Pharvendra Kumar

Post-Doctoral Associate with expertise in DNA sequencing microbial assays and Anaerobic culture at UMass Chan Medical School. Leading a project's aim to reduce health outcomes of Klebsiella pneumoniae infection in mice models by testing innovative therapeutic interventions like synthetic microbial consortium.

Former doctoral Researcher at Regional Centre for Biotechnology India, experienced in host-pathogen interaction research, methods in molecular biology, cellular immunology, microbiology and computational biology and mice models. Core competencies include creative thinking, collaborative teamwork, and strategic planning. Career goal: advancing biologics solutions through cutting-edge research methodologies. Detail-oriented Research Fellow with more than 8th years of substantial experience in sophisticated research techniques and technologies in Biotechnology field. Organised and able to take charge.

• Reviewer, Molecular Neurobiology Journal (Springer Nature)

• Have won One Silver medal in Badminton tournament at RCB annual sports meet (2023)
• Attended Online course on Flow Cytometry organized by Flowcytometry solutions (p) Ltd, Jaipur, India (2022)
• Participated in Intellectual Property Awareness / Training program under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (2022)
• Have won Two silver and One Bronze medals in Badminton tournament at RCB annual sports event (2019)
• “Certificate of Excellence” by The central railway employees co-operative credit society ltd., Byculla, Mumbai (2006)
• Passed Certificate “A” examination under the authority of Ministry of Defense, GOI (2004)
• Participated in Combined Annual Training Camp of National Cadet Corps (NCC) in 3 UP Air Sqn NCC Kanpur Unit (2002)

• Poster presented at RCB programme advisory committee (PAC-2023) RCB, Faridabad titled “PTMs mediated selective regulation of target genes by Activator protein 1 (AP-1): Implication in Host-Salmonella interaction” (2023)
• Poster presented at NCR-Cluster Young Investigator’s Symposium, RCB, Faridabad titled “Salmonella Typhimurium governs selective regulation of UBC9 and PIAS1 by Activator protein 1 (AP1)” (2019)
• Poster presented at International Symposium on Infectious Diseases (ID-Symposium), Jamia Hamdard, Delhi NCR titled “A PTM dependent selective regulation of UBC9 and PIAS1 by Activator protein 1 (AP1) during Salmonella Typhimurium infection” (2018)
• Poster presented at National institute of advanced industrial science and technology (AIST), Japan titled “SUMOylation dependent selective regulation of AP-1 target genes during Salmonella Typhimurium infection” (2018)
• Poster presented at RCB programme advisory committee (PAC-2017) RCB, Faridabad titled “A novel SUMOylation dependent regulation of UBC9 and PIAS1 by AP-1 transcription factor during Salmonella infection” (2017)
• Poster presented at RCB programme advisory committee (PAC-2016) RCB, Faridabad titled “Understanding the Regulation of SUMO pathway genes during Salmonella Typhimurium infection and intestinal inflammation” (2016)
• Joint IUBMB-RCB Advanced School-2014 “Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Networks, Crosstalk and Interventions”, Manesar, Haryana, India (2014)

1. Kumar, P., Soory, A., Mustfa, S. A., Sarmah, D. T., Devvanshi, H., Chatterjee, S., Bossis, G., Ratnaparkhi, G. S. and Srikanth,

C. V. Bidirectional regulation between AP-1 and SUMOylation pathway genes modulates inflammatory signaling during

Salmonella infection. J Cell Sci (2022) 135 (16): jcs260096. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.260096.

2. Awasthi, A., Kumar, P., Srikanth, C.V. et al. In vitro Evaluation of Torin2 and 2, 6-Dihydroxyacetophenone in Colorectal

Cancer Therapy. Pathol. Oncol. Res. 25, 301–309 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12253-017-0347-7

3. Amrish Agrawal, Dipak Kumar Hazra, Pharvendra Kumar, Phool Kumar Patanjali, S.K. Raza “Water dispersable Granule

Formulation of Insecticide TRIAZOPHOS” - US Patent 1682/DEL/2014 Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology (IPFT),

Gurugram, India.

4. First person – Pharvendra Kumar. Bidirectional regulation between AP-1 and SUMOylation pathway genes modulates

inflammatory signaling during Salmonella infection. J Cell Sci (2022) 135 (16): jcs260486.

https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.260486. Online Issn: 1477-9137. Print Issn: 0021-9533

5. Salman Ahmad Mustfa, Pharvendra Kumar, Dikshalee Bassi, Aamir Suhail, Neha Yadav, Chirantan Debnath, Jitendra

Yadav, Ayub Qadri, Pallavi Kshetrapal, and Chittur V. Srikanth, “PIAS1-BIRC3 axis at mucosal interface restricts Salmonella

Typhimurium colonization and migration” (Under Communication)