B.Sc. Biochemistry (2005), University of Delhi, India
M.Sc. Biotechnology (2007), University of Calcutta, India
PhD thesis (2011), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Research Interests
Using Next Generation Sequencing technology, I am interested in identifying causative molecular and genetic alterations responsible for various retinal dystrophies like retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, etc. My second aim is development and application of diagnostic modalities and therapeutic interventions based upon identification of these pathogenic mutations.
Positions
May 2012 – present:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Medical Molecular Genetics, Medical Faculty, University of Zurich
December 2011 – March 2012:
Junior Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Zurich, Switzerland
September 2007 – December 2011:
Doctoral Fellow ETH Zurich, Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Teaching
2012 - 2014:
Molecular Human Genetics, Course BIO408, Institute of Medical Molecular
Genetics
2009:
Teaching Assistant, Prof. M. Hengartner, course BIO 111 Molekulare und klassische Genetik, school year 2009/2011
Publications
Haghighi
A*, Tiwari A*, Piri N, Nuernberg G, Gohari NS, Haghighi A, Neidhardt J,
Nuernberg P and Berger W (2014) Homozygosity mapping and whole exome sequencing
reveal a novel homozygous COL18A1 mutation causing Knobloch syndrome. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112747
* Equal contribution
Uzozie A, Nanni P,
Staiano T, Grossmann J, Barkow SO, Shay JW,
Tiwari A, Buffoli F, Laczko E and Marra G
(2014) Sorbitol dehydrogenase overexpression and other aspects
of dysregulated protein expression in human precancerous colorectal neoplasms:
a quantitative proteomics study. Mol
Cell Proteomics. 2014
May;13(5):1198-218
Tiwari
A, Schneider M, Fiorino A, Haider R, Okoniewski MJ, Roschitzki B, Uzozie A,
Menigatti M, Jiricny J and Marra G (2013) Early insights into the function of
KIAA1199, a markedly overexpressed protein in human colorectal cancers. PLoS ONE Jul 23;8(7): e69473
Cattaneo E, Laczko E, Buffoli F, Zorzi F, Bianco MA, Menigatti M, Bartosova Z, Haider R, Helmchen B, Sabates-Bellver J, Tiwari A, Jiricny J and Marra G (2011) Preinvasive colorectal lesion transcriptomes correlate with endoscopic morphology (polypoid versus nonpolypoid). EMBO Molecular Medicine 3(6): 334-47
Ghosh A, Dey N, Bera A, Tiwari A, Sathyaniranjan K, Chakrabarti K and Chattopadhyay D (2010) Culture independent molecular analysis of bacterial communities in the mangrove sediment of Sundarban, India. Saline Systems 6(1): 1-11
