User:Sunny Sharma

Contact Info

• Sunny Sharma
• Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Max-von-Laue Strasse-9, Campus Riedberg, Goethe University
• Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
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I am graduate student in Entian´s Lab at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.

Education

• Graduate student at Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [1]
• 2007, MS (Molecular Biology & Biochemistry), Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India [2]
• 2005, BS, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India [3]

Awards

DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst) PhD scholarship (2010 - 2013) [4]

CEF (Excellence Cluster-Frankfurt am Main) PhD fellowship (2009 - 2010) [5]

ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) Junior Research Fellowship (2009 - 2010) [6]

Research interests

1. Ribosome Biogenesis
2. RNA modifications
3. Immunology
4. Gerontology

Publications

1) Yeast Nop2 and Rcm1 methylate C2870 and C2278 of the 25S rRNA, respectively.[7]

2) Identification of a novel methyltransferase, Bmt2, responsible for the N-1-methyl-adenosine base modification of 25S rRNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.[8]

3) Yeast Rrp8p, a novel methyltransferase responsible for m1A 645 base modification of 25S rRNA.[9]

4) Association of P2X7 receptor +1513 (A-->C) polymorphism with tuberculosis in a Punjabi population.[10]

Conferences/ Workshops

1. RNA club, 16th October 2013 [11]
2. Plenary talk at Yeast Meeting, Frankfurt 2013 [12]
3. Poster presentation at18th Annual RNA meeting of the RNA society, Davos, Switzerland [13]
4. RNA club, 26th September 2012 [14]
5. Poster presentation at 9th International Conference on Ribosome Synthesis, Banff, Canada [15]

Useful links

• http://www.yeastgenome.org/
• http://www.rnaclub.de
• http://people.biochem.umass.edu/fournierlab/3dmodmap/main.php
• http://modomics.genesilico.pl/
• http://www.rna.icmb.utexas.edu/
• http://espript.ibcp.fr/ESPript/cgi-bin/ESPript.cgi
• http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/phyre2/html/page.cgi?id=index