Rhishita completed her doctoral work at the National Institute of cholera and Enteric Diseases under the mentorship of Dr. N.S. Chatterjee. Her thesis work focused on understanding chitin-dependent regulation of gene expression in Vibrio cholerae, with a specific focus on how this regulation affected expression of the type 6 secretion system (T6SS). Rhishita joined the Oglesby laboratory in April 2020. She is currently studying how iron and PrrF affects T6SS expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Publications:
Chourashi, R., Mondal, M., Sinha, R., Debnath, A., Das, S., Koley, H., Chatterjee, N.S., 2016. Role of a sensor histidine kinase ChiS of Vibrio cholerae in pathogenesis. Int J Med Microbiol. 306, 657-665.
Chourashi, R., Das, S., Dhar D., Okamoto K., Mukhopadhyay AK., Chatterjee, N.S., 2018. Chitin induced T6SS in Vibrio cholerae is dependent on ChiS activation”. Microbiology. 164, 751-763.
Chourashi R and Oglesby AG, 2022, preprint. Pseudomonas aeruginosa mediates PqsA-dependent iron regulation of the RsmY and RsmZ sRNAs in static conditions. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.23.497436.
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