Dr. Pulak Ghosh

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsBiochemistry
Keywordspost-synthetic modification, 2′,3′-cGAMP, c-GAS, STING, Click-reaction
Honours and awards

2024: NOST-Anthem Biosciences Best Thesis award of the year 2024

2019: Selected as a mentee for the Asian Chemical Biology Initiative(ACBI) Co-mentorship Programme (CMP# 2019-04).

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityMünchen
InstitutionLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
InstituteDepartment Chemie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andrea RentmeisterDepartment Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2024

Programme(s)

2024Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025 Nicolas V. Cornelissen, Arne Hoffmann, Pulak Ghosh, Yanis L. Pignot, Mehmet Erguven,Andrea Rentmeister: Chimeric cofactors enable methyltransferasecatalyzed prenylation. In: Chem, 11, 2025, 102538
2025Pulak Ghosh, Apeksha A Phadte, Bindu Bhojappa, Saravanan Palani, Seergazhi G Srivatsan: Template-independent enzymatic functionalization of DNA oligonucleotides with environment-sensitive nucleotide probes using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase. In: Nucleic Acids Research, 53, 2025, gkaf108
2024Pulak Ghosh, Karin Betz, Cédric Gutfreund, Arindam Pal, Andreas Marx, Seergazhi G Srivatsan: Structures of a DNA Polymerase Caught while Incorporating Responsive Dual‐Functional Nucleotide Probes. In: Angewandte Chemie, 2024, e202414319
2022Pulak Ghosh, Heike M Kropp, Karin Betz, Samra Ludmann, Kay Diederichs, Andreas Marx, Seergazhi G Srivatsan: Microenvironment-sensitive fluorescent nucleotide probes from benzofuran, benzothiophene, and selenophene as substrates for DNA polymerases . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 2022, 10556-10569