| Professional
Experience |
| 1989-1991 |
Junior Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, Indore, India |
| 1992-1993 |
Senior Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, Indore, India |
| 1994-1999 |
Project Scientist, Genes and Proteins Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India |
| 2000-2001 |
Guest Lecturer, Vaid's Institute, New Delhi, India |
| 2003-Present |
Junior Researcher, Retrovirology Research Laboratory, Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii |
Honors
and Awards
| 1985 |
Merit Scholarship in B.S. by the Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India |
| 1989-93 |
University Grants Commission-Council of Science and Industrial Research (UGC-CSIR) and Lecturer Eligibility Fellowship, India |
| 1992 |
MPSCT YOUNG SCIENTIST, Merit certificate in 7th Young Scientist conference organized by MP Council of Science and Technology, India |
| 1992 |
Travel Award from CSIR, India to attend Annual Meeting of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Anaheim, California |
| 2004 |
Travel Award from Retrovirology and Opportunistic Infections Society to attend the 11th conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections to be held in San Francisco from February 8-11, 2004 |
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Selected Peer-reviewed Publications
Publications:
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Verma S., Kumar G.P, Laloraya M, Singh A, Nivsarkar M and Bharti S. (1990) Discovery of a novel and alternate hydrogen peroxide generating machinery in mammalian thyroid gland that modulates iodination of tyrsine. Biochem.; Biophys. Res Commun. 169:1-7.
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Verma S., Kumar G.P, Laloraya M, and Singh A (1990) Activation of iodine into a free radical intermediate by superoxide: A physiologically significant step in the iodination of tyrosine. Biochem.; Biophys. Res Commun. 170:1026-1034.
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Kumar G.P, Tillo N, Laloraya M, Verma S., and Singh A (1990) Superoxide radical induces lipid phase transitions that mimics temperature induced phase transition phenomenon of membrane lipids. Biochem. Biophys. Res Commun. 172:601-606.
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Kumar G.P, Sherwani N, Laloraya M, Verma S., and Singh A (1990) Superoxide dismutase as a regulatory switch in mammalian testicular steroidogenesis. Biochem. Biophys. Res Commun. 173:302-308.
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Verma S ., Kumar G.P, Laloraya M, Singh A, Nivsarkar M (1991) Superoxide dismutase activation in thyroid and suppression in adrenals: a novel pituitary regulatory routes. FEBS LETTS. 282: 310-312.
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Singh A, Kumar G.P, Laloraya M, Verma S, and Nivsarkar M (1991) Modulation of superoxide dismutase activity by spermine: its contexual significance in sperm maturation. Biochem. Biophys.Res.Commun.177:420-426.
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Mahopatra B, Verma S, Shankar S and Suri A. (1998) Molecular cloning of human testis mRNA specifically expressed in haploid germ cells, having structural homology with the A-kinase Anchoring proteins. Biochem.; Biophys. Res Commun. 244: 540-545.
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Verma S, Mohapatra B, Jagadish N, Selvi R, Roy P, Rana R, Lakshmi K, Suri A (2004) Molecular cloning, expression of testicular transcript abundant in germ cells and immunobiological effects of the recombinant protein. Am Jour. Reproduc. Immunol. 52 (2): 164-73.
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S. Shankar, S. Verma, R. Selvi, N. Jagadish and A. Suri.Isolation and Characterization of a Haploid Germ Cell Specific Sperm Associated Antigen 9 (SPAG9) from the Baboon. Mol. Reprod. Develop. (in Press).
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Verma S., Ziegler K., Bui T., Frisque RJ, Yanagihara R and Nerurkar VR (2004) Altered Patterns of Cellular Gene Expression in Primary Human Glial Cells Transfected with JC virus: Stat-1 and IFN-responsive Genes as Major Targets (communicated).
Abstracts:
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Verma S., Kumar G.P, Laloraya M (1994); Superoxide radical as a growth modulator in thyroid. 17th Annual conference of American Society for Biochem. and Mol. Biol., Delhi.
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Verma S. (1992) SOD and Peroxidase: components in adrenal progesterone synthesising multienzyme complex. Annual meeting of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) in Anaheim, California, USA.
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Verma S. (1992) A re-examination of proposed inactivation of thyroglobulin by propylthiouracil. 7th MPCST Young Scientist Conference in Indore, India.
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Verma S., Kumar G.P, Laloraya M, Singh A, Nivsarkar M and Bharti S. (1991) A possible role of superoxide radical and SOD in enzyme iodination. 31st Annual meeting of American Society of cell Biology at Boston, USA.
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Verma S., T Bui, R J Frisque, R. Yanagihara, and Nerurkar V R (2003) Pathogenesis of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML): Global modulation of host gene expression. In 11 th conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections held in San Francisco from Feb., 2004.
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S Verma, K Ziegler, R J Frisque, R. Yanagihara, and V R Nerurkar (2004) Altered Patterns of Cellular Gene Expression in Primary Human Glial Cells Transfected with JC virus. In the annual conference of American Society of Virology held in Montreal, Canada from July 9 th to 14 th.
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