Prathyusha Konda, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral fellowship, DoD Kidney Cancer Research Program
Hometown: Andra Pradesh, India
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Prathyusha received a B.Tech. in Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India) with research experiences in Cancer Biology and Epigenetics. Subsequently, she received a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Dalhousie University in Canada where her thesis work focused on enhancing mass spectrometry-based tumor antigen discovery platforms and developing novel immunogenic photodynamic therapies for melanoma, with an emphasis on T cell-mediated anticancer immune responses.
Selected Publications:
- Murphy J*, Konda P*, Kowalewski DJ, Schuster H, Clements D, Kim Y, Cohen A M, Sharif T, Nielsen M, Stevanovic S, Lee P W & Gujar S. MHC-I Ligand Discovery Using Targeted Database Searches of Mass Spectrometry Data:Implications for T-Cell Immunotherapies. Journal of Proteome Research, 2017.
- Konda P, Murphy J P, Gujar S. 2020. Improving MHC-I ligand identification by incorporating targeted searches of mass spectrometry data. Methods in Molecular Biology Bioinformatics, 2020.