Manisha Nautiyal, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Syngenta, Inc.

Education:

Ph.D., Molecular Medicine, 2003 - 2008
Wake Forest University Graduate School of the Arts & Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC

M.S., Organic Chemistry, 1999
H.N.B. Garhwal University, India

B.S., Biology/Chemistry, 1997
H.N.B. Garhwal University, India

Research Interest:

How metabolism of the branched chain amino acid (BCAA) leucine is involved in regulating leucine signaling.

Publications:

Nautiyal M, Islam M, Wajih N, Mobley JA, MacKenzie JA, Payne RM, Wallin R, Hutson S. Identification and characterization of mitochondrial NIPSNAP1. (In preparation)

Nautiyal M, Sweatt AJ, and Hutson SM. Neuronal Localization of the Branched-Chain Amino Acid (BCAA) Metabolon Protein Component, NIPSNAP1, in rat brain. (In preparation)

Nautiyal M, Wajih N, Fujii H, Wallin R, Hutson S. “Identification of NIPSNAP1 as a component of a supramolecular complex of leucine catabolic enzymes.” The FASEB Journal. 2004 March 24;18 (5): A848.

Grants:

American Heart Association, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Nautiyal (PI) Investigating the function(s) of a novel protein, NIPSNAP1, in a complex (metabolon) of mitochondrial metabolic enzymes Role:  PI

2005-2006     Molecular Medicine NIH Training Grant