Yatendra Kumar (PhD)
Postdoctoral Fellow
- MRC Human Genetics Unit
- Institute of Genetics and Cancer
Contact details
Address
- Street
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MRC Human Genetics Unit
Institute of Genetics and Cancer
Crewe Road South
Edinburgh - City
- Western General Hospital
- Post code
- EH42XR
Background
I am a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Wendy Bickmore at MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh.
I graduated with a first-class BSc from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2003. During the final year of my BSc, I became fascinated by the concept of microbial genetic engineering, which led me to enrol in an MSc Biotechnology program at CCS University, Meerut, India. I graduated with a first-class MSc in 2005. In the same year, I successfully passed the University Grants Commission's National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET), qualifying for a lectureship at Indian universities. I was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to fund my PhD. In 2013, I completed my PhD on RNA polymerase III transcription at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), a centre of excellence under the umbrella of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Qualifications
PhD, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
Research summary
My long-term interest is in exploring mechanisms underlying gene regulation in the context of mammalian development and human disease. I combine biochemical, genomic and computational approaches to establish cause-consequence relationships in a genome-wide manner.