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Gut Immunologist & Microbiome Expert | DKFZ Heidelberg & Weizmann Institute | 13+ Nature/Cell Publications | IBD, Cancer

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I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg — one of Europe's premier cancer research institutions — with prior training at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. I bring over 12 years of expertise spanning gut immunology, microbiome-cancer interactions, MHC II antigen presentation, inflammasome signaling, and host-pathogen biology. My research has been published in Nature (twice), Nature Immunology, Nature Medicine, Cell, eLife, and PLoS Pathogens — among the most prestigious journals in biomedical science. I have supervised doctoral and master's students across three countries and serve as peer reviewer for multiple international journals. I am available for expert consulting, experimental design, grant writing, manuscript review, and scientific advisory in gut immunology, microbiome therapeutics, IBD, GI cancer biology, antigen presentation, and translational immunology.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Industrial Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiological Assays
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Basic Immunology
• ☆ Adjuvant & Antigen Research
• ☆ Biotechnology & Bioengineering
• ☆ Recombinant Protein Expression
• ☆ Biomimetics
• ☆ Pathogenesis
• ☆ Clinical Microbiology
• ☆ Circadian Rhythm Research
• ☆ Tissue Engineering
• ☆ Drug Discovery
• ☆ High Throughput Screening (HTS)
• ☆ Drug Target Identification
• ☆ Hit-to-Lead & Lead Optimization
• ☆ Phenotypic Assays
• ☆ High Content Screening/Imaging
• ☆ Drug Design
• ☆ Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) Studies
• ☆ Drug Development
• ☆ Biosafety Testing
• ☆ Microbiology Testing
• ☆ Preclinical ADME/PK/PD
• ☆ Drug-Drug Interactions
• ☆ In vitro Preclinical Toxciology
• ☆ In vivo Preclinical Toxicology
• ☆ Investigational New Drug (IND) Application Consulting
• ☆ Antibiotic Development
• ☆ Vaccine Development
• ☆ Gene Therapy

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing, Technical Writing

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Healthcare Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Post Doctoral Reasercher

DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center), Heidelberg, Germany

February 2025 - Present

Post doctoral Researcher

DKFZ

February 2025 - Present

Academic Consultant

Weizmann Institute of Science

July 2024 - January 2025

Academic Consultant

Weizmann Institute of Science

July 2024 - January 2025

Post Doctoral Reasercher

Weizmann Institute of Science

July 2019 - June 2024

POSTDOC

Weizmann Institute of Science

July 2019 - April 2024

Education

PhD

UNESCO-Regional Centre for Biotechnology in affiliation with Manipal Academy of Higher Education

February 2012 - March 2019

PhD (LGIIB)

Regional Centre for Biotechnology

February 2012 - March 2019

MSc

University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad India

August 2009 - November 2011

Certifications

• Animal handling certificate

  Israel

  December 2019 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Gayatree Mohapatra, Chunyang Tian, Xiaoqi Ye, Shanshan Xiong, Sinan Lin, Ziyin Ye, Siyun Huang, Xin Yu, Baili Chen, Yao He, et al. (2025). Novel loss-of-function intronic mutation in ELF4 is associated with intestinal autoinflammation . Mucosal Immunology.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Karin Goldberg, Arseniy Lobov, Paola Antonello, Merav D. Shmueli, Idan Yakir, Tal Weizman, Adi Ulman, Daoud Sheban, Einav Laser, et al. (2025). Cell-autonomous innate immunity by proteasome-derived defence peptides . Nature.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Yiming He, Sahana Asokan, Samuel Philip Nobs, Eran Elinav (2024). Microbiome modulation of antigen presentation in tolerance and inflammation . Current Opinion in Immunology.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Preksha Gaur, Yesheswini Rajendran, Bhagyashree Srivastava, Manasvini Markandey, Vered Fishbain-Yoskovitz, Aamir Suhail, Shikha Chaudhary, Shaifali Tyagi, Subhash Chandra Yadav, et al. (2024). Rab7-dependent regulation of goblet cell protein CLCA1 modulates gastrointestinal homeostasis . eLife.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Samuel Philip Nobs, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk, Lital Adler, Nir Horesh, Christine Botscharnikow, Ella Herzog, Sophia Hejndorf, Ryan-James Hodgetts, Igor Spivak, et al. (2023). Lung dendritic-cell metabolism underlies susceptibility to viral infection in diabetes . Nature.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Hridya Chandrasekhar, Kirti Kajal, Mukesh Singh, Kshitiz Walia, Sarika Rana, Navneet Kaur, Sheetal Sharma, Amit Tuli, Prasenjit Das, et al. (2023). SifA SUMOylation governs Salmonella Typhimurium intracellular survival via modulation of lysosomal function . PLOS Pathogens.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Danping Zheng, Lara Kern, Yiming He, Merav D. Shmueli, Rafael Valdés-Mas, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk, Tomasz Próchnicki, Matilde B. Vasconcelos, Lena Schorr, et al. (2023). Epithelial Nlrp10 inflammasome mediates protection against intestinal autoinflammation . Nature Immunology.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Sara Federici, Sharon Kredo-Russo, Rafael Valdés-Mas, Denise Kviatcovsky, Eyal Weinstock, Yulia Matiuhin, Yael Silberberg, Koji Atarashi, Munehiro Furuichi, et al. (2022). Targeted suppression of human IBD-associated gut microbiota commensals by phage consortia for treatment of intestinal inflammation . Cell.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Avital Eisenberg-Lerner, Yifat Merbl (2021). Gatekeepers of the Gut: The Roles of Proteasomes at the Gastrointestinal Barrier . Biomolecules.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Sanjeeb Mohapatra, Neha Sharma, Lokesh P. Padhye, Suparna Mukherji (2021). Seasonal variation in fluorescence characteristics of dissolved organic matter in wastewater and identification of proteins through HRLC-MS/MS . Journal of Hazardous Materials.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Sanjeeb Mohapatra, N. Gayathri Menon, Lakshmi Pisharody, Aryamav Pattnaik, N. Gowri Menon, Prudhvi Lal Bhukya, Manjita Srivastava, Meenakshi Singh, Muneesh Kumar Barman, et al. (2021). The novel SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Possible environmental transmission, detection, persistence and fate during wastewater and water treatment . Science of The Total Environment.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Sarika Rana, Sonalika Maurya, Savita Singh, Rohan Babar, Hridya Chandrasekhar, Garima Chamoli, Deepak Rathore, Pallavi Kshetrapal, C. V. Srikanth (2021). Activation of epigenetic regulator KDM6B by <i>Salmonella</i> Typhimurium enables chronic infections . Gut Microbes.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk, Sara Federici, Niv Zmora, Mally Dori-Bachash, Shanni Hornstein, Avner Leshem, Debby Reuveni, Ehud Zigmond, Ana Tobar, et al. (2020). Acute liver failure is regulated by MYC- and microbiome-dependent programs . Nature Medicine.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Preksha Gaur, M. Prabhakar, Mukesh Singh, Sarika Rana, Shivendra Singh, Navneet Kaur, Smriti Verma, V. Krishna, Nirpendra Singh, et al. (2018). A SUMOylation dependent switch of Rab7 governs intracellular life and pathogenesis of <i>Salmonella</i> Typhimurium . Journal of Cell Science.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Salman Ahmad Mustfa, Mukesh Singh, Aamir Suhail, Smriti Verma, Debangana Chakravorty, Sarika Rana, Ritika Rampal, Atika Dhar, Sudipto Saha, et al. (2017). SUMOylation pathway alteration coupled with downregulation of SUMO E2 enzyme at mucosal epithelium modulates inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease . Open Biology.

Gayatree Mohapatra, Smriti Verma, Salman Mustfa Ahmad, Sarika Rana, Swati Jain, Jasneet Kaur Khalsa, C. V. Srikanth (2015). <i>Salmonella</i> Engages Host MicroRNAs To Modulate SUMOylation: a New Arsenal for Intracellular Survival . Molecular and Cellular Biology.