Epernicus: Chandan Sahi, Ph.D.

Chandan Sahi, Ph.D.

Position:
Assistant Professor

Biological Sciences

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Degrees:

Ph.D., Molecular Biology, University of Delhi (Delhi, India)

M.Sc., Molecular Biology, University of Delhi (Delhi, India)

B.S., Botany (Hons), University of Delhi (Delhi, India)
Past Advisors:

Elizabeth A. Craig (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Anil Grover (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
Molecular Chaperones and in vivo protein folding
Other Experience:
2009-2011 Assistant Scientist, Biochemistry, UW-Madison, USA

2005-2009 Research Associate, Biochemistry, UW-Madison, USA

2002-2004 Senior Research Fellow, CSIR

2000-2002 Junior Research Fellow, CSIR
Honors:
2002-2004 Qualified for Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR-NET

2000-2002 Qualified for Junior Research Fellowship, CSIR-NET

1997 Awarded Junior Research Fellowship from ICAR, New Delhi

Communities:

Chandan Sahi's Genealogy

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Chandan Sahi's Publications (19)

Cycloheximide-mediated superinduction of genes involves both native and foreign transcripts in rice (Oryza sativa L.).
Agarwal M, Singh A, Mittal D, Sahi C, Grover A

Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB / Société française de physiologie végétale. 2011 Jan;49(1):9-12
A targeted analysis of cellular chaperones reveals contrasting roles for heat shock protein 70 in flock house virus RNA replication.
Weeks SA, Shield WP, Sahi C, Craig EA, Rospert S, Miller DJ

Journal of virology. 2010 Jan;84(1):330-9
Cwc23, an essential J protein critical for pre-mRNA splicing with a dispensable J domain.
Sahi C, Lee T, Inada M, Pleiss JA, Craig EA

Molecular and cellular biology. 2010 Jan;30(1):33-42
Chymotrypsin protease inhibitor gene family in rice: Genomic organization and evidence for the presence of a bidirectional promoter shared between two chymotrypsin protease inhibitor genes.
Singh A, Sahi C, Grover A

Gene. 2009 Jan 1;428(1-2):9-19
Specificity of the J-protein Sis1 in the propagation of 3 yeast prions.
Higurashi T, Hines JK, Sahi C, Aron R, Craig EA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Oct 28;105(43):16596-601
SUMO-conjugating enzyme (Sce) and FK506-binding protein (FKBP) encoding rice (Oryza sativa L.) genes: genome-wide analysis, expression studies and evidence for their involvement in abiotic stress response.
Nigam N, Singh A, Sahi C, Chandramouli A, Grover A

Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG. 2008 Apr;279(4):371-83
J-protein co-chaperone Sis1 required for generation of [RNQ+] seeds necessary for prion propagation.
Aron R, Higurashi T, Sahi C, Craig EA

The EMBO journal. 2007 Aug 22;26(16):3794-803
Network of general and specialty J protein chaperones of the yeast cytosol.
Sahi C, Craig EA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 Apr 24;104(17):7163-8
Molecular characterization of a novel isoform of rice (Oryza sativa L.) glycine rich-RNA binding protein and evidence for its involvement in high temperature stress response
Chandan Sahi, Manu Aggarwal, Amanjot Singh, Anil Grover

Plant Science. 2007;173:144-155
Transgenic rice for tolerance against abiotic stresses
Anil Grover, Anupama Chandramouli, Sangeeta Agarwal, Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal, Manu Agarwal, Chandan Sahi

Rice Improvement in the Genomic Era, Datta, SK (ed.) . 2007
Salt stress response in rice: genetics, molecular biology, and comparative genomics.
Sahi C, Singh A, Kumar K, Blumwald E, Grover A

Functional & integrative genomics. 2006 Oct;6(4):263-84
Beyond osmolytes and transporters: novel plant salt-stress tolerance-related genes from transcriptional profiling data
Chandan Sahi, Amanjot Singh, Eduardo Blumwald, Anil Grover

Physiologia Plantarum. 2006;127:1-9
Molecular characterization of rice hsp101: complementation of yeast hsp104 mutation by disaggregation of protein granules and differential expression in indica and japonica rice types.
Agarwal M, Sahi C, Katiyar-Agarwal S, Agarwal S, Young T, Gallie DR, Sharma VM, Ganesan K, Grover A

Plant molecular biology. 2003 Mar;51(4):543-53
Isolation and expression analysis of salt stress-associated ESTs from contrasting rice cultivars using a PCR-based subtraction method.
Sahi C, Agarwal M, Reddy MK, Sopory SK, Grover A

TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik. 2003 Feb;106(4):620-8
Arabidopsis thaliana Hsp100 proteins: kith and kin.
Agarwal M, Katiyar-Agarwal S, Sahi C, Gallie DR, Grover A

Cell stress & chaperones. 2001 Jul;6(3):219-24
Production of abiotic stress tolerant transgenic rice plants
Anil Grover, Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal, Manu Agarwal, Chandan Sahi , Satya O Laxmi, Himanshu Dubey, Sangeeta Agarwal, Avnish Kapoor

Proc Third Intl Rice Genet Symp. 2001
Understanding molecular alphabets of the plant abiotic stress response
Anil Grover, Avnish Kapoor, Satya O Laxmi, Chandan Sahi, Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal, Manu Agarwal, Himanshu Dubey

Current Science. 2001;80(2):206-216
Production of high temperature tolerant transgenic plants through manipulation of membrane lipids
Anil Grover, Manu Agarwal, Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal, Chandan Sahi , Sangeeta Agarwal

Current Science. 2000;79(5):557-559
Taming abiotic stresses in plants through genetic engineering: current strategies and perspective
Anil Grover, Chandan Sahi, Neeti Sanan, Anita Grover

Plant Science. 1999;143:101-111

Chandan Sahi's Posters and Presentations (6)

Network of general and specialty J proteins of the yeast cytosol (presentation)
Chandan Sahi and Elizabeth A Craig

13th Annual Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; 01/2008
Requirement of the J-protein Co-chaperone Sis1 for Maintenance of the Yeast [RNQ+] Prion (poster)
Takashi Higurashi, Rebecca M. Aron, Chandan Sahi, and Elizabeth A. Craig

Conferences Jacques-Monod "Protein misfolding and aggregation in ageing and disease" Roscoff, France; 04/2007
Requirement of the j-protein co-chaperone Sis1 for maintenance of the yeast [RNQ+] prion. (poster)
Takashi Higurashi, Rebecca M. Aron, Chandan Sahi, and Elizabeth A. Craig

12th Midwest Stress Response and Chaperone Conferene at Evanceton, Illinois; 02/2007
Global analysis if cytosolic J protein function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (poster)
Chandan Sahi, Alison Meyer, Rebecca Aron and Elizabeth A Craig

Molecular Chaperones & Stress Responses, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; 05/2005
Functional genomics of abiotic stress responses in rice (presentation)
Chandan Sahi

9th National Rice Biotechnology Network (NRBN) Meeting, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi; 06/2004
Isolation and expression analysis of salt stress associated ESTs from contrasting rice cultivars using a PCR-based subtraction method (poster)
Chandan Sahi, Manu Agarwal, MK Reddy, SK Sopory and Anil Grover

2nd International Congress of Plant Physiology, Sustainable plant productivity under changing environment New Delhi, India; 06/2003

One Figure

Yeast Cytoslic J Proteins, (Sahi and Craig, PNAS, 2007)

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