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Bindu A. Nair

Biography

Bindu A. Nair Working as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate I at Medical College of Wisconsin since October 2012. She completed her Ph.D. Life Sciences (Toxicology/ Reproduction) Department of Zoology & Bio Medical Technology School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. She has experience as Senior Research Fellow of Department of Biotechnology, Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad, India, Postdoctoral Fellow of Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI. Bindu A. Nair was honored Junior Research Fellowship offered by Govt. of Gujarat as a PhD Scholar and awarded as Young Scientist Award for Best Presentation in 2008. Bindu A. Nair's Publications • Bindu Nair and Margaret T.T. Wong-Riley (2016) Transcriptional Regulation of Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Coding Exon IX: ROLE OF NUCLEAR RESPIRATORY FACTOR 2. Journal of Biological Chemistry 291(43): 2258322593. • Bindu Nair, Kaid Johar, Anusha Priya, and Margaret T.T. Wong-Riley (2016) Specificity protein 4 (Sp4) transcriptionally regulates inhibitory GABAergic receptors in neurons. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research 1863 :1-9. • Anusha Priya, Kaid Johar, Bindu Nair, and Margaret T.T. Wong-Riley (2014) Nuclear respiratory factor 2 regulates the transcription of AMPA receptor subunit GluA2 (Gria2). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research 1843 (12): 3018–3028. • Xiu-ping Gao, Qiuli Liu, Bindu Nair and Margaret T. T. Wong-Riley (2014) Reduced levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor contribute to synaptic imbalance during the critical period of respiratory development in rats. European Journal of Neuroscience 40(1): 2183–2195.

Research Interest

Cell biology, Neurobiology and molecular biology, toxicology, Gene and molecular mechanisms, Cancer biology.