Postdoctoral Associate
Arka is originally from Kolkata, India. After completing his MSc from the Department of Biotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, Arka obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, under the guidance of Prof Sandhya S. Visweswariah. He joined the laboratory of Prof Dirk Schnappinger as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2018 at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, WCM. His current research interests focus on developing directed regulatory switches in mycobacteria and use them to better understand their cellular physiology. In his free time, Arka enjoys cooking and reading about popular science and current affairs.
Publications:
Samanta, S., Biswas, P., Banerjee, A., Bose, A., Siddiqui, N., Nambi, S., Saini, D. K., and Visweswariah, S. S. (2020) A universal stress protein in Mycobacterium smegmatis sequesters the cAMP-regulated lysine acyltransferase and is essential for biofilm formation. J. Biol. Chem. 295(6):1500-1516.
Banerjee, A., and Visweswariah, S. S. (2016) Separation of free and bound cAMP in mycobacteria. Bio-protocol 6(14):e1879.
Banerjee, A., Adolph, R. S., Gopalakrishnapai, J., Kleinboelting, S., Emmerich, C., Steegborn, C., and Visweswariah, S. S. (2015) A universal stress protein (USP) in mycobacteria binds cAMP. J. Biol. Chem. 290(20):12731-43.
