Fatema

Country: United States of America
Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
Research interests: NMR metabolomics, in-cell NMR, small GTPases, cardiac and cancer metabolism
Research overview: I obtained my PhD in Chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Under the guidance of Dr. Robert Powers, I developed new methods to better understand cellular metabolism at the metabolite level and determined how disease states affected the cellular environment. I applied my training on a wide array of disease states: drug resistance in pancreatic cancer cells, antibacterial-resistant infections, and studying cell-cell communication at the metabolite level. I developed the necessary skills required to probe out details of how cellular environments change due to disease progression, stress, and pharmacological interventions. To gain a complete picture of the cellular environment, both at small molecule and macromolecular level, I joined Dr. Angela Gronenborn’s group at the University of Pittsburgh. As a structural biologist my current research involves characterization of protein structures, protein-protein, and protein-ligand interactions.