Dr. Srikanta Chowdhury
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
 University of Chittagong
srikanta@cu.ac.bd,
Member since 2020

Short Biography

Dr Srikanta Chowdhury is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chittagong. He is also the Principal Investigator (Neuroscience division) of the Eukaryotic Gene Expression and Function (EuGEF) Research Group. His work in investigating neuronal circuitry regulating sleep/wakefulness and sleep-related disorders in mammals help in our current understanding of sleep biology. More recently, he is interested in the neurobiology of energy balance to reveal novel phenomenon through which brain regulates food intake and energy expenditure. His team is also working in the interface of the brain and cancer science to reveal the bi-directional communication between the brain and periphery in the context of cancer.

Selected Publications

1. Ohmura Y, Iwami K, Chowdhury S, Sasamori H, Sugiura C, Bouchekioua Y, Nishitani N, Yamanaka A, Yoshioka M. Disruption of model-based decision making by silencing of serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus. Current Biology. 2021;31(11):2446-2454.e5.

2. Izawa S, Chowdhury S, Miyazaki T, Mukai Y, Ono D, Inoue R, et al. REM sleep active MCH neurons are involved in forgetting hippocampus-dependent memories. Science. 2019; 365(6459), 1308.

3. Chowdhury S, Hung CJ, Izawa S, Inutsuka A, Kawamura M, Kawashima T, et al. Dissociating orexin-dependent and -independent functions of orexin neurons using novel Orexin-Flp knock-in mice. eLife. 2019;8.

4. Chowdhury S, Matsubara T, Miyazaki T, Ono D, Abe M, Sakimura K, et al. GABA neurons in the ventral tegmental area regulate non-rapid eye movement sleep in mice. eLife. 2019;8. doi:10.7554/eLife.44928

5. Miyazaki T*, Chowdhury S*, Yamashita T*, Matsubara T, Yawo H, Yuasa H, et al. Large Timescale Interrogation of Neuronal Function by Fiberless Optogenetics Using Lanthanide Micro-particles. Cell Reports. 2019;26(4):1033-43.e5.