Gaiti Hasan

Gaiti Hasan is an Indian scientist who researches in the Pacic Molecular Biology Network.[1] She is also a fellow
elds of molecular biology, genetics, neuroscience and of Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
cell signalling.[1] Hasan is a Fellow of the Indian National
Science Academy (INSA), the apex body of Indian scientists and technologists.[1] 2013 onwards she has been 4 Publications
serving as a Senior Professor at the National Centre for
Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore.[1][2]
1. Deb, Bipan Kumar;
Pathak, Trayambak;
Hasan, Gaiti (2016-05-26). Store-independent
modulation of Ca2+ entry through Orai by
Septin 7.
Nature Communications.
7: 0.
1 Education
doi:10.1038/ncomms11751.
PMC 4894974 .
PMID 27225060.
Hasan studied in Aligarh as a child. Her parents taught
at university, and her two sisters studied chemistry and
physics.[3] She went on to do a B.Sc. in zoology from
Miranda House, Delhi University in 1976. She completed a M.Sc. in life sciences in 1978 and a M.Phil.
in 1980 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.[1][3] In
1983, she received a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge for her dissertation on ribosomal RNA genes of
Trypanosoma brucei.[4] According to Hasan, it was while
she was applying to universities for her Ph.D. that she realised for the rst time that belonging to a minority could
lead to discrimination. She believes this has led her to
consciously try and be supportive of other woman scientists, be they students or colleagues.[3]

2. Pathak, T.; Agrawal, T.; Richhariya, S.; Sadaf, S.;

Hasan, G. (2015). Store-Operated Calcium Entry through Orai is Required for Transcriptional
Maturation of the Flight Circuit in Drosophila.
Journal of Neuroscience. 35 (40): 1378499.
doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1680-15.2015. PMID
26446229.
3. Agrawal, Tarjani; Hasan, Gaiti (2015). Maturation of a central brain ight circuit in
Drosophilarequires Fz2/Ca2+signaling.
ELife.
4. doi:10.7554/eLife.07046.
4. Sadaf, Sua; Reddy, O. Venkateswara; Sane, Sanjay P.; Hasan, Gaiti (2015). Neural Control of
Wing Coordination in Flies. Current Biology. 25
(1): 806. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.069. PMID
25496964.

Career

Presently she works at NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences)[5] where she researches on the systemic
and cellular consequences of changes in intracellular calcium levels in animals. In 1983, Hasan joined the Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai,
as a visiting fellow and research associate in the molecular biology unit.[1] She was a visiting scientist at the biology department in Brandeis University Massachusetts in
1992.[4]

5. Agrawal, Tarjani; Sadaf, Sua; Hasan, Gaiti (2013).

A Genetic RNAi Screen for IP3/Ca2+ Coupled
GPCRs in Drosophila Identies the PdfR as a
Regulator of Insect Flight. PLoS Genetics. 9 (10):
doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003849.
e1003849.
PMC 3789835 . PMID 24098151.
6. Subramanian, M.; Metya, S. K.; Sadaf, S.; Kumar, S.; Schwudke, D.; Hasan, G. (2013). Altered lipid homeostasis in Drosophila InsP3 receptor mutants leads to obesity and hyperphagia.
Disease Models & Mechanisms. 6 (3): 734744.
doi:10.1242/dmm.010017.

Awards and recognition

Hasan has received a scholarship from the Inlaks

Foundation,[6] a British Overseas Research Student
Award, a fellowship from the Wellcome Trust and a
Rockefeller Biotechnology Career Fellowship. In 2006,
she was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and in 2007, as a Member of the Asia-

7. Hasan, Gaiti (2013).

Intracellular signaling
in neurons: Unraveling specicity, compensatory
mechanisms and essential gene function. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
23 (1): 62
doi:10.1016/j.conb.2012.07.004.
PMID
7.
22878162.
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8. Chakraborty, Sumita; Hasan, Gaiti (2012). Functional Complementation of Drosophila itpr Mutants
by RatItpr1. Journal of Neurogenetics. 26 (3
4): 32837. doi:10.3109/01677063.2012.697501.
PMID 22817477.
9. Agrawal, N.; Venkiteswaran, G.; Sadaf, S.; Padmanabhan, N.; Banerjee, S.; Hasan, G. (2010).
Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor and dSTIM
Function in Drosophila Insulin-Producing Neurons
Regulates Systemic Intracellular Calcium Homeostasis and Flight. Journal of Neuroscience. 30
(4): 130113. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.366809.2010. PMID 20107057.

10. Venkiteswaran, G.; Hasan, G. (2009). Intracellular

Ca2+ signaling and store-operated Ca2+ entry are
required in Drosophila neurons for ight. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (25):
1032610331. doi:10.1073/pnas.0902982106.

References

[1] Gaiti Hasan - INSA Fellow. Indian National Science Academy www.insaindia.org. Retrieved 19 October
2014.
[2] NCBS Faculty. National Centre for Biological Sciences
www.ncbs.res.in. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
[3] (eds.) Godbole, Rohini and Ramaswamy, Ram (2008).
Science and the Art of Detection (PDF). Lilavatis
Daughters: The Women Scientists of India. Indian
Academy of Sciences. pp. 128131. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
[4] NISER Gaiti Hasan bio (PDF). National Institute of
Science Education and Research www.niser.ac.in. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
[5] NCBS Faculty. www.ncbs.res.in. Retrieved 2016-0716.
[6] Inlaks Shivdasani Scholarships - Gaiti Hasan. Inlaks
Shivdasani Foundation. Retrieved 14 April 2015.

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