Avishek received his Bachelor degree in Science in Microbiology from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata under Calcutta University in 2012. After that, he moved to Bangalore to join the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR to do his Integrated MSc-PhD in Biology under the guidance of Dr. Raghu Padinjat, from where he graduated in December, 2020. During his PhD in India, Avishek worked out the biochemical function of a metazoan lipid kinase called PIP4K in the context of regulating cell size, using new LC-MS/MS methods and Drosophila as a model system. 

He joined the Hla lab in April, 2021 for post-doctoral training to expand his training on lipid signalling in metazoans. His initial interest in the Hla lab is to understand the fundamental basis of biased signalling outputs of the Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1PR1) using in vitro cell culture models. 

Publications Highlights: 

Ghosh, A., Raghu, P. (2021). Label-Free Quantification of Phosphoinositides in Drosophila by Mass Spectrometry. Methods Mol Biol

Mathre, S., Reddy, K.B., Ramya, V., Krishnan, H., Ghosh, A., and Raghu, P. (2019). Functional analysis of the biochemical activity of mammalian phosphatidylinositol 5 phosphate 4-kinase enzymes. Biosci Rep

Ghosh A, Sharma S, Shinde D, Ramya V, Raghu P. (2019). A novel mass assay to measure phosphatidylinositol-5-phosphate from cells and tissues. Biosci Rep

Email: avishek.ghosh@childrens.harvard.edu