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Yatender Kumar
Assistant Professor
Qualification
B.Tech, GGSIPU, New Delhi; Ph.D, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad; Post Doc: Max-Planck Unit, Germany
Email
yatender.kumar@nsut.ac.in

 

Dr. Yatender Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences & Engineering (Formerly, Division of Biotechnology, NSIT), NSUT, Dwarka Sector- 3, New Delhi, and his research areas include Programmed Cell Death, Innate Immunity, and Alzheimer’s disease. He did his Ph.D. from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB), Hyderabad, INDIA in the year 2010 and postdoc from Max-Planck Unit for Structural and Molecular Biology, Hamburg and DZNE, Bonn, Germany where he received a prestigious Max-Planck fellowship awarded by the Max-Planck Society. Later, he joined Premas Biotech Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon as a Research Scientist where he worked on the development of cell-based screening assays; cloning, expression, and purification of antibodies. He got associated with NSIT as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biotechnology from 1st October 2014.

Teaching:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, Recombinant DNA Technology I & II, Methods and Instrumentation in Biotechnology, Current Topics in Biotechnology, Advance Genetic Engineering, Systems Biology, Metabolic Regulations and Engineering, Molecular & Cellular Diagnostics, Computer-Aided Vaccine Design

Areas of Interest:

Cellular and Molecular Biology with a special interest in:

Host-Pathogen Interaction, Neurodegeneration, Toxicology, and Expression & Purification of Recombinant Proteins.

 

Workshop Organized:

A Two-day “Biohazard Management Workshop” 24-25th June 2016 at NSIT.

FDP Organized:

A One-Week FDP on “Drug Discovery & Design in 21st Century” 5th-9th July 2021 at NSUT.

Honors and Awards:

  • Early Career Research Award 2016 from Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
  • Max-Planck Institute Research Fellowship, Germany (Jan 2011- Mar 2013).
  • Guest Scientist Fellowship from Institute of Experimental Internal Medicine, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany (Aug-Sep 2010)
  • Awarded 1st Prize for "Dr. K. V. Rao Research Award" for the year 2010 in Biological Sciences, held on 3rd April 2010, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, India.
  • Senior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India(2006-2009).
  • Junior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India(2004-2006).
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - Qualified in the year 2004 with 88 percentile (All India Rank 55).
  • 3rd Rank in All India Common Entrance Test for B.Tech in Biotechnology program of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), New Delhi (2000) and awarded the scholarship.

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/FDPs:

  • Poster presentation in BESCON – 2017, "Biological Engineering in 21st Century" at NSIT, September 8 - 9, (2017).
  • Participated in one-week Short Term Course on “Accreditation of Programmes’ organized by CDC at NITTTR, Chandigarh, from 5-9 June 2017.
  • Participated in one-week Short Term Course on “Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Applications” held at NSIT during 26th - 30th December 2016.
  • Participated in Workshop on “IPR Awareness ”held on 22nd and 23rd January 2016 at NSIT.
  • Participated in Workshop on “Moodle: An Online Learning Management System” held on 13th and 14th July 2015 in ICE Division, NSIT.
  • Oral Presentation at “11th International Conference On Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases AD/PD 2013” Florence, Italy, March 6-10 (2013).
  • Participated in 1st Microscopy Workshop “Zeiss on Your Campus at DZNE” Bonn, Germany, Dec 5-6 (2012).
  • Participated in 2ndAnnual Gladstone/DZNE workshop on ‘Synaptic Pathophysiology and Neurodegenerative Disease’, Bonn, Germany, May 16-18 (2012).
  • Oral Presentation at Annual DZNE Unit Science Meeting on “Novel diffusion barrier for axonal retention of Tau in neurons and its failure in neurodegeneration”, Bonn, Germany, 23rd March, (2012).
  • Participated in “DZNE AND MPI CONFERENCE ON AGEING AND NEURODEGENERATION”, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, September 1-4 (2011).
  • Oral Presentation in “XXXII All India Cell Biology Conference & Symposium on Stem Cells and Pattern Formation”, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India, December 4-6 (2008).
  • Participated in “International Symposium on Translational Research: Apoptosis & Cancer”, Trivandrum, India, December 18-21 (2005).
  • Participated in “1stAnnual International Conference on Translational Research B2B-2K5 for Cancer and Other Diseases”, CCMB, Hyderabad, India, March 19-20 (2005).
  • Participated in symposia on “Highlighting principal activities of Indian Biotechnology Industry in the second Indo - Asian Business meet”, organized by All India Biotech Association (AIBA), New Delhi, India, September (2003).

 

Publications in International Journal

 

Publications in National Journal

 

Publications in National Conferences

 

Publications in International Conferences

 

Books/Book Chapters

 

Publications (Click to expand)
  • Sharma A, Anand JS, Kumar Y. Immunotherapeutics for AD: A Work in Progress. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2021 Sep 2. doi: 10.2174/1871527320666210903101522.
  • Saini S, Kumar Y. Bispecific antibodies: A promising entrant in cancer immunotherapy. Translational Biotechnology (2021) 233-266.
  • Kailoo S, Shreya, Kumar Y. Cytolethal distending toxin: from genotoxin to a potential biomarker and anti-tumor target. World J Microbiol Biotechnol (2021) 37(9):150.
  • Gupta A, Kumar Y. Bispecific antibodies: a novel approach for targeting prominent biomarkers. Hum Vaccin Immunother. (2020) 16(11):2831-2839.
  • Sharma A, Kumar Y. Nature's Derivative(s) as Alternative Anti-Alzheimer's Disease Treatments. J Alzheimers Dis Rep. (2019) 3(1):279-297.
  • Zempel H, Dennissen F, Kumar Y, Luedtke J, Biernat J, Mandelkow EM, Mandelkow E.Axondendritic sorting and pathological missorting of Tau is isoform specificand determined by axon initial segment architecture. J Biol Chem. (2017) 292(29):12192-12207.
  • Raghawan AK, Sripada A, Gopinath G, Pushpanjali P, Kumar Y, Radha V, Swarup G. A Disease-associated Mutant of NLRC4 Shows Enhanced Interaction with SUG1 Leading to Constitutive FADD-dependent Caspase-8 Activation and Cell Death. J Biol Chem. (2017) Vol 292(4): 1218-1230.
  • Mandelkow EM, Sydow A, Hochgrafe K, Kumar Y, Zempel H, Mandelkow E. Tau, axonal transport and Alzheimer's disease. European Neuropsychopharmacology (2013) Vol 23: S115-S116.
  • Zempel H, Luedtke J, Kumar Y, Biernat J, Dawson H, Mandelkow E, Mandelkow EM. Amyloid-β oligomers induce synaptic damage via Tau-dependent microtubule severing by TTLL6 and spastin. EMBO J. (2013) Vol 32(22), 2920-2937.
  • Li X, Kumar Y, Zempel H, Mandelkow EM, Biernat J, Mandelkow E. Novel diffusion barrier for axonal retention of Tau in neurons and its failure in neurodegeneration. EMBO J. (2011) Vol 30(23), 4825-4837.                                                                        
  • Kumar Y, Radha V, Swarup G. Interaction with Sug1 enables Ipaf ubiquitination leading to caspase-8 activation and cell death. Biochem. J. (2010) Vol 427(1), 91-104.
  • Kumar Y, Radha V, Swarup G. CASP1 (caspase 1, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase (interleukin 1, beta, convertase)). Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. (2008); Vol 12(4), 269-275.
  • Kumar Y, Radha V, Swarup G.NLRC4 (NLR Family, CARD domain containing 4). Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. (2008); Vol 12(1), 56-58.

 

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