Education
Ph.D., (NCCS) Pune University, 2015
Lab information
Jennifer A Philips
http://www.jenphilipslab.com
Research focus
Host-pathogen interactions
Publications
1. Sapna Deore, Anil Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Ekansh Mittal, Anil Lotke and Krishnasastry Musti. Erythrocyte Binding Ligand Region VI specific IgA Confers Tissue Protection In Malaria Infection. Mol Biol Rep. 2019 Apr.
2. Ekansh Mittal, Michael L. Skowyra, Grace Uwase, Emir Tinaztepe, Alka Mehra, Stefan Köster, Phyllis I. Hanson and Jennifer A. Philips. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Type VII Secretion System Effectors Differentially Impact the ESCRT Endomembrane Damage Response. mBio 2018 Nov.
3. Sandeep Upadhyay, Ekansh Mittal and Jennifer A. Philips. Tuberculosis and the art of macrophage manipulation. FEMS Pathog. Dis. 2018 Jun.
4. Stefan Koster, Sandeep Upadhyay, Pallavi Chandra, Kadamba Papavinasasundaram, Guozhe Yang, Amir Hassan, Steven Grigsby, Ekansh Mittal, Heidi S Park, Victoria Jones, Fong-Fu Hsu, Mary C Jackson, Christopher M Sassetti and Jennifer Philips. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is protected from NADPH oxidase and LC3-associated phagocytosis by the LCP protein CpsA. PNAS. 2017 Sept.
5. Santosh Kumar, Ekansh Mittal, Sapna Deore, Aejazur Rahman and Musti V. Krishnasastry. Mycobacterial tlyA gene product is localized to the cell-wall without signal sequence. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2015 Aug.
6. Ekansh Mittal, Santosh Kumar, Aejazur Rahman and Musti V. Krishnasastry. Modulation of Phagolysosome Maturation by Bacterial tlyA gene product. J Biosci. 2014 Dec.