Distinguished Professor
Director - Endocrine Program
Endocrine Research Facility, Room 104
848-932-1529
dipak.sarkar@rutgers.edu
https://endocrine.rutgers.edu
Research
My current research focuses on understanding how fetal alcohol exposures alter neuroimmune communications in the hypothalamus via extravesicular and epigenetic mechanisms to induce stress hyper-response, behavioral abnormalities, metabolic dysfunctions, immune incompetence and cancer.
Scientific Projects
- Signal transduction pathways for alcohol action on -EP neuronal differentiation and neurotransmission
- Alcohol and opioid peptide interaction in the control of NK cell activity
- Clock genes regulation of neuroendocrine and immune functions
- Fetal alcohol effects on stress axis
- Fetal alcohol effects on circadian rhythms
- Neuronal stem cells and their differentiation
- Beta-endorphin cell transplants in control of stress disorders and cancer
- Fetal alcohol effects on tumor susceptibility
- Alcohol induced oxidative stress and toxicity in developing neurons
- Epigenetic of alcohol effect on stress axis development
- Opioid receptor dimerization
- Neuron and glial interaction in controlling alcohol apoptotic action
- Cell cell (paracrine and gap-junctional) communications in the control of hormonal carcinogenesis in pituitary lactotropic cells.
- Determination of the efficacy of adenoviral vector delivery of growth factors in the treatment of pituitary tumors.
- Effects of alkylphenols in the control of sexual differentiation of the neuroendocrine brain and the development of reproductive functions
Experience
| Title | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Distinguished Professor and Director | Endocrine Program, Center for Alcohol Studies, Dept. of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University | 2001 |
| Chair and Professor | Dept. of Animal Sciences, Rutgers University | 1999 |
| Director | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program, Washington State University | 1998 |
| Adjunct Professor | Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Washington State University | 1989 |
| Adjunct Professor | Program of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Washington State University | 1989 |
| Professor | Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology; Washington State University | 1996 |
| Associate Professor (Tenured) | Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology; Washington State University |
1988 |
| Assistant Professor | University of California, San Diego, Department of Reproductive Medicine |
1983 |
| Research Associate | Michigan State University, Department of Physiology | 1980 |
| Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow | Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Neurological Surgery |
1979 |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant | University of Oxford, Department of Anatomy |
1979 |
Education
| Degree | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| D. Phil. | Oxford University, UK | 1979 |
| Ph.D. | Calcutta University, India | 1975 |
| M.S. | Calcutta University, India | 1972 |
| B.S. | Calcutta University, India | 1970 |