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Dr. Nidhi Gadura |
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I joined QCC as an Asst. Professor in January 2007. I have been part of CUNY ever since I first started college. I completed by B.S.(Honors) at York College, CUNY and then went on to get a Masters degree at Queens College where I continued to finish my Ph.D. as part of the Graduate Center of CUNY. I have been teaching at Queens College and York College since 1999 at both undergraduate as well as graduate levels. I am really excited about becoming a part of QCC faculty. I enjoy teaching all the hardworking students here. It reminds me of my undergraduate days at York College, where I was always working full time and taking classes at night. Besides teaching, I continue to do research at Queens College in collaboration with Dr. Michels. We are interested in using Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Baker’s yeast) as a model system to study the functional relationship between human PKCα and Hsp90. Previous work has shown increased levels of PKCα lead to metastasis in breast cancer cells. Therefore it is of outmost importance that we understand upstream regulators as well as downstream targets of PKCα. I have had the pleasure of training QCC undergraduates since Summer ‘07 as part of NIH-Bridges program run by Dr. Schneider at QCC. I am also a faculty mentor and Queens College liaison for NSF-STEP program run by Dr. Gorelick. I enjoy training Queensborough students all modern molecular and cell biology techniques. Research experience plays a pivotal role in developing students who plan to pursue higher education degrees. If you are interested in research please contact me at NGadura@qcc.cuny.edu
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Gadura, N. and C.A. Michels, 2006. Sequences in the N-terminal cytoplasmic domain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae maltose permease are required for vacuolar degradation but not glucose-induced internalization. Curr Genet. 50:101-14. Gadura N, Robinson LC, Michels CA, 2006. Glc7-Reg1 phosphatase signals to Yck1,2 casein kinase 1 to regulate transport activity and glucose-induced inactivation of Saccharomyces maltose permease. Genetics 172:1427-39.
Lewis LA, Gadura N, Greene M, Saby R, Grindley ND, 2001. The basis of asymmetry in IS2 transposition. Mol Microbiology 42:887-901.
Invited to review Human Genetics Concepts and Applications, 7th Edition, Ricki Lewis, McGraw Hill textbook. GRANTS RECEIVED Todd Holden and Nidhi Gadura CUNY Community College Collaborative Research Incentive 2008-2009 ($30,000)
The major goals of this project are to use optical circular dichroism and bioinformatics analysis as a tool to study antibiotic induced evolutionary changes in E.coli gyrase.
Nidhi Gadura Copper Development Association 8/25/08 – 8/24/09 ($8,800)
The major goal of this project is to investigate the mechanism of copper-surface induced toxicity in E.coli. |
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222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, NY 11364 Biology Dept. Phone # 718-631-6336 Dr.Gadura Office # 718-631-6332 Email: NGadura@qcc.cuny.edu |
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Assistant Professor Department of Biological Science and Geology Phone 718-631-6332 Email: NGadura@qcc.cuny.edu |