Dhruva Bhattacharya

TL;DR: This work shows that in mammalian cells, autophagy has a hitherto unappreciated positive contribution to the biogenesis and secretion of the proinflammatory cytokine IL‐1β via an export pathway that depends on Atg5, inflammasome, at least one of the two mammalian Golgi reassembly stacking protein (GRASP) paralogues, GRASP55 (GORASP2) and Rab8a.

TL;DR: It is shown that autophagy plays a dual role against tuberculosis: antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, suppressing both M. tuberculosis growth and damaging inflammation.

TL;DR: It is found for the first time that heat shock response controls autophagy thus connecting and coordinating the two extreme ends of the homeostatic systems in the eukaryotic cell.

TL;DR: Results indicate that a combination of Rep-PCR fingerprinting and PCR-based ribotyping can be used as a high-resolution genomic fingerprinting method for elucidating intraspecies diversity among strains of P. citronellolis.

TL;DR: A bacterial strain capable of degrading polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for use as the sole carbon source was isolated from oily-sludge-contaminated soil and showed 98.8% homology to that of Leclercia adecarboxylata.