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Reviewer
Sumeet Nayak
  • Senior Scientist, KSQ Therapeutics, Inc
Research fields
  • Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
Personal information

Education

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2020

Lab information

Sharon Cantor Lab
https://www.umassmed.edu/mccb/cantorlab/

Research focus

DNA damage and repair, Replication stress and stress response, Cancer therapy response

Publications

• Nayak, S., and Cantor, S. B. S1 nuclease fiber assay. Bio-protocol (2020).
• Nayak, S., and Cantor, S. B. Immunofluorescence staining protocol to detect ssDNA (CldU) and active replication (EdU). Bio-protocol (2020).
• Nayak, S., Calvo, J.A., Cong, K., Peng, M., Berthiaume, E., Jackson, J., Zaino, A.M., Vindigni, A., Hadden, M.K., and Cantor, S.B. Inhibition of the translesion synthesis polymerase REV1 exploits replication gaps as a cancer vulnerability. Science Advances (2020).
• Awate, S., Sommers, J.A., Datta, A., Nayak, S., Bellani, M.A., Yang, O., Dunn, C.A., Nicolae, C.M., Moldovan, G-L., Seidman, M.M., Cantor, S.B., and Brosh, Jr. R.M. FANCJ compensates for RAP80 deficiency and suppresses genomic instability induced by interstrand cross-links. Nucleic Acid Research (2020).
• Panzarino, N.J., Krais, J., Peng, M., Mosqueda, M., Nayak, S., Bond, S., Calvo, J., Cong, K., Doshi, M., Bere, M., et al. Replication gaps underlie BRCA-deficiency and therapy response. (2019). bioRxiv, 781955. (Under revision at Cancer Research).
• Cong, K., Kousholt, A.N., Peng, M., Panzarino, N.J., Lee, W.T.C., Nayak, S., Krais, J., Calvo, J., Bere, M., Rothenberg, E., et al. PARPi synthetic lethality derives from replication-associated single-stranded DNA gaps. (2019). bioRxiv, 781989. (In preparation).
• Fuhrmann, C., Fenn, S.L., Hidalgo, D., Horowitz, B.B., Loring, H.S., Nayak, S., Spears, M.E., Weaver, G.C., & Lane, M.E. Creating the “new normal”: Career development embedded into the Ph.D. curriculum for all trainees. Book chapter “BEST: Implementing Career Development Activities for Biomedical Research Trainees (2020).
• Peng, M., Cong, K., Panzarino, N. J., Nayak, S., Calvo, J., Deng, B., Zhu, L. J., Morocz, M., Hegedus, L., Haracska, L., and Cantor, S. B. Opposing Roles of FANCJ and HLTF Protect Forks and Restrain Replication During Stress. Cell reports (2018).
• Cantor, S.B., and Nayak, S. FANCJ at the FORK. Mutation research (2016).
• Jacob, S., Nayak, S., Chaudhari, U.K., Joshi, D., Vundinti, B.R., Fernandes, G., Barai, R.S., Kholkute, S.D., and Sachdeva, G. A triad of telomerase, androgen receptor and early growth response 1 in prostate cancer cells. Cancer Biology and Therapy (2016).
• Jacob, S., Nayak,S., Fernandes, G., Barai, R.S., Menon, S., Chaudhari, U.K., Kholkute, S.D., and Sachdeva, G. Androgen receptor as a regulator of ZEB2 expression and its implications in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in prostate cancer. Endocrine Related Cancer (2014).
• Bhagwat, S.R., Redij, T., Phalnikar, K., Nayak, S., Iyer, S., Gadkar, S., Chaudhari, U.K., Kholkute, S.D., and Sachdeva, G. Cell Surfactomes of Two Endometrial Epithelial Cell lines that differ in their Adhesiveness to Embryonic Cells. Molecular Reproduction & Development (2014).
• Bhagwat, S.R., Chandrashekar, D.S., Kakar, R., Davuluri, S., Bajpai, A.K., Nayak, S., Bhutada, S., Acharya, K., and Sachdeva, G. Endometrial Receptivity: A Revisit to Functional Genomics Studies on Human Endometrium and Creation of HGEx-ERdb. PLoS one (2013).
• Navalakhe, R.M., Jagtap, D.D., Nayak, S., Nandedkar, T.D., and Mahale, S.D. Effect of FSH Receptor-Binding Inhibitor-8 on FSH-Mediated Granulosa Cell Signaling and Proliferation. Chemical Biology and Drug Design (2013).
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