BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

NAME

Bantval Surendra Baliga, Ph.D.

POSITION TITLE

Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Biochemistry

EDUCATION/TRAINING:

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

Poona University, Poona, India

B.Sc.

1955

Chemistry, Physics, Botany and Zoology
Poona University, Poona, India

B.S. (Hon)

1956

Chemistry
Poona University, Poona, India

M.Sc.

1958

Biochemistry
Indian Institute of Science, India

Ph.D.

1963

Biochemistry

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1963-1964 Postdoctoral Fellow, University Grant Commission, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

1965-1966 Post Doctoral Fellow, United States Public Health Service, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

1966-1972 Research Associate, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1972-1978 Senior Research Associate, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

BS Baliga, D Kitchens and S Kuvibidila. The effects of iron deficiency and iron repletion on protein kinase C activity in mice; Implication on impaired lymphocyte proliferation associated with iron deficiency. AM J CLINICAL NUTRITION (1998).

S Kuvibidila, BS Baliga, RP Warrier, and RM Suskind. Iron deficiency reduces the hydrolysis of cell membrane phospholipid during the early phase of splenic lymphocyte activation in C57BL/6 mice. J NUTRITION (1998).

A Ferry, BS Baliga, C Monteiro and B Pace. g -Globin gene silencing in primary erythroid cultures: An inhibitory role of IL-6. J BIOL CHEM 1997; 272:20030-20037.

YM Yang, B Pace, D Kitchens, A Shah, SK Ballas, and BS Baliga. BFU-E colony growth in response to hydroxyurea: Correlation between in vitro and in vivo fetal hemoglobin induction. AM J HEMATOLOGY 1997; 56:252-258.

S Kuvibidila, BS Baliga, RP Warrier and RM Suskind. Reduced hydrolysis of cell mem ogenitors and their DNA-synthesis stage to Fetal Hemoglobin Levels in Hydroxyurea treated patients with Sickle Cell Anemia. AM J HEMATOLOGY 1994; 46:259-263.

BS Baliga, M Mankad, AK Shah and VN Mankad. Mechanism of Growth and Differentiation of Human Erythroleukemic Cell Line K562 by Hemin. CELL PROLIFERATION 1993; 26: 519-529.

BS Baliga, KK Phillips, Z Aliabadi and VN Mankad. A Novel Nuclear Protein which binds to Gd and Ad globin promoters and modulate hemoglobin synthesis in K562 cells. J CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 49: 394-398.

BS Baliga, K Isoyama, G Longmore, YM Yang, AK Shah, VN Mankad. A Simple Method for Hemoglobin Measurement In Cell Culture System. BLOOD CELLS 1992;18:187-193.

K Isoyama, BS Baliga, AK Shah and VN Mankad. Relationship Between Cell-cycle State of erythroid Progenitors and Fetal Hemoglobin Synthesis. AMERICAN J HEMATOLOGY 1992; 39: 65-66.

Kuvibidila, BS Baliga, KK Murthy. Impaired protein kinase-C activation as one of the possible mechanisms of reduced lymphocyte proliferation in iron deficiency. AMERICAN J CLINICAL NUTRITION 1991; 54: 944-950(66).

K Isoyama, BS Baliga, AK Shah and VN Mankad. Increase Response of Erythroid progenitors to Interleukin-3 in Sickle Cell Anemia: CFU-E like behavior of circulating erythroid progenitors in liquid culture. AMERICAN J HEMATOLOGY 1991; 38:101-107.

LJ Sindel, BS Baliga, A Bendich and VN Mankad. Nutritional deficiencies associated with vitamin E deficiency in Sickle cell patients: The effect of vitamin E supplementation. NUTRITION RESEARCH 1990; 10: 267-274.

BS Baliga, SM Borowitz and SM Barnard. Modulation of epidermal growth factor receptors by phorbol receptor in small intestinal crypt cells. BIOCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL 1990;20 (1):161-168.

LJ Sindel, JF Dishuck, BS Baliga and VN Mankad. Micronutrient Deficiency and Neutrophil Function in Sickle cell Disease. THE NEWYORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1989;844:108-115.

BS Baliga, SM Borowitz and SM Barnard. Effects of epidermal growth factor and phorbol ester on proliferation of small intestine epithelial cells in culture. BIOCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL 1989; 19:1045-1056.

BS Baliga, LJ Sindel, CJ Smith, LD Jenkins and VM Mankad. Chemiluminescence response of polymorphonuclear leukocytes from sickle cell patients. NUTRITION REPORTS INTERNATIONAL 1989; 39: 761-771.

JN Walterspiel, BS Baliga, EC Toren and GD McIntire. Significant loss of amphotericin-B (AMB) bioactivity (BIAC) after passage through iv lines. (Twenty-eighth Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Los Angeles, CA, 1988, Oral Presentation).

FO Bastian, BS Baliga and HM Pollock. Evaluation of 3H-thymidine uptake method for studying growth of spiroplasmas under various conditions. J CLIN MICROBIOL. 1988; 26:2124-2126.

BS Baliga and SM Borowitz. Effects of growth and differentiation inducing factors on protein kinase-C in small intestinal epithelial cells. BIOCHEM BIOPHYS RES COMMUN 1988; 154:278-284.

EA Manci, BS Baliga, WC Isphording and WR Blackburn. Sampling the human placenta for elemental analysis. LAB INVEST 1987; 56(1):4P.

BS Baliga, LJ Sindel, LD Jenkins, S Rashatwar and MA Artman. Inhibition of T-lymphocyte activation by amiloride. J CELL BIOCHEM 1987; 33:151-160.

BS Baliga, SD Rohrer, AE Maumenee and RDA Peterson. Biosynthesis of macrophage activation factor. LYMPHOKINE RES 1986; 5:141-156.

BS Baliga, LJ Sindel, LD Jenkins and JB Sachen. Effect of polymyxin-B on T-lymphocyte protein synthesis. BIOCHEM BIOPHYS RES COMMUN 1986;135:649-654.

DA Mark, BS Baliga and RM Suskind. All-trans retinoic acid reverses immune related hematological changes in the vitamin A deficient rat. NUTR REP INT 1983; 28:1245-1252.

S Kuvibidila, BS Baliga and RM Suskind. The effect of iron deficiency anemia on cytolytic activity of mice spleen and peritoneal cells against allogenic tumor cells. AM J CLIN NUTR 1983; 38:238-244.

S Kuvibidila, KM Nauss, BS Baliga and RM Suskind. Impairment of blastogenic response of splenic lymphocytes from iron deficient mice: In vitro repletion by hemin, transferrin and ferric chloride. AM J CLIN NUTR 1983; 37:557-565.

S Kuvibidila, KM Nauss, BS Baliga and RM Suskind. Impairment of blastogenic response of splenic lymphocytes from iron deficient mice. AM J CLIN NUTR 1983; 37:15-25.

S Kuvibidila, BS Baliga and RM Suskind. Generation of plaque forming cells in iron deficient anemic mice. NUTR REP INT 1982; 26:861-871.

 

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