Mousumi Mutsuddi
Banaras Hindu University, India
Biography
Mousumi Mutsuddi is currently a Faculty in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Banaras Hindu University, India. She has received her PhD degree from the Cytogenetics Laboratory, Banaras Hindu University, India. She subsequently obtained her Research Trainings at University of Massachusetts, USA and Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. She was a Research Scientist at Broad Institute (Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology), USA and has joined Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Banaras Hindu University in 2006. Her lab has identified novel genes in Drosophila which have important role to play in apoptosis and neuronal development. Her work has been accepted recently for publication in "Genetics" which is a premier journal publication by the Genetics Society of America. She was also a Visiting Scientist at MIT in 2008 and at National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda (2012-2013). She is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Neuro-Infectious Disease, USA, Journal of Cell Science & Molecular, India and several other journals. She is also the Reviewing Board Member for journals like Neurogenetics, Biomed Central, Journal of Neurological disorders, Journal of Genetics, FEBS letter, PlosOne, etc.rnrn