(Personal bibliography)
1. Name : AMIT KUMAR
2. Designation : Sr. Scientist, CSIR-IITR
3. Residential Address : C.S.I.R. Colony, Nirala Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Email address: amit.kumar@iitr.res.in
4. Name and address of Institute
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, M.G. Marg 80, Lucknow, U.P.
5. Permanent address: D-4/6, Ganga Triveni Appartments, Sector-9, Rohini, Delhi
110085, Delhi.
6. Father’s Name : Mr. Jai Bhagwan
7. Date of birth : 10/04/1980
8.
Nationality : Indian
9. Languages
Hindi
Italian
Mother tongue
English Speak, read, write (with proficiency)
Spanish Speak, read (with proficiency)
Speak, read (with proficiency)

(Academic details)
1. Academic Qualifications (Bachelor’s degree onwards)
Name of the College Year of degree Subject(s)
/Institute and University
Kirori Mal College, Delhi
University, Delhi, India awarded
2000 B.Sc. (Analytical Chemistry)
2002 M.Sc Biotechnology Department of
Biotechnology, Bundel
Khand University, Jhansi,
Uttar Pradesh, India
Centro National de
Biotechnologia, Universidad
Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
2009 PhD in Molecular
Biology
Postdoctoral Experience
1. Postdoctoral
Research Fellow
2. Postdoctoral
Research Fellow
IFOM, Institute FIRC of Molecular
Oncology, Via Adamello 16, Milan, Italy
CNB, Calle Darwin 3, UAM,
Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain
March
2010
2009
July
2014
2010
3. Awards/honors
 Awarded Marie Curie Long term Fellowship for post doctoral studies
(December 2010)
  Awarded EMBO Long term Fellowship for post doctoral research (December 2009)
 PhD award ( Extraordinary PhD , 2009) in the Department of Molecular Biology,
Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
4. Research publications in indexed journals
1.
Pérez-García V, Redondo-Muñoz J, Kumar A , Carrera AC. Cell activation-induced phosphoinositide 3-kinase alpha/beta dimerization regulates PTEN activity. Mol Cell Biol.
2014 (In Press).
2.
Kumar A , Mazzanti M, Mistrik M, Kosar M, Beznoussenko GV, Mironov AA, Garre M,
Parazzoli D, Shivashankar GV, Scita G, Bartek J, Foiani M. 2014. ATR mediates a mechanical checkpoint at the nuclear envelope in response to mechanical stress. Cell (In
Press).
3.
Parrillas V, Muñoz LM, López-Holgado B, Kumar A , Lucas P, Rodríguez-Frade JM,

Malumbres M, Carrera AC, vanWely KHM, and Mellado M. 2013 . Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 blocks mitosis in human melanoma cells. Cellular and Molecular Life
Sciences , 70(3):545-58.
4.
Rodrigo Bermejo, Amit Kumar and Marco Foiani. 2012 . Preserving the genome by regulating chromatin association to the nuclear envelope. Trends in Cell Biology , 22 (9);
465- 473.
5.
Kumar A*, Redondo Munopz J*, Perez Garcia V*, Cortes I, Chagoyen M and Carrera AC.
2011 . Nuclear but not cytosolic phosphoinositide 3-kinase beta plays an essential function in cell survival. Mol Cell Biol , 31; 2122-2133. * equal contribution.
6.
Kumar A , Fernadez-Capetillo O and Carrera AC. 2010 . Nuclear phosphoinositide 3-kinase beta controls double stand break DNA repair.
Proc Natl Aci Sci USA , 107; 7491-7496.
7.
Marqués M*, Kumar A *, Poveda AM, Zuluaga S, Hernández C, Jackson S, Pasero P and
Carrera AC. 2009 . Specific function of phosphoinositide 3-kinase beta in the control of
DNA replication. Proc Natl Aci Sci USA , 106; 7525-7530. * equal contribution.
8.
Marqués M, Kumar A , Cortés I, Gonzalez-García A, Hernández C, Moreno-Ortiz MC and
Carrera AC. 2008 . Phosphoinositide 3-kinases p110alpha and p110beta regulate cell cycle entry, exhibiting distinct activation kinetics in G1 phase. Mol Cell Biol, 28; 2803-2814.
9.
Alcázar I, Marqués M, Kumar A , Hirsch E, Wymann M, Carrera AC, Barber DF. 2007 .
Phosphoinositide 3-kinase gamma participates in T cell receptor-induced T cell activation. J
Exp Med 204; 2977-2987.
10.
Kumar A , Carrera AC. 2007 . New functions for PI3K in the control of cell division. Cell
Cycle , 6; 1696-1698.
11.
García Z, Silió V, Marqués M, Cortés I, Kumar A , Hernández C, Checa AI, Serrano A and Carrera AC. 2006. A PI3K activity-independent function of p85 regulatory subunit in control of mammalian cytokinesis. EMBO J , 25; 4740-4751.
12.
Kumar A , Marqués M, Carrera AC. 2006 . Phosphoinositide 3-kinase activation in late G1 is required for c-Myc stabilization and S phase entry. Mol Cell Biol , 26; 9116-9125.
13.
García Z, Kumar A , Marqués M, Cortés I and Carrera AC. 2006 . Phosphoinositide 3kinase controls early and late events in mammalian cell division. EMBO J , 25; 655-661.
14.
Kumar A* , Vaid A*, Syin C and Sharma P. 2004 . PfPKB, a novel protein kinase B-like enzyme from Plasmodium falciparum : I. Identification, characterization, and possible role in parasite development. J Biol Chem , 279; 24255-24264. * equal contribution.