Bhanu Pratap Jena
BJB College, Utkal University, Iowa State University | |
| Known for | Porosome,
Membrane fusion |
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| Fields | Chemistry, cell biology |
Bhanu Pratap Jena (born November 1, 1955) is an American cell biologist and the "George E. Palade University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physiology" at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, who discovered porosome in mid 1990s & demonstrated it to be the universal secretory machinery in Plasma Membrane.[1][2][3][4][5]
Biography
Jena was born in
Jajpur, Odisha, India on November 1, 1955, to Manju and Prafulla Jena.[citation needed
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He majored in Chemistry, Zoology and Botany from
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Scientific career
Using
lipid membrane and live cells, and its composition determined. The discovery of the Porosome, and an understanding of its structure, function, composition, and reconstitution, has opened a new field in cell biology
; nano cell biology[3].
References
- ^ Horber, J. K. H. and Miles, M. J. (2003) Scanning Probe Evolution in Biology. Science, 302:1002-1005.
- ^ Singer, M.V. (2004). Legacy of a Distinguished Scientist: George E. Palade. Pancreatology, 3:518-519.
- ^ Editorial (2006) Tribute to Professor Bhanu P. Jena. J. Cell Mol. Med, 10:270.
- ^ Trikha, S., Lee, E.C., Jeremic, A.M. (2010). Cell Secretion: Current Structural and Biochemical Insights. TheScientificWorld Journal 10:2054-2069.
- ^ Jeftinija, S. The story of cell secretion: events leading to the discovery of the 'Porosome' -the universal secretory machinery in cells. J. Cell Mol. Med. 10(2):273-279.
- PMID 32309555.
- ^ "Biography" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-26.
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