Lata Balakrishnan
Indiana University – Purdue University, USA
Biography
Lata Balakrishnan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology in the School of Science at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. The current research in the Balakrishnan laboratory is focused on understanding the mechanistic reactions of eukaryotic lagging strand DNA synthesis, and the accompanying DNA repair processes. She trained with Dr. Robert Bambara, at the University of Rochester for her post-doctoral fellowship and received her Ph.D. under the mentorship of Dr. Barry Milavetz at University of North Dakota, wherein her dissertation work defined the epigenetic code during viral transcription.
Abstract
Abstract : Replication protein lysine acetylation regulates the fidelity of the human genome