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'''Jyotsna Dhawan''' is an Indian Cell and Developmental Biologist, Emeritus Scientist at [[Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology]]<ref name="ccmb">{{cite web |url=https://www.ccmb.res.in/People/Research-Group/Jyotsna-Dhawan |title=Jyotsna Dhawan |website=CCMB |accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="frontiers">{{cite web |url=https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/125221/bio|title=Jyotsna Dhawan |website=Loop - Frontiers |accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref> and Visiting Professor, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem).<ref name="ccmb" /><ref name="lab">{{cite web |title=Prof. Jyotsna Dhawan |url=https://quiescentmusclab.weebly.com/people.html |website=Muscle stem cell Lab |accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref> Dhawan's research has focused on adult stem cell function and skeletal muscle regeneration.<ref name="ccmb" /><ref name="frontiers" /><ref name="lab" /><ref name="tdu">{{cite web |title=Dr. Jyotsna Dhawan |url=http://tdu.edu.in/governance/jyotsna-dhawan/ |website=The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology |accessdate=24 July 2020 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621110210/http://tdu.edu.in/governance/jyotsna-dhawan/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dhawan is the current (2019-2021) President of the Indian Society for Cell Biology<ref name="frontiers"/><ref name="ISCB">{{cite web |title=Executive Committee Members of the Society |url=http://iscb.org.in/homepage.htm |website=ISCB |accessdate=24 July 2020}}</ref> and the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (2017–2020).<ref name="frontiers" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Office Bearers |url=http://www.devbioindia.org/index.php?page=office_bearers&lid=130 |website=InSDB: Indian Society for Developmental Biologists |accessdate=24 July 2020 |archive-date=25 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725001658/http://www.devbioindia.org/index.php?page=office_bearers&lid=130 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dhawan was elected as a fellow to the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 2019.<ref name="frontiers" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Indian Fellow |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/P20-1835 |website=Indian National Science Academy |accessdate=24 July 2020}}</ref><br />
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== Early life and education ==<br />
Dhawan's father [[Satish Dhawan]] was a faculty at the [[Indian Institute of Science]]<ref name="family">{{cite web |last1=S |first1=Deepika |last2=Ramaswamy |first2=Karthik |title=My Father, Satish Dhawan |url=https://connect.iisc.ac.in/2017/08/father-satish-dhawan/ |website=Connect with IISc |accessdate=24 July 2020}}</ref> and Dhawan's mother Nalini, was a cytogeneticist.<ref name="family" /> She completed her master's in botany from [[Delhi University]] in 1983.<ref name="ccmb" /><ref name="interview">{{cite web |last1=Jayaraj |first1=Nandita |last2=Dogra |first2=Aashima |title=Flexing muscle (stem cells) with Jyotsna |url=https://thelifeofscience.com/tm/2017/02/27/flexing-muscle-stem-cells-with-jyotsna/ |website=The Life of Science|date=27 February 2017 }}</ref> She contemplated quitting her master's degree however, a summer internship in yeast genetics at the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]], convinced her to pursue a PhD.<ref name="interview" /> She completed her PhD from [[Boston University]] in 1991.<ref name="ccmb" /><ref name="lab" /> She completed her postdoctoral training at [[Stanford University]] studying muscle stem cells and [[gene therapy]] in 1995.<ref name="ccmb" /><ref name="lab" /><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Dhawan joined [[Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology]] as faculty in 1996<ref name="lab" /> and started her lab studying the biology of muscle stem cells and muscle repair. From 2009–2014, she helped set up the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Bangalore and served as Senior Professor and Dean.<ref name="ccmb" /><ref name="lab" /> In 2014, she returned to [[Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology]] and retained ties to InStem as a visiting professor and member of the advisory board.<ref name="ccmb" /><ref name="lab" /><ref name="tdu" /><br />
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Dhawan has been an active advocate for establishing India as a leader in biomedical research.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dhawan |first1=Jyotsna |last2=Gokhale |first2=Rajesh S. |last3=Verma |first3=Inder M. |title=Bioscience in India: Times Are Changing |journal=Cell |date=December 2005 |volume=123 |issue=5 |pages=743–745 |doi=10.1016/j.cell.2005.11.018 |pmid=16325565 |doi-access=free }}</ref> She serves as the Scientist In Charge of [[Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology]]’s iHub, an innovation space with an incubation center for biomedical startups<ref name="lab" /> and has served on several scientific review committees, scientific task forces and advisory boards at the national and institutional level.<ref name="frontiers" /> She has also been a part on the editorial board of Physiological Genomics, BBRC and [[Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology]].<ref name="frontiers" /><br />
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== Selected publications ==<br />
* {{cite journal |last1=Cheedipudi |first1=Sirisha |last2=Puri |first2=Deepika |last3=Saleh |first3=Amena |last4=Gala |first4=Hardik P. |last5=Rumman |first5=Mohammed |last6=Pillai |first6=Malini S. |last7=Sreenivas |first7=Prethish |last8=Arora |first8=Reety |last9=Sellathurai |first9=Jeeva |last10=Schrøder |first10=Henrik Daa |last11=Mishra |first11=Rakesh K. |last12=Dhawan |first12=Jyotsna |title=A fine balance: epigenetic control of cellular quiescence by the tumor suppressor PRDM2/RIZ at a bivalent domain in the cyclin a gene |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |date=27 July 2015 |volume=43 |issue=13 |pages=6236–6256 |doi=10.1093/nar/gkv567 |pmid=26040698 |pmc=4513853 }}<br />
* {{cite journal |last1=Krishna |first1=Srikar |last2=Nair |first2=Aparna |last3=Cheedipudi |first3=Sirisha |last4=Poduval |first4=Deepak |last5=Dhawan |first5=Jyotsna |last6=Palakodeti |first6=Dasaradhi |last7=Ghanekar |first7=Yashoda |title=Deep sequencing reveals unique small RNA repertoire that is regulated during head regeneration in Hydra magnipapillata |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |date=1 January 2013 |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=599–616 |doi=10.1093/nar/gks1020 |pmid=23166307 |pmc=3592418 }}<br />
* {{cite journal |last1=Sebastian |first1=S. |last2=Sreenivas |first2=P. |last3=Sambasivan |first3=R. |last4=Cheedipudi |first4=S. |last5=Kandalla |first5=P. |last6=Pavlath |first6=G. K. |last7=Dhawan |first7=J. |title=MLL5, a trithorax homolog, indirectly regulates H3K4 methylation, represses cyclin A2 expression, and promotes myogenic differentiation |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=24 March 2009 |volume=106 |issue=12 |pages=4719–4724 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0807136106 |pmid=19264965 |pmc=2651835 |bibcode=2009PNAS..106.4719S |doi-access=free }}<br />
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