Salma Akter

A highly motivated researcher with a Ph.D. in the DNA damage and repair field. Willing to explore and learn cutting-edge technologies to enhance knowledge in advanced research areas to build up a career as a researcher.

• ATM suppresses c-Myc overexpression in the mammary epithelium in response to estrogen.Rifat Ara Najnin, Md Rasel Al Mahmud, Md Maminur Rahman, Shunichi Takeda, Hiroyuki Sasanuma, Hisashi Tanaka, Yasuhiro Murakawa, Naoto Shimizu, Salma Akter, Masatoshi Takagi, Takuro Sunada, Shusuke Akamatsu, Gang He, Junji Itou, Masakazu Toi, Mary Miyaji, Kimiko M. Tsutsui, Scott Keeney,and Shintaro Yamada.January 31, 2023, Cell Reports.
• Physiological concentrations of glucocorticoids induce pathological DNA double-strand breaks. Salma Akter, Akihiro Shimba, Koichi Ikuta, Md. Rasel Al Mahmud, Shintaro Yamada, Hiroyuki Sasanuma, Masataka Tsuda, Masakatsu Sone, Yukio Ago, Kenichi Murai, Hisashi Tanaka, Shunichi Takeda. November 22, 2022; Genes to Cells.
• Topoisomerase I-driven repair of UV-induced damage in NER-deficient cells. Liton Kumar Saha, Mitsuo Wakasugi, Salma Akter, Rajendra Prasad, Samuel H. Wilson, Naoto Shimizu, Hiroyuki Sasanuma, Shar-yin Naomi Huang, Keli Agama, Yves Pommier, Tsukasa Matsunaga, Kouji Hirota, Shigenori Iwai, Yuka Nakazawa, Tomoo Ogi, and Shunichi Takeda.June 23, 2020; PNAS
• Differential micronucleus frequency in isogenic human cells deficient in DNA repair pathways is a valuable indicator for evaluating genotoxic agents and their genotoxic mechanisms. Saha, Liton; Kim, Sujin; Kang, Habyeong; Akter Salma; Choi, Kyungho; Sakuma, Tetsushi; Yamamoto, Takashi; Sasanuma, Hiroyuki; Hirota, Kouji; Nakamura, Jun; Honma, Masamitsu; Takeda, Shunichi. 15 May 2018, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis.
• Mre11 Is Essential for the Removal of Lethal Topoisomerase 2 Covalent Cleavage Complexes. Nguyen Ngoc Hoa, Tsubasa Shimizu, Zhong Wei Zhou, Zhao-Qi Wang, Rajashree A. Deshpande, Tanya T. Paull, Salma Akter, Masataka Tsuda, Ryohei Furuta , Ken Tsutsui,
  Shunichi Takeda and Hiroyuki Sasanuma, November 3, 2016; Molecular Cell
• In silico proposition to predict cluster of B- and T-cell epitopes for the usefulness of vaccine design from invasive, virulent and membrane associated proteins of C. jejuni. Tahirah Yasmin, Salma Akter; Mouly Debnath; Akio Ebihara ; Tsutomu Nakagawa; A H M Nurun Nabi, 2016 July 4; In silico pharmacology
• One proceeding published in the conference book of International Conference of Biotechnology in Health and Agriculture (ICBHA), second GNOBB conference in 2015.- Targeting peptide deformylase: An in-silico approach to identify the novel bioactive marine compounds to treat Helicobacter pylori.

• Salma Akter, Shintaro Yamada, Gang He, Rifat Ara Najnin, and Shunichi Takeda. DNA break repair machinery corroborates early transcriptional response by regulating the activity of enhancers – Proposal of the novel molecular mechanism for A-T symptoms. ATW2023, March 2-5, 2023, Kyoto, Japan
• Akter Salma, Mengting Qiu, Hiroyuki Sasanuma, Shunichi Takeda. Development of a p53 Reporter Plasmid for Detecting Genotoxic Industrial Chemicals. The 10th International 3R (Replication, Recombination and Repair) Symposium; November 13-17, 2016; Matsue City, Shimane, Japan.
• International Council of Chemical Associations’ Long-Range Research Initiative (ICCA-LRI) and Japan’sNational Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) Workshop, “Meeting the Global Challenge of Applying New Scientific Methods to Improve Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessments,” held in Awaji Island, Japan on 2016 June 15-16.
• Participated in Symposium on Cancer and Developmental Biology organized by Bangladesh Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
• Mohammad Tuhin Ali, Md. Habibur Rahaman, Md. Khairul Islam, Salma Akter.Targeting peptide deformylase: An in-silico approach to identify the novel bioactive marine compounds to treat Helicobacter pylori. Conference Name: 2nd GNOBB Conference - International Conference of Biotechnology in Health and Agriculture (ICBHA) 2015; Place: Dhaka, Bangladesh.