Surya Jyoti Banerjee, Ph.D.

Research Interests:

My lab uses Drosophila (fruit fly) model and cell culture to study

(1) the cell signaling that controls nutrient homeostasis and obesity;

(2) the neuromuscular degenerative pathways associated with motor and fertility defects; and

(3) the molecular interaction that controls cell division and differentiation during eye development.

 

We use techniques of cell & molecular biology, genetics, microscopy, biochemistry, bioinformatics and statistics in our research.

Publication:

• Rajput Mrigendra, Momin Tooba, Singh Amit, Banerjee Surya, Villasenor Andrew, Sheldon Jessica, Paudel Pratikshya, Ravindra Rajput. Determining the association between gut microbiota and its metabolites with higher intestinal Immunoglobulin A response, Veterinary and Animal Science (2022), pp 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vas.2022.100279

 

• Joshi Rashmi, Banerjee Surya, Curtiss Jennifer and Ashley Amanda. DNA ligase IV mutations confer shorter lifespan and increased sensitivity to nutrient stress in Drosophila melanogaster, Journal of Applied Genetics (2021), pp1-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13353-021-00637-0

 

• Banerjee Surya Jyoti, Schonbrun Adina*, Sogol Eizadshenass*, Shimshon Benji*, Cantor Yaakov Tzvi*, Eliach Liam*, Lubin Matthew*, Narrowe Zev*, Purow Jeremy*, Shulman Benjamin*, Wiener Leib*, Steinhauer Josefa. iPLA2-VIA is required for healthy aging in neurons, muscle, and female germline in Drosophila melanogaster, PLOS ONE, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256738

 

• Banerjee Surya, Woods Christine, Burnett Micheal, Park Scarlet J., Ja William W., and Curtiss Jennifer. The Drosophila melanogaster Neprilysin Nepl15 is involved in lipid and carbohydrate storage, Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 1-18. 3.
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84100-4

 

• Banerjee Surya, Shimshon Benji*, Sarah Liberow*, and Steinhauer Josefa. Using Drosophila melanogaster To Discover Human Disease Genes: An Educational Primer for Use with “Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Modifiers in Drosophila Reveal the Phospholipase D Pathway as a Potential Therapeutic Target”, Genetics 216, no. 3 (2020): 633-641. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.120.303495

 

• Banerjee Surya. An Activity for Cell Biology Course to Implement Active Learning, Scientific Journal of Biology & Life Sciences, 1(5) (2021): 2020. SJBLS.MS.ID.000521;

https://irispublishers.com/sjbls/fulltext/an-activity-for-cell-biology-course-to-implement-active-learning.ID.000521.php

 

• Chatterjee Suparna and Banerjee Surya. (2023). The role of first-hand experience in science laboratory for designing science classrooms. In E. Langran, P. Christensen & J. Sanson (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(pp. 1703-1706). New Orleans, LA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved April 13, 2023 from 

https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/222053/.

 

• Chatterjee Suparna and Banerjee Surya. Strategies impacting student engagement in an undergraduate science classroom through diversity in the classroom practices, Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Education (2019), pp. 1138-1153. http://hiceducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EDU2019.pdf