Prof. Dr. Dipshikha Chakravortty

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMicrobial Ecology and Applied Microbiology,Medical Microbiology, Mycology and Hygiene, Molecular Infection Biology,Immunology
KeywordsSalmonella, Macrophages, Epithelial cells, SP12, NADPH, INOS

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityBengaluru
InstitutionIndian Institute of Science (IISC)
InstituteDepartment of Microbiology and Cell Biology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Michael HenselInstitut für Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2003

Program(s)

2002Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2009Dipshikha Chakravortty, Nayak M, Kotian A, Marathe S: Detection of microorganisms using biosensors - a smarter way towards detection techniques. In: Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2009,
2009Dipshikha Chakravortty, Eswarappa S M, Janice J, Nagaran A G, Balasundaram S V, Karnam G, Dixit N M: Differentially Evolved Genes of Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands: Insights into the Mechanism of Host Specificity in Salmonella. In: PLoS One, 2009, e3829
2009Dipshikha Chakravortty, Eswarappa SM, Karnam G, Nagarajan AG: Lack of lac Repressor has enabled Salmonalla enterica to gain virulence. In: PLoS One, 2009, e5789
2009Dipshikha Chakravortty, Das P, Lahiri A, Lahiri Ay: Novel Role of the Nitrite Transporter NirC in Salmonella Pathogenesis: SP12-Dependent Suppresion of Inducilbe Nitric Oxide Synthase in the Activated macrophages. In: Microbiology-SGM, 2009, 2476-2489
2009Dipshikha Chakravortty, Nagaraja A, Karnam G, Lahiri A, Allam US: Reliable Means of Diagnosis and Serovar Determination of Bloode Borne Salmonella: Quick PCR Amplification of Unique and Stable Genomic Loci by Novel Primer Sets. In: J Clin Micro, 2009, 2435-2441
2009Dipshikha Chakravortty, Lahiri A, Das P: Salmonella typhimurium: Insight into the multi-faceted role of the LysR type transcriptional regulators in Salmonella. In: Int J Biochem Cell Biol, 2009,
2009Dipshikha Chakravortty, Nagarajan A, Balasundaram S, Janice J, Karnam G, Eswarappa S M SopB of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a potential DNA vaccine candidate in conjugation with live attenuated bacteria. In: Vaccine, 2009, 2804-2811
2009Dipshikha Chakravortty, Eswarappa S M, Janice J, Balasundaram S V, Dixit N M: Why closely related Salmonella enterica serovars Enteritidis and Gallinarum are phenotypically very different? Insights from comparative genomics. In: Infection, Evolution and genetics, 2009, 468-473
2008Dipshikha Chakravortty, Lahiri A, Das P: Arginase mudulates Salmonella induced nitric oxide production in RA W264.7 macrophages and is required for Salmonella pathogenesis in mice model of infection. In: Microbes Infect., 2008, 1166-1174
2008Dipshikha Chakravortty, Eswarappa S M, Pareek Vidhi: Disruption of actin cytoskeleton does not affect lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-KB activation and signaling in murine macrophages. In: Innate Immunity, 2008, 309-318
2008Dipshikha Chakravortty, Lahiri A, Das P: Engagement of TLR signaling as adjuvant: Towards smarter vaccine and beyond. In: Vaccine, 2008, 6777-6783
2008Dipshikha Chakravortty, Eswarappa S M, Basu N, Joy O: Folimycin (concanamycinA) inhibits LPS-induced nitric oxide production and reduces surface localization of TLR4 in murine macrophages. In: Innate Immunity, 2008, 13-24
2008Dipshikha Chakravortty, Jantsch J, Turna N, Alexander T et al.: Hypoxia and Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1Modulate Lipopolysacchride-Induced Dendritic Cell Activation and Function. In: J. Immunol., 2008, 4697-4705
2008Dipshikha Chakravortty, Lahiri A, Das P: LysR type transcripional regulator, Hrg counteracts phagocyte oxidative burst and imparts survival advantage to Salmonella enterica serovar Thyphimurium. In: Microbiology-SGM, 2008, 2837-2846
2008Dipshikha Chakravortty, Sakure S, Negi VD, Mitra SK, Nandakumar KS: Vaccine with herbal adjuvant-A better cocktail to combat the infection. In: Vaccine, 2008, 3387-3388
2008Dipshikha Chakravortty, Eswarappa S M, Panguluri K K, Hensel M: yejF, a virulence gene in Salmonella enterica Thyimurium is involded in counteracting anti-microbial peptides. In: MicrobiologySGM, 2008, 666-678
2007Dipshikha Chakravortty, Negi VD, Singhamahapatra S: Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain lacking pmrG-HM-D provides excellent protection against salmonellosis in murine typhoid model. In: Vaccine, 2007, 5315-5323
2005Dipshikha Chakravortty, Manfred Rohde, Lorenz Jäger, Jörg Deiwick, Michael Hensel: Formation of a novel surface structure encoded by Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2. In: The EMBO Journal, 2005, 2043-2052