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Asmita Pawar
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biochemistry
BioAsmita Pawar (Ph.D.) is a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Professor James Spudich (Department of Biochemistry) and Dr. Masataka Kawana (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine) at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Asmita received her M.Sc. in Microbiology from University of Pune in 2006, and Ph.D. in Life Sciences from CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India in 2021. After M.Sc., she served as a lecturer in Dept. of Microbiology and Biotechnology at Gokhale Education Society’s colleges at Nashik, India (affiliated to the University of Pune) and taught various courses to B.Sc. and M.Sc. students. In 2011, she co-founded ‘Centre for Life Sciences’ institute in Nashik, and mentored BS-MS students for advanced studies and teaching careers until 2013.
During her Ph.D., she worked in the lab of Dr. Yogendra Sharma and investigated the Ca2+-binding features of novel microbial proteins with diverse domain architectures like βγ-crystallins, bacterial immunoglobulin-like (Big) domains, and EF-hand domains. She next joined the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur, as a postdoctoral fellow and studied the chaperone properties of human Secretagogin (a Ca2+-sensor protein) until June 2023.
Currently, as a postdoctoral trainee with Dr. Kawana, she is characterizing recombinant human α-cardiac myosin and comparing a few of it's in vitro biochemical properties with recombinant β-cardiac myosins. She is further investigating the molecular effects of a few atrial fibrillation-associated mutations in α-cardiac myosin. Parallelly, she is optimizing experiments to evaluate the binding kinetics of cardiac myosins and Myosin-binding Protein-C (MyBP-C) interactions.
