Investigators and Program Directors

Dilip Nag

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Developmental Genetics and Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences

Ph.D., University of Calcutta, India
Postdoctoral training, Washington University, St. Louis, University of Chicago and University of North Carolina

Select Publications

• Jankowski, C., F. Nasar and D. K. Nag. 2000. Meiotic instability of CAG repeat tracts occurs by double-strand break repair in yeast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97: 2134-2139.
• Nasar, F., C. Jankowski and D. K. Nag. 2000. Long palindromic sequences induce double-strand breaks during meiosis in yeast. Mol. Cell. Biol. 20: 3449-3458.
• Nag, D.K., Koonce, M.P. and Axelrod, J. (1997) SSP1, a gene necessary for proper completion of meiotic divisions and spore formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17:7029-7039.
• Nag, D.K. and Kurst, A. (1997) A 140-bp-long palindromic sequence induces double-strand breaks during meiosis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 146:835-846.
• Nag, D.K., Scherthan, H., Rockmill, B., Bhargava, J. and Roeder, G.S. (1995) Heteroduplex formation and homolog pairing in yeast meiotic mutants. Genetics 141:75-86
• Nag, D.K. and Petes, T.D. (1993) Physical detection of heteroduplexes during meiotic recombination in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell Biol. 13:2324-2331.
• Nag, D.K., White, M.A. and Petes, T.D. (1989) Palindromic sequences in heteroduplex DNA inhibit mismatch repair in yeast. Nature 340:318-320.

Contact Information

E-Mail: dilip.nag@wadsworth.org.