Dr. Shakil Ahmed
  Scientist -C
Molecular and Structural Biology Division
Central Drug Research Institute
Lucknow- 226001
U.P., India
 
Educational Qualifications M.Sc., Ph.D (Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh (Panjab University)
Telephone +91 522 2612411 extn- 4367/4282/4425
Fax +91 522 2623405
E- Mail sakil_ahmad@cdri.res.in
Date of Birth 03.05.1970
 
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
 
Aug. 2003-July 2006: Research Teaching Specialist, Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ RWJMS, Piscataway, NJ. USA
Nov. 2000-July 2003: Post doctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ RWJMS, Piscataway, NJ, USA
CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS
 
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Molecular Mechanism of Cell cycle Control and Gene Expression
Role of heterochromatin in Cell Cycle Control
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
Ahmed S and Singh J . RTPCR method for selective detection of silent gene transcripts in silencing mutants in homothallic strains of S. pombe.(2008) Biotechniques 44, 54-58
Bisht K, Arora S, Ahmed S, and Singh J. Role of heterochromatin in suppressing subtelomeric recombination in Fission Yeast.(2008) Yeast 25, 537-548
Ahmed, S. Dul, B. Qui, X. and Walworth, N. (2007) Msc1 Acts through Histone H2A.Z to Promote chromosome stability in Schizosacchromyces pombe. Genetics, 177: 1487-1497.
Ahmed, S. Palermo, C. Wan, S. and Walworth, N. (2004) A novel protein with similarities to Rb Binding Protein 2 compensate for the loss of Chk1 function and affects histone modification in fission yeast. Mol. Cell Biol. 24 (9): 3660-3669.
Ahmed, S. Saini, S. Arora, S. and Sing, J. (2001) Chromodomain Protein swi6-meadiated role of DNA polymerase ? in establishment of silencing in fission yeast. J. Biol. Chem. 276 (51): 47814-47821.
Ahmed, S. and Singh, J. (2001) An imprinting function of DNA polymerase ? in establishment of mating type silencing in Schizosacchromyces pombe. Current Science. 80 (10): 1337-1343.
Yadav S. and Ahmed S. DNA topoisomerase II mutant activates DNA damage checkpoint protein kinase Chk1 in fission yeast S. pombe. Communicated.