Education
PhD in Medical Microbiology (March 2017 – November 2020)Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
MSc in Molecular Biology & Genetics (September 2014 – June 2016) Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
B. Tech in Biotechnology (August 2010 – June 2014) Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai.
Experience
Postdoctoral Scientist (December 2020 – December 2023)
Department of Molecular Biology, MIMS, Umeå University, Sweden.
Doctoral Researcher (March 2017 – November 2020)
Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Laboratory Research Technician (June 2015 – February 2017)
Department of Medical Microbiology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
Selected Publications
Babu Sait MR, Koliwer-Brandl H, Stewart JA, Swarts BM, Jacobsen M, Ioerger TR, Kalscheuer R. PPE51 mediates uptake of trehalose across the mycomembrane of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sci Rep. 2022 Feb 8;12(1):2097. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-06109-7. PMID: 35136132; PMCID: PMC8826857.
Meier K, Jachmann LH, Türköz G, Babu Sait MR, Pérez L, Kepp O, Valdivia RH, Kroemer G, Sixt BS. The Chlamydia effector CpoS modulates the inclusion microenvironment and restricts the interferon response by acting on Rab35. mBio. 2023 Aug 31;14(4):e0319022. doi: 10.1128/mbio.03190-22. Epub 2023 Aug 2. PMID: 37530528; PMCID: PMC10470785.
Kamariza M, Shieh P, Ealand CS, Peters JS, Chu B, Rodriguez-Rivera FP, Babu Sait MR, Treuren WV, Martinson N, Kalscheuer R, Kana BD, Bertozzi CR. Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum with a solvatochromic trehalose probe. Sci Transl Med. 2018 Feb 28;10(430):eaam6310. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aam6310. PMID: 29491187; PMCID: PMC5985656.
Recent Oral & Poster Presentations
Characterizing the nature of the host cell death during infection with Chlamydia trachomatis.
- National Infection Biology Symposium - October 2023, organized by Swedish Society for microbiologists at Stockholm, Sweden
- Nordic- EMBL partnership conference – September 2022, organized by EMBL – Heidelberg.
- International intracellular bacteria meeting – August 2022, organized by University hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland