Editorial Work:
Grant Review
2007 - Present: The Research Grants Council (RGC,Hong Kong, China (http://www.ugc.edu.hk/RGC/)
2011 (Adhoc): Diabetes UK (http://www.diabetes.org.uk/)
2013-Present: Reviewer (Member) of research grant proposals for Department of Veterans Affairs scientific merit review panel for epidemiology– IRG/SRG code: Special Emphasis-Research on Clinical Application of Genetics (SPLC)
2013-15: Center for Public Health Genomics (Wake Forest School Of Medicine), Intramural grant review
2014: Reviewer (temporary member) Clinical and Integrative Diabetes and Obesity (CIDO) Study Section, Center for Scientific Reviews, National Institute of Health (NIH), US (Feb. and Oct. 2014)
2015: Temporary member, Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2015/05 ZDK1 GRB-2 (M3) 1 meeting, Center for Scientific Reviews, National Institute of Health (NIH), Reviewer of Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30) applications
2015: Temporary member, Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 EMNR-R(02), Center for Scientific Reviews, National Institute of Health (NIH).
2015: Member, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities- Special Emphasis Panel: ZMD1 MLS (11) NIMHD TransdisciplinaryCollaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research Focused on Precision Medicine (U54)
2016: NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5), Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2016/08 ZRG1 RPHB-W (53) R.
2017: NIH/NHLBI Heart, Lung and Blood Diseases and Sleep Disorders Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2017/08 ZRG1 PSE-V (56) R; NIH Population science and epidemiology (PSE) Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2018/01 ZRG1 PSE-P (02) M. Epidemiology of Environmental Exposures, Diet, Biomarkers, and Genetics in Chronic Disease; and Reviewer of the Translational Pilot Award with a Special Emphasis on Diabetes. The Diabetes Research Center (DRC) and the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2018: NIH/NHLBI Heart, Lung and Blood Diseases and Sleep Disorders the Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2018/05 ZRG1 CVRS-G (56) 1. (Virtual Meeting).
2019: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and Social Solutions International (SSI) Anonymization Study. 2017/05 ZCA1 SRO-9 (01) 1 (EMNR IRG)
2019: MRC: Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board, Medical Research Council, UK Research & Innovation Corporate Funding Service (Je-s-UKRI), United Kingdom, (Reviewer December 2019).
2020: NIH: Clinical and Integrative Diabetes and Obesity (CIDO) Study Section (Temporary member; Feb. and Oct. 2020)
2020: North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC): Reviewer of pilot grant application
2021: NIH: RFA-RM-20-013 and 020: NIH Transformative and Emergency Transformative Research (R01) Awards Review (04/07- 04/08/21): Special Emphasis Panel: 2021/05 ZRG1 BST-J (70) R (Reviewer February 2021)
2022: NIH: 2022/10 GHD - Genetics of Health and Disease Study Section (Reviewer June 2022)
2024: NIH/ NIDDK Special Emphasis Panel: ZDK1 GRB-Q (M3): NIDDK RC2 Application Review [High Impact, Interdisciplinary Science in NIDDK Research Areas] (Panel Member, March 2024)
Editorial Board
2022-2024 term: Editorial Board Member: Diabetes (American Diabetes Association)
2014 - : Associate Editor BMC Medical Genomics
2014- : Review Editor Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences-Molecular Diagnostics
2011 - : Review Editor Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology
Manuscript Review
2023 (Adhoc): The American Journal of Human Genetics: Published by American Society of Human Genetics (Cell press)
2023 (Adhoc): Genome Medicine: BioMed Central: Springer Nature
2020-present (Adhoc) : Diabetes care ( journal published by American Diabetes Association)
2020 (adhoc) :Aging: Aging (Albany NY) or Aging-US
2020 (adhoc) :Physiological Genomics: Published by APS
2019 (Adhoc) :American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
2019 (Adhoc) :Frontiers in Genetics, Published by Frontiers, Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 (Adhoc) : GENE: Published by Elsevier
2018 (Adhoc) : Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications
2018, 2023, 2024 (Adhoc) : Nature Genetics
2017 (Adhoc) : Endocrine Research, Taylor & Francis publication
2015 (Adhoc) : BBA - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, Elsevier press
2015 (Adhoc) : British Journal of Nutrition, Cambridge University Press, UK
2015 (Adhoc) : Journal of Diabetes research (Hindwai publication)
2015 (Adhoc) : Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers.)
2015 (Adhoc) : FEBS Open Bio (published by Elsevier)
2012 (Adhoc) : Journal of Molecular Endocrinology (Published by Society of Endocrinology, UK)
2012- present : PloS One
2012 (Adhoc) : OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology (published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc )
2012 (Adhoc) : Molecular Biology Reports (published by Springer)
2011 (Adhoc) : Molecular Genetics and Metabolism (published by Elsevier)
2011 (Adhoc) : Diabetologia (published by Springer)
2011 (Adhoc) : American Journal of Human Biology (published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc)
2011 (Adhoc) : Diabetic Medicine (published by Diabetes, UK; Wiley-Blackwell)
2010 (Ad hoc) : Antioxidants & Redox Signalling (published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc.)
2010 (Ad hoc) : Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry (published by Karger)
2008 (Adhoc) : Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (published by Springer)
2007 (Adhoc) : Genes and Immunity (published by Nature publication group, UK).
2007 (Adhoc) : BMC Medical Genetics (published by BMC group, UK).
2007 -present : Obesity (published by NASSO, The Obesity Society, USA)
2006 -Present : Diabetes ( journal published by American Diabetes Association)
2005 - Present : Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (published by the Endocrine Society, USA)
2005 - Present : Endocrinology (published by The Endocrine Society, USA)
Teaching Activities:
Postgraduate Students
2021: Teacher, Endocrinology Fellowship Program (postgraduate program; Course Director: Dr Kristen G. Hairston), Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology 2020-2021 Fellows' Core curriculum series. Teaching: Genetics for Precision Medicine of Diabetes mellitus (1.5Hrs)
Graduate Students
2020-21: Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC . Role: Teacher. Masters and Graduate Program
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences B (MCB 702) Spring 2020 and 2021. Teaching in block 1: Cell signaling and cell-cell communication and Preparation and evaluation of Exam1 (8-10hrs)
Link for talks:
1: Insulin/leptin crosstalk with population genetics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSwt2BtMunc
2: G-protein coupled receptors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28Scr-vsxo
3: NF-KB signaling, signaling and chromatin structure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOck6B-iDaU
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences B (MCB 742) Spring 2020-2024. Molecular Genetics and Genomics of Human Disease. Teaching Transcriptomics (2hrs)
Human Molecular Genetics (MOGN734) Spring 2020 -2022. Teaching Application of omics technologies to diabetes research (2hrs)
2005: Guest lecturer, Human genetics, ACBR, Delhi University
2004 - 2005: Teaching PhD student orientation course work, Gene expression in time and space, signal transduction and human genetics, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, CSIR, Delhi
Undergraduate Students
2000: Lecturer, Zoology, Malda Government College, Malda, India
MENTORING:
Postdoctoral Fellows
2010-2013 : Ashis Mondal, PhD; Postdoctoral research fellow
2015 January-December : Yuguo Zhang, PhD; Postdoctoral research fellow
Summer Research Trainee:
2019 (July-August): Hayat Alkadir ; Harvard University; A.B. Candidate in History and Science with Secondary in Global Health and Health Policy (rising sophomore during training); Completed a summer research project titled: Phenotypic and Biological Differences Between Glucose Response Classes in African-Americans
Member of mentoring program:
2019 July-Current : Mentor, Early Career Women Faculty Mentoring Program; Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS); Wake forest School Of Medicine
Professional Society Memberships:
International
2007 - Present: American Diabetes Association
2005 - 2011: International chromosome 1q Type 2 Diabetes Consortium
2002 - Present: American Society of Human Genetics
National
1999 - Present: Indian Science Congress Association
1996 - 1997: Indian Society of Human Genetics
Local
2012- :Member of the 2012-2014 Cohort of the Translational Science Institute’s Research Academy, WFSM
2013- :Member, Center for Public Health Genomics, WFSM
2015- Present: Member, Center for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, WFSM
2017- :Member, Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention (CHAAP), WFSM.
2018- : Member, Center for Precision Medicine, WFSM
Committee Assignments:
2022 July-Present: Professional/Academic Dismissal: Appeals Committee , WFSM
2018 July-present: Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), WFSM
2017 July-present: Conflict of Interest Review Committee (CIRC), WFSM
2013-2018 July: PhD Thesis Committee member for Mary Stromberg, Graduate Student, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Wake forest School of Medicine
2010: Member of the board of examiners for adjudication upon the thesis submitted for the PhD degree, Departmet of Zoology, University of Calcutta , India.
2009: Judge, Student Research Week, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas
2008-2009: Judge, Science Fair Projects, LISA academy middle and high school, Little Rock, Arkansas
2000: Joint Secretary, International seminar:“Haemoglobinopathies South Asia: problems and prevention", Calcutta, India
Other
Symposium Organizer:
Organization: International seminar on “Haemoglobinopathies South Asia: problems and prevention" organized by Vivekananda Institute of Medical Science, Calcutta, India. Title: Joint Secretary Date: December, 2000 Place: Calcutta, India
Moderating Sessions in conference:
Platform session moderator at the 2023 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting, at Washington DC: Session 100 - Go beyond GWAS in type 2 diabetes, obesity and related metabolic disorders. Session Date/Time: 11/4/2023 10:30 AM -12:00 PM ET
Research Judge:
1) Organization: College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little rock, Arkansas. Student Research Week
Title: Judge, Student Research Week Date: 2009 Place: Little Rock, AR
2) Organization: LISA academy middle and high school
Title: Judge, Science Fair Projects Date: 2008-2009 Place: Little Rock, AR
3) Judge: American Society of Human Genetics ASHG’s DNA Day Essay Contest; March 2019, April 2020, and March 2021 .
4) Organization: Surgical Sciences, Wake forest School of Medicine
Title: Judge, Residents’ and Fellows’ Research Day Date: November, 2019 and 2020 Place: Winston-Salem, NC
Editing Newsletter:
2019 May-Present: Edit Quarterly newsletter for Center for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, WFSM
Interview Panelist:
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Graduate program (MCB PhD) Recruiting: Interview PhD candidates. Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC. January 2019.
Private Foundation Review Panel:
Diabetes UK: Reviewer (Adhoc, 2011)
WFSM intramural: Center for Public Heath Genomics, Intramural RFA review committee.
Wake forest school of medicine. (2014-2015)
University of Washington: Reviewer of the Translational Pilot Award with a Special Emphasis on
Diabetes. The Diabetes Research Center (DRC) and the Institute of
Translational Health Sciences (ITHS),
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Reviewer, 2017)
North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC): Reviewer, Pilot grant application July, 2020.
Wake Forest School of Medicine-Medical Student Research Program (MSRP): Reviewer of the student applications for 2023 summer Medical Student Research Program. (February, 2023).
University of Sharjah, UAE: international Reviewer for University of Sharjah Research Fund application. Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies. (April, 2023)
External Reviewer of Thesis for PhD degree:
Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India. November, 2010
National Center for Cell Sciences, Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule University, Pune, India, September2021
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India, April, 2023