thushara thamban

Cell and molecular biologist.

University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

Post-Doctoral Scholar; Mentor: Dr. Aparna Lakkaraju June 2019 – Present

Molecular studies on Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) pathogenesis

• Role of complement activation in AMD pathogenesis

• Mechanistic studies on the role of serine proteases on complement activation

and AMD pathogenesis

• Employ microscopy-based qualitative and quantitative assays, live imaging, and

image analysis using Imaris.

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Hyderabad, India

Graduate Researcher; Advisor: Dr. Sanjeev Khosla July 2011- September 2019

Characterization of Neuronatin second intron knock out (NNΔI2) mice

• Established the role of the second intron of Neuronatin as the imprint control

region of Neuronatin in a mouse model.

• Epigenetic characterization of Neuronatin/Blcap loci by ChIP and Bisulfite

sequencing.

Indian Institute of Sciences Bangalore, India

Masters’ dissertation - Supervisor: Dr. Annapoorni Rangarajan Dec 2010- June 2011

Immunolocalization of stemness associated factors in mammospheres.

Amrita School of Biotechnology Kollam, India

Summer intern, Dr. Shyam Diwakar Project: Sakshat Virtual Lab Project. 2010

EDUCATION

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Hyderabad, India

Ph.D., Genetics (Epigenetics) 2019

Thesis: Characterization of Neuronatin second intron knock out (NNΔI2) mice

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Kollam, India

M.Sc. (Biotechnology) 2011

University of Calicut Calicut, India

B.Sc. (Biotechnology) 200