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Malancha (Ma-lon-cho) Sarkar
Lecturer
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# here Cox Science Center, Dept. of Biology
1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33124 |
phone (305) 284-6566
fax (305) 284-3039
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| Education and Professional Experience |
- Ph.D. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, INDIA (1995).
- STA Fellow, National Institute of Health, Tokyo, JAPAN (1995-1996).
- Research Fellow, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Miami Children Hospital Research Institute, Miami, FL, USA (2002-2006).
- “INDIAN SCIENTIST” Award, IUBMB, 1994
- “Who is Who in America” 2007
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| Personal interests |
- Nature walks.
- Cooking multicultural cuisine.
- Develop ways to make learning Science simple, helping people understand that we all follow or use scientific experiments knowingly or unknowingly.
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| Research Interests |
- Cancer is a dreaded disease. But understanding the etiology of Cancer at molecular level will help us find a cure. I am interested in developing ways to detect it early and also find compounds that can fight cancer.
- Bacteria is a very simple organism, however, it does have complex regulation. It is endowed with the ability to adapt to rapidly changing environment. Most of the breakthroughs in Biology were worked out using Escherichia coli (E. coli), a common intestinal dweller. I am trying to understand how this organism adapts to changing environment.
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| Teaching Interests |
My teaching goal is to make Science enjoyable. I accomplish this by presenting scientific principles behind every day events. My major aim is to engage students by putting up the subject matter in simple and interesting ways and make them comfortable by showing that science is not only done in the laboratories but also in our backyard and kitchen. In short my teaching philosophy is to make science education attractive and fun for all ages
- BIL 106 Elementary Zoology: This course will help us to understand basic biological principles in relation to human and other animals.
- BIL 160 Evolution and Biodiversity: This is one of my favorite subjects to study and teach. Although theory of evolution is still debated, what is wrong in knowing various views on evolution and forming our own? Is it not thrilling to predict how we will look like after a millennium?
- BIL 382 Workshop leaders in Biology
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Selected Publications
- Sarkar M, Han T & Agarwal RP (2005), Arabinosylcytosine Mediated Reduction of Transcription Factor Sp1, and Down Regulation of Deoxycytidine Kinase in Arabinosylcytosine Resistant Human Lymphoid Cells, Biochem Pharmacol. 70(3): 426-32.
- Han T, Fernandez M, Sarkar M & Agarwal RP (2004). 2', 3'-Dideoxycytidine represses thymidine kinases 1 and 2 expression in T-lymphoid cells. Life Sci. 74(7): 835-842.
- Han T, Fernandez M, Sarkar M & Agarwal RP (2003). Arabinosylcytosine downregulates thymidine kinase and induces cross-resistance to zidovudine in T-lymphoid cells. Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun 307(3): 564-568.
- Subbarayan PR & Sarkar M (2004), A stop codon dependent internal Secondary Translation Initiation Region in Escherichia coli. RNA 10(9): 1359-1365.
- Subbarayan PR & Sarkar M (2004). Escherichia coli rpoS gene has an internal Secondary Translation Initiation Region. Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun 313(2): 294-299.
- Subbarayan PR & Sarkar M (2004). A comparative study of variation in codon 33 of the rpoS gene in Escherichia coli K12 stocks: implications for the synthesis of sigma(s). Mol Genet Genomics. 270(6): 533-538.
- Subbarayan PR, Sarkar M & Ardalan B (2002), Isolation of Genomic DNA from Human Whole Blood, Biotechniques 33(6): 1231-1234.
- Sarkar M & Vinayak M (1998), Comparison of tRNA conformation during different phases of reproduction, Mol. Biol. Rep. 25(2): 127-133.
- Sarkar M, Subbarayan PR & Vinayak M (1994), Transfer RNA analysis during the repro-ductive cycle of a freshwater teleost, Heteropneustes fossilis, Mol. Biol. Rep. 20(1): 9-14.
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