Rate My Professor Satyajit Mayor

Professor Satyajit Mayor serves as the Leverhulme International Professor at the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. He obtained his MSc in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1985 and his PhD in Life Sciences from The Rockefeller University, USA, in 1991. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University supported by the Helen Hays Whitney Post-Doctoral Fellowship from 1992 to 1995, he established his independent laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India, in 1995. There, he advanced from Reader to Associate Professor, Professor, Senior Professor, and eventually Centre Director from 2013. Mayor's research specializes in the fine structure, function, and dynamics of the plasma membrane in living cells. Utilizing interdisciplinary methods from biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics, his work elucidates information processing at cellular interfaces, regulation of membrane structure and composition, and mechanisms of non-clathrin endocytic pathways. His laboratory employs high-resolution microscopy, in vitro reconstitution techniques, and collaborations with structural biologists, chemical biologists, soft-matter physicists, and computational biologists to investigate membrane properties such as tension and composition across various cell types.