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    Banerjee Lab Mail Code: 160606 621 Charles E. Young Drive South Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606 Lab telephone: (310) 825-2980

    Please contact Suchandra Ghosh at sghosh@mcdb.ucla.edu for lab related matters and Win Lam at win@lifesci.ucla.edu for administrative matters.

  • Location

    Location on campus

    Banerjee Lab 364 Paul D. Boyer Hall Molecular Biology Institute 611 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095-1570

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  • Undergraduates

    Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. For undergraduate students with questions regarding classes or the Major please contact Student Affairs Officer Dr. Pamela Hurley at pamelah@mcdb.ucla.edu.

    Minor in Biomedical Research. For students with questions regarding the Minor or research opportunities please contact Academic Administrator Dr. Ira Clark at iclark@ucla.edu.

    Life Sciences 10H. For students with questions regarding Life Sciences 10H or research opportunities please contact Dr. John Olson at jmolson@ucla.edu.

  • Graduates

    Apply for our graduate student program

    Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology graduate program applicants can apply through the UCLA ACCESS Programs in the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Sciences website at http://www.uclaaccess.ucla.edu/UCLAACCESS.

  • Positions

    Join our lab

    The Banerjee Lab welcomes inquiries from innovative and dedicated researchers. Please send your curriculum vitae, research statement, and list of references to chair@mcdb.ucla.edu.

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Shubha Gururaja Rao is a Postdoctoral Researcher. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom in 2008.

Our lab has previously identified two mitochondrial proteins involved in eye development PDSW (NADH Dehydrogenase) and CoVa (cytochrome-c oxidase Va) present in Complex I and Complex IV of the eukaryotic mitochondria respectively (Owusu-Ansah et al. 2008 and Mandal et al. 2005). To further characterize the functional roles of these proteins and the pathways in which they are involved, we carried out a genetic screen in the Drosophila eye using RNAi lines for PDSW and CoVa. Our screen was conducted by crossing the RNAi lines against 1200 piggybac lines, 260 VDRC RNAi lines, and 200 EP (Expression P) lines and we have identified 30 candidate genes as genetic interactors. We will be concentrating on further characterizing the candidate genes in order to elucidate their functional interaction with PDSW and CoVa.

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