Arnab Roy

Undergraduate Reasearcher (Junior in Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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Arnab is an undergraduate student at UIUC and is majoring and minoring in Biochemistry and Chemistry, respectively. He is also on the pre-medical track.

Current Research

Arnab joined the Kalsotra Lab in August of 2023. He is interested in analyzing the splicing aberrance and misregulation of key splicing/transcription factors in mouse hepatocytes that results from pairing high fat/high sugar diets with chronic ethanol binging. He has done so by examining qPCRs of gene targets that are often regulated by epithelial splicing regulatory protein 2 (ESRP2), conducting immunohistochemistry stainings of mouse livers, and splice assays of mouse cDNA.
 
Arnab is also a part of the Jalilian Lab at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, he conducts research on trigeminal-ganglia derived extracellular vesicles and its therapeutic efficacy in in-vivo corneal wound healing as well as in radiation-based in-vitro cell proliferation.

Outside the lab

In his free time, Arnab enjoys weightlifting, playing the violin, and building Legos. Arnab is also a part of Alpha Chi Sigma, a professional chemistry fraternity, as well as Alpha Epsilon Delta, a pre-health honors society/fraternity. Through both organizations, Arnab has been able to serve the Urbana-Champaign community—such as by helping at food pantries or by showing chemistry demonstrations, just to name a few.

Awards and Fellowships

 

Publication

  • Amin, S., Massoumi, H., Tewari, D., Roy, A., Chaudhuri, M., Jazayerli, C., Krishan, A., Singh, M., Soleimani, M., Karaca, E.E., et al. (2024) Cell Type-Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Their Impact on Health and Disease. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25, 2730. doi: 10.3390/ijms25052730