Professional Activities:

Academic Appointments:

  • 07/08/2013—Present Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
  • 09/01/2012- 06/30/2013 Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
  • 10/01/2004 -08/31/2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
  • 09/01/2001 – 09/30/2004 Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX

Consulting Positions:

Editorial Board

  • Journal of cell Biology and Cell Metabolism

Grant Reviewer

  • 2005: Department of Defense (Army Grant)
  • 2010: International Association of Cancer Research (AICR)
  • 2014: UNMC graduate student fellowship application (Biochemistry study section)

Served as Reviewer

  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • Oncogene
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Nucleic Acid Research
  • British journal of Cancer Research
  • PLos one
  • Carcinogenesis
  • FASEB
  • British Journal of Cancer
  • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
  • Antioxidant and Redox signaling
  • BMC Cancer

Committee Assignments:

  • UNMC Epigenomic Core Advisory Committee 2014-present
  • Graduate Curriculum Committee member, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, UNMC, 2013 - present
  • Information Technology and Communications Committee member, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, UNMC, 2013 - present
  • Seminar Series Committee member, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, UNMC, 2013 – present

Honors:

  • Qualified in National Eligibility Test (NET) as a Junior Research fellow (JRF) in 1991 by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.
  • Qualified in National Eligibility Test (NET) as a Senior Research fellow (SRF) in 1993 by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.
  • Best poster award in Science forum, 2002, organized by Sealy Center for Molecular Science, UTMB, TX
  • Travel award for 8th International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) conference 2004, June 12-16, Boston, MA
  • Young investigator award from American Federation of Aging Research for presenting work in FASEB HDACs meeting at Snowmass, CO, June 2-6, 2007
  • Selected for Marquis Who’s Who in Americain 2010

Memberships/Professional Organizations:

  • American Heart Association

 

Kishor Kumar Bhakat

Associate Professor

 

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