Dr Pinki Dey

Dr Pinki Dey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of New South Wales.

Pinki is working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia under Prof. John S. Mattick. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India where she investigated the impact of macromolecular crowding on protein-DNA interactions.  Currently, her research interests are to determine the structure-function relationships of long non-coding RNAs and their mechanisms of action in regulating chromatin architecture, cell differentiation, human development and cognition.

Forefront Group:

  • UNSW/BMC Biology in Dementia Research Group

Expertise:

  • RNA Biology
  • Protein-nucleic acid interactions
  • Biophysics

Affiliate Organisations

University of New South Wales

Neurodegeneration of interest:

AD, FTD, MND, PD, DLB, MSA

Specific Skills:

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Genomics
  • Biological data analysis
  • Molecular biology

Projects:

1. High frequency of intron retention and clustered H3K4me3-marked nucleosomes in short first introns of human long non-coding RNAs, as postdoctoral fellow.

2. Functional analysis of long noncoding RNAs expressed in the brain, as postdoctoral fellow.

3. Deciphering the structure-function relationships of long non-coding RNAs, as postdoctoral fellow.