Geeta Sharma, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
UCD at Fitzsimons
RC-1 North Tower,
P18-7403F. PO Box 6511, Mail Stop F8307. Tel (303) 724-4535. Fax
(303) 724-4501.
Email geeta.sharma@uchsc.edu
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| Research Positions | Education
| Publications |
RESEARCH
POSITIONS
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics,
UCD: July 1997-present.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC, Cambridge, UK. (Nigel Unwin,
advisor): 1996-1997.
- Graduate student, The Salk Institute ( Charles F. Stevens,
advisor): 1989-1995.
- Staff Research Assistant, UC San Diego (W.A. Harris, advisor):
1988-1989.
- Junior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Science (T.
Ramasarma, advisor): 1986-1987
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EDUCATION
- 1996: EMBO practical course: Current methods in membrane
protein research, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 1995: Ph.D, Neuroscience, UC San Diego.
- 1986: M.Sc., Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
- 1984: B.Sc., Biochemistry major, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
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PUBLICATIONS
- Khandekar, P., Munshi, A., Sinha, S., Sharma, G.,,
Kapoor, A., and Talwar, G.P. (1986). Construction of genomic
libraries of mycobacterial origin. Identification of recombinants
encoding mycobacterial specific proteins. Int. J. Leprosy.,
54, 416-422.
- Bettler, B., Egjeborg, J., Sharma, G., Petch, G. et al.
(1992). Cloning of a putative glutamate receptor: a low affinity
kainate binding subunit. Neuron, 8, 257-265.
- Brose, N., Huntley, G., Stern-bach, Y., Sharma, G.,,
Morrison, H. and Heinemann, S. (1994). Differential assembly of
coexpressed glutamate receptor subunits in neurons of rat cerebral
cortex. J. Biol. Chem., 269, 16780-16784.
- Sharma, G., and Stevens C.F. (1994). Biophysical and
structural analysis of the magnesium block of the recombinant NMDA
receptors. Soc. Neurosci Abs., 108.7
- Sharma, G., and Stevens, C.F. (1996). A mutation that
alters the magnesium block of NMDA receptor channels. Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci., 93, 9259-9263.
- Sharma, G., and Stevens C.F. (1996). Interactions
between two divalent ion binding sites in N-methyl-D-aspatate
recptor channels. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 93,
14170-14175.
- Sharma, G., and Vijayaraghavan, S. (2001). Nicotinic cholinergic signaling in hippocampal astrocytes involves calcium-indiced calcium release from intracellular stores. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 98, 4148-4153.
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