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- Electrophysiology(membrane transport),
- Membrane trafficking and contact sites
- Ca2+ and cAMP signaling
- Tight junctions
- Microbiome.
- Assistant Professor - Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer(2025 onwards)
- Visiting Fellow - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research(NIDCR) / National Institute of Health(NIH, MD, USA) (Spt'2019-April'2025) - Epithelial Signaling and Transport
- Post-doctoral Fellow - Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine(UNR, NV, USA) (Spt'2018-Aug'2019) - Smooth muscle E-C coupling.
- Doctoral Fellow: Pathophysiology Division, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR-NICED, Kolkata, India) - Intestinal Ion Transport.
- M.Sc. in Biochemistry, B.Sc. in Physiology (Calcutta University, India)
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- Dr. Aoun is an trained electrophysiologist cum cell biologist. He is the first person in the field to discover the “pathophysiological role of TMEM16F or ANO6 (Cl- channel) in intestinal ion transport and physiological role of TMEM16A or ANO1( Cl- channel) in smooth muscle E-C coupling. He also worked on developing universal anti-diarrheal therapy.
- He has a long-term interest in lipid regulation of membrane transport and trafficking. Now it's been evident that membrane contact sites like ER-PM or ER-Mitocondria contact sites are the hub of cellular signaling events(e.g, Ca2+ and cAMP signaling). These signaling nanodomains are highly dynamic architectures that modulate the channels and transporters' function during physiological and pathophysiological conditions.
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- Current research interest is the role of lipid transporters in the orchestration of cAMP and Ca2+ signaling, regulation of membrane transport and trafficking.
Attended
1. Invited talk as an early-career young scientist - Fortries in disease biology 2025, IISER- Kolkata, India
2. Invited talk as an early-career young scientist - Preclinical model of disease biology 2024, IISER- Kolkata, India
3. Poster Presentation American Pancreatic Association - 2024, Hawaii, USA
4. Poster Presentation Gordon Research Conference - Salivary
and Exocrine Gland Biology 2023 CA, USA
5. NIH Research Festival 2023 and 2024, NIH, Bethesda, USA
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 Joydeep Aoun NIH Biosketches.pdf |
