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Dr. Saman Habib

Scientist G

saman_habib[at]cdri.res.in

+91-522-277 2450

https://cdri.irins.org/profile/55311

Education:

1996: Ph. D., Jawaharlal Nehru University/ National Institute of Immunology

1991: M. Sc. (Botany), University of Delhi

Professional Experience:

2016- : Chief Scientist

2011-2016: Senior Principal Scientist

2006-2011: Principal Scientist

2002-2006: Senior Scientist

1998-2002: Scientist

1996-1998: INSA Young Scientist and Research Associate, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi

Research Focus

My groups interest in the malaria parasite is driven by the desire to understand (a) the molecular workings and functions of the relict plastid (apicoplast) of Plasmodium, (b) mechanisms of protein translation employed by Plasmodium organelles and (c) human genetic factors and susceptibility to severe P. falciparum malaria in endemic and non-endemic regions of India. My laboratory has contributed to the area of malaria biology. View More...

Selected Publications

Deepti Shrivastava, Ernest Abboud, Jadhav Prasad Ramchandra, Akanksha Jha, Jean-Baptiste Marq, Animesh Chaurasia, Kalyan Mitra, Mohammad Sadik, Mohammad Imran Siddiqi, Dominique Soldati-Favre, Joachim Kloehn and Saman Habib, ATM1, an essential conserved transporter in Apicomplexa, bridges mitochondrial and cytosolic [Fe-S] biogenesis, PLOS Pathogens , 20(9):e1012593. PMID 39348385, 2024

Sadik M, Afsar M, Ramachandran R, Habib S*, Fe-S - biogenesis and unusual assembly of the ISC scaffold complex in the Plasmodium falciparum mitochondrion., Molecular Microbiology, 116:606-623, 2021

Tiwari A, Kuldeep J, Siddiqi MI, and Habib S* (2020) Plasmodium falciparum Apn1 homolog is a mitochondrial base excision repair protein with restricted enzymatic functions. FEBS Journal, 287: 589-606., , ,

Tribeni Chatterjee, Anupama Tiwari, Ritika Gupta, Himadri Shukla, Aastha Varshney, Satish Mishra, Saman Habib, A Plasmodium apicoplast-targeted unique exonuclease/FEN exhibits interspecies functional differences attributable to an insertion that alters DNA-binding, Nucleic Acids Research, 52: 7843, 2024

Deepti Shrivastava, Akanksha Jha, Rajlakshmi Kabrambam, Jyoti Vishwakarma, Kalyan Mitra, Ravishankar Ramachandran, Saman Habib, Plasmodium falciparum ZIP1 is a zinc-selective transporter with stage-dependent targeting to the apicoplast and plasma membrane in erythrocytic parasites, ACS Infectious Diseases, 10:155-169. PMID 38163252, 2024

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Awards & Fellowships

2021: JC Bose National Fellow

2021: Fellow, Indian National Science Academy

2016: Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

2015: Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences India, Allahabad

2012: National Women Bioscientist Award, Department of Biotechnology, GOI.

Research Group

Ms. Shreya Prakash

(Project Associate (PAT-I))

Mr. Jadhav Prasad Ramchandra

(UGC-JRF)

Ms. Simmi Pradhan

(CSIR-SRF)