Rajesh Ranjan

Rajesh Ranjan is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree from Banaras Hindu University, India; a master degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; and a Ph.D. from the University of Montreal, Canada.

During Dr. Ranjan’s training, he developed a keen focus on research that encompasses cell biology, epigenetic inheritance, cell fate determination and cellular differentiation process as well as microscopy. As a Junior Research Fellow (2006 to 2008) in the AC Banerjea lab at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India, he studied the functional characterization of the point mutation in HIV 1 proteins. As a graduate student (2008 to 2014) in the Paul Maddox lab at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Canada, he studied the role of chromatin condensation factor during C. elegans embryonic development. As a post-doctoral fellow (2014 to 2019) in Xin Chen’s lab at the Biology department, Johns Hopkins University, USA, he studied the roles of Centromere and microtubules in asymmetric epigenetic inheritance during Drosophila male germline stem cell division. As an Assistant Research Scientist in Xin Chen’s lab at the Biology department, Johns Hopkins University, USA, he investigates the role of histone dynamics and chromatin dynamics in asymmetric epigenetics inheritance and cell fate determination. Here he learned to use Drosophila as a model organism and continued his research on epigenetic inheritance and cell fate determination.