Dr. Jyotirmoy Banerjee

Dr Jyotirmoy Banerjee

 

Current Designation & Contact Details:  

Additional Professor

Room No. 11, 5^th Floor,

Porta Cabin, Teaching Block

Department of Biophysics,

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India

Tel: 91-11-26549324

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Recent Employment Details:  

July 2023-Till Date

Additional Professor, Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.  

July 2020-June 2023

Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.

 May 2017-June 2020

Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.

 

Brief Area of Research: 

Cellular electrophysiological studies to understand function of ion channels of central nervous system and investigating regulation of synaptic transmission in drug-resistant epilepsy pathologies at cellular and molecular level.

 

Awards and Honors:

• AIIMS Excellence Research Award in Basic Sciences for the year 2021.

• AIIMS Excellence Research Award in Basic Sciences for the year 2020.

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Recent Selected Publications (*As Corresponding Author):  

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=81uRX7kAAAAJ&hl=en

1. Dubey V, Roy A, Dixit AB, Tripathi M, Pandey S, Jian S, Chandra PS, Banerjee J*. Dendritic reorganization in the hippocampus, anterior temporal lobe, and frontal neocortex of lithium-pilocarpine induced Status Epilepticus (SE). 2023, Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 133: 102319. doi: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2023.102329.  

2. Kumar K, Dubey V, Zaidi SS, Tripathi M, Siraj F, Sharma MC, Chandra PS, Doddamani R, Dixit AB, Banerjee J*. RNA Sequencing of Intraoperative Peritumoral Tissues Reveals Potential Pathways Involved in Glioma-Related Seizures. 2023, Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 73:437-447. doi: 10.1007/s12031-023-02125-y. 

3. Dubey V, Dixit AB, Banerjee J*. Tempol Suppresses Generalized seizures in animal model of epilepsy. 2023, Neurology India, 71:412-413. doi: 10.4103/0028-3886.375411.  

4. Sharma D, Tripathi M, Doddamani R, Sharma MC, Lalwani S, Chandra PS, Dixit AB, Banerjee J*. Correlation of Age at Seizure Onset with GABA_A receptor subunit and Chloride Co-transporter configuration in Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD). 2023, Neuroscience Letters, 796: 137065. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137065. (IF-3.1). 

5. Chakraborty A, Dey S, Kumar K, Dixit AB, Tripathi M, Sharma MC, Chandra PS, Banerjee J*. Novel variants in GABA_A receptor subunits: A possible association with benzodiazepine resistance in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. 2023, Epilepsy Research, 189:107056. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2022.107056. 

6. Kumar K, Banerjee Dixit A, Tripathi M, Dubey V, Siraj F, Sharma MC, Lalwani S, Chandra PS, Banerjee J*. Transcriptomic profiling of nonneoplastic cortical tissues reveals epileptogenic mechanisms in dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors. 2022, Functional & Integrative Genomics; 22:905-917. doi: 10.1007/s10142-022-00869-1.  

7. Bera A, Srivastava A, Dubey V, Dixit AB, Tripathi M, Sharma MC, Lalwani S, Chandra PS, Banerjee J*. Altered hippocampal expression and function of cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2) in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). 2022, Neurological Research; 44: 748-753.doi: 10.1080/01616412.2022.2051131. 

8. Dubey V, Dey S, Dixit AB, Tripathi M, Chandra PS, Banerjee J*. Differential glutamate receptor expression and function in the hippocampus, anterior temporal lobe and neocortex in a pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy. 2022, Experimental Neurology;347:113916. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2021.113916. 

9. Dey S, Banerjee Dixit A, Tripathi M, Doddamani RS, Sharma MC, Lalwani S, Chandra PS, Banerjee J*. Altered hippocampal kynurenine pathway metabolism contribute to hyperexcitability in human mesial temporal lobe epilepsy-hippocampal sclerosis. 2021, British Journal of Pharmacology; 178:3959-3976.doi: 10.1111/bph.15534. 

10. Kumar S, Shanker OR, Kumari N, Tripathi M, Chandra PS, Dixit AB, Banerjee J*. Neuromodulatory effects of SARS-CoV2 infection: Possible therapeutic targets. 2021, Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets; 25:509-519.doi: 10.1080/14728222.2021.1953475.  

11. Banerjee J, Srivastava A, Sharma D, Dey S, Tripathi M, Sharma MC, et al. Differential regulation of glutamatergic activity in the hippocampus and anterior temporal lobe by cyclin dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS). 2021, Neuroscience Letters; 761: 136096. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136096.  

12. Dey S, Doddamani R, Dixit AB, Tripathi M, Sharma MC, Chandra PS, Banerjee J*. Altered spontaneous glutamatergic and GABAergic activity in the peritumoral cortex of low-grade gliomas presenting with history of seizures. 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience; 15:689769. doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.689769 

13. Sharma D, Dixit AB, Dey S, Tripathi M, Doddamani R, Sharma MC, Lalwani S, Gurjar HK, Chandra PS, Banerjee J*. Increased levels of α4-containing GABA_A receptors in focal cortical dysplasia: A possible cause of benzodiazepine resistance. 2021, Neurochemistry International; 148:105084.doi: 10.1016/j.neuint.2021.105084 

14.Banerjee J*, Dey S, Dixit AB, Doddamani R, Sharma MC, Garg A, et al. GABA_A Receptor-Mediated Epileptogenicity in Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) Depends on Age at Epilepsy Onset. 2020, Front Cell Neurosci; 14:562811.doi: 10.3389/fncel.2020.562811. 

15. Banerjee J*, Dey S, Dixit AB, Tripathi M, Doddamani R, Sharma MC, et al. α7 nicotinic receptors contributes to glutamatergic activity in the hippocampus of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS). 2020, J Neural Transmission; 127:1441-1446.doi: 10.1007/s00702-020-02239-2.  

16. Banerjee J, Tripathi M, Chandra PS, Dixit AB. Do SARS-CoV2 viral proteins have neuromodulatory properties? 2020, Neurol India; 68:274-275.doi: 10.4103/0028-3886.283760.  

17. Srivastava A, Dixit AB, Paul D, Tripathi M, Sarkar C, Chandra PS, Banerjee J* (2017). Comparative analysis of cytokine/chemokine regulatory networks in patients with hippocampal sclerosis (HS) and focal cortical dysplasia (FCD). Scientific Reports, 7:15904.doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16041-w. 

18. Banerjee J*, Dixit AB, Srivastava A, Ramanujam B, Kakkar A, Sarkar C, Tripathi M & Chandra PS (2017). Altered glutamatergic tone reveals two distinct resting state networks at the cellular level in hippocampal sclerosis. Scientific Reports, 7:319.doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00358-7.