Email

meena@bcm.edu

Positions

Postdoctoral Fellow - Mentor: Trey Westbrook, Ph.D.

Biochemistry-Westbrook Lab
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Instructor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Houston, Texas United States
A faculty position where I study the targetable vulnerabilities in oncogenic transcriptional programs focusing on RNA decay mechanisms in cancer

Addresses

BCM-Cullen Building (Lab)

Room: BCMC-304B
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

BSc from University of Rajasthan, Maharaja's College

07/2006 - Jaipur, Rajasthan India

Biology

MSc from Jawaharlal Nehru University

07/2008 - New Delhi, Delhi India

Biotechnology

PhD from Friedrich-Schiller University

04/2015 - Jena, Thuringia Germany

Molecular Biomedicine

Professional Statement

I received my Phd from Jena, Germany in Rudolph lab. I worked on aneuploidy, stem cell and cancer during my doctoral work. For my postdoctoral research I joined Westbrook lab and now working on discovering new weaknesses posed by oncogenes in human cancers that could be translated to improve current cancer therapies.

Websites

Selected Publications

• "Telomerase abrogates aneuploidy-induced telomere replication stress, senescence and cell depletion.." ; Pubmed PMID: 25820263
• "Telomerase stimulates ribosomal DNA transcription under hyperproliferative conditions.." ; Pubmed PMID: 25118183
• "The promoter of human telomerase reverse transcriptase is activated during liver regeneration and hepatocyte proliferation.." ; Pubmed PMID: 21447332
• "CEBP factors regulate telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter activity in whey acidic protein-T mice during mammary carcinogenesis.." ; Pubmed PMID: 23023397

Funding

Targeting RNA-decay mechanisms for treating MYC-driven breast cancers

Grant funding from Susan G. Komen