GRADUATE STUDENT

Purbita obtained her MS in Biotechnology from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, where she studied a novel histone chaperone implicated in SIDDT syndrome.

Purbita joined the Banaszynski Lab in 2020. She is interested in chromatin regulation of endogenous retroelements.

Publications
Endogenous EWSR1-FLI1 degron alleles enable control of fusion oncoprotein expression in tumor cell lines and xenografts
McGinnis JH, Enriquez AB, Vandiver F, Bai X, Kim J, Kilgore J, Saha P, O’Hara R, Xie Y, Banaszynski LA, Williams B, McFadden DG. (2024) . bioRxiv. [paper]

H3.3 contributes to chromatin accessibility and transcription factor binding at promoter-proximal regulatory elements in embryonic stem cells
Tafessu A, O’Hara R, Martire S, Dube AL, Saha P, Gant VU, Banaszynski LA. (2023) Genome Biology, 24, 25. [paper]

PASK links cellular energy metabolism with a mitotic self-renewal network to establish differentiation competence
Xiao M, Wu C-H, Meek G, Kelly B, Young LEA, Martire S, Castillo DB, Saha P, Dube AL, Gentry MS, Banaszynski LA, Sun RC, Kikani CK. (2023) Elife 81717. [paper]