Jitendra K Meena, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow - Mentor: Trey Westbrook, Ph.D.

(713) 798-6328

Email

meena@bcm.edu

Positions

Postdoctoral Fellow - Mentor: Trey Westbrook, Ph.D.: Biochemistry-Westbrook Lab
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Instructor: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Houston, Texas, United States
A faculty position where I study the targetable vulnerabilities in oncogenic transcriptional programs focusing on RNA decay mechanisms in cancer

Addresses

BCM-Cullen Building (Lab): Room: BCMC-304B
Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Education

BSc from University of Rajasthan, Maharaja's College: 07/2006 - Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; Biology

MSc from Jawaharlal Nehru University: 07/2008 - New Delhi, Delhi, India; Biotechnology

PhD from Friedrich-Schiller University: 04/2015 - Jena, Thuringia, Germany; Molecular Biomedicine

Professional Statement

I received my Phd from Jena, Germany in Rudolph lab. I worked on aneuploidy, stem cell and cancer during my doctoral work. For my postdoctoral research I joined Westbrook lab and now working on discovering new weaknesses posed by oncogenes in human cancers that could be translated to improve current cancer therapies.

Websites

VIICTR Publications List

Selected Publications

Telomerase abrogates aneuploidy-induced telomere replication stress, senescence and cell depletion. " ;
Pubmed PMID: 25820263.
Telomerase stimulates ribosomal DNA transcription under hyperproliferative conditions. " ;
Pubmed PMID: 25118183.
The promoter of human telomerase reverse transcriptase is activated during liver regeneration and hepatocyte proliferation. " ;
Pubmed PMID: 21447332.
CEBP factors regulate telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter activity in whey acidic protein-T mice during mammary carcinogenesis. " ;
Pubmed PMID: 23023397.
Telomere Dysfunction, Chromosomal Instability and Cancer. " ;
Pubmed PMID: 26376872.

Funding

Targeting RNA-decay mechanisms for treating MYC-driven breast cancers: Grant funding from Susan G. Komen