Advanced Concentration

Molecular Cell Biology

Mentor

Satya Narayan, Ph.D.

Department

Anatomy & Cell Biology, UF Shands Cancer Center

Enrolled 

August 2003

Lab Room

Lab Phone

E-mail

sconnors@ufl.edu

Education

B.S., Biology, Georgia Southern University

Dissertation Research

Connors, S.K., R. Basulu, C.N. Kundu, A.S. Jaiswal, C.G. Gairola, S. Narayan. C/EBPβ-mediated transcriptional regulation of bcl-xl gene expression in human breast epithelial cells in response to cigarette smoke condensate treatment (Manuscript in preparation).

Aruna S. Jaiswal, Ritu Aneja, Shahnjayla Connors, Harish C. Joshi, Asha S. Multani, Sen Pathak and Satya Narayan. Increased mitotic arrest and apoptosis of cigarette smoke condensate-transformed versus normal human breast epithelial cells in response to 9-Br-Noscapine (Manuscript in preparation).

Jaiswal, A.S., Connors, S.K., Armas, M.L , Panda, H., and Narayan, S. Gene Environment Interactions: APC, DNA Damage, and Repair, and Human Health. In Encyclopedia of Environmental Health. Ed: Zhou, J., Elsevier Ltd, UK, 2007 (Invited encyclopedia article in press).

Jaiswal, A.S., Armas, M.L. Connors, S.K., Panda, H., and Narayan, S. Exposure to Environmental Mutagens: APC and Colon Cancer.  In The Environment and Cancer: Gene-Environment Interactions and Individual Susceptibility. Ed: Roy, D; Springer Sciences, Humana Press, NY 2007 (Invited book chapter in press).

S.K. Connors, R. Basulu, C.N. Kundu, A.S. Jaiswal, C.G. Gairola, S. Narayan. C/EBPβ regulates bcl-xl gene expression in human breast epithelial cells after treatment with cigarette smoke condensate. University of Florida, College of Medicine Research Day, Gainesville, Florida April 23, 2008.

S.K. Connors, R. Basulu, C.N. Kundu, A.S. Jaiswal, C.G. Gairola, S. Narayan. C/EBPβ regulates bcl-xl gene expression in human breast epithelial cells after treatment with cigarette smoke condensate.  American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA 2008

A.S. Jaiswal, R. Aneja, A.S., Multani, S.K. Connors, H.C. Joshi, S. Pathak, S. Narayan Treatment of 9-bromonoscapine induces irreversible mitotic arrest and apoptosis in cigarette smoke condensate-transformed human breast epithelial cells. University of Florida, College of Medicine Research Day, Gainesville, Florida. April 23, 2008.

A.S. Jaiswal, R. Aneja, A.S., Multani, S.K. Connors, H.C. Joshi, S. Pathak, S. Narayan Treatment of 9-bromonoscapine induces irreversible mitotic arrest and apoptosis in cigarette smoke condensate-transformed human breast epithelial cells. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. April 12-16, 2008.

S.K. Connors, R. Basulu, C.N. Kundu, A.S. Jaiswal, C.G. Gairola, S. Narayan. Upregulation of bcl-xl in Cigarette Smoke Condensate-treated Spontaneously Immortalized Human Breast Epithelial Cells. The 47th Annual American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Meeting, Washington, D.C. December 1-5, 2007

American Society for Cell Biology Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) Travel Award 2007. To attend the 47th Annual American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, December 1-5, 2007.

T32 Training Grant in Cancer Biology, University of Florida Shands Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida.  May 2005-May 2006.