuses on studying how Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) and ORC-associated (ORCA/LRWD1) regulate DNA replication and heterochromatin organization."