Nagaraj Balasubramanian

About

A cell biologist by training, Prof. Nagaraj Balasubramanian graduated from the University of Mumbai (Bombay) with a bachelor's and master's degree in Microbiology. He worked at the Cancer Research Institute (now ACTREC) at the Tata Memorial Center for his PhD in Biochemistry. He took a break from cancer biology to do a postdoc in mammalian phototransduction at the University of Miami, only to return to cell and cancer biology, focusing on cell adhesion and trafficking as a postdoc first and then a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Dr. Martin Schwartz at the University of Virginia. Prof. Balasubramainan moved to IISER Pune to start his lab in 2010. The research interest of his group includes understanding how cell adhesion regulates trafficking and its implications in cell migratio