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Degrees: 1976 - PhD - Indian Institute of Science - Biochemistry, Microbiology 1969 - MS - University of Bombay - Biology 1966 - BS - Andhra University - Biology Awards: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Fellow, Washington Academy of Sciences Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry Biotechnology Career Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Associate laureate, Rolex International Award for Enterprise Department and Center Affiliations: Center for Neuroscience Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Cancer Center Genome Center Professional Societies: Society for Neuroscience International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Publications: Choudary et al. Altered cortical glutamatergic and GABAergic signal transmission and glial involvement in major depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102 (43):15653-15658, 2005. Evans et al. Dysregulation of the fibroblast growth factor system in major depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101(43):15506-11, 2004. [research highlights, Nature 431:1051, 2004]. Li et al. Systematic changes in gene expression in postmortem human brains associated with tissue pH and terminal medical conditions. Human Molecular Genetics 13(6):609-16, 2004. [news and views in brief, Nature 427: 501, 2004]. Tomita et al. Effect of agonal and postmortem factors on gene expression profile: quality control in microarray analyses of postmortem human brain. Biological Psychiatry 55(4):346-352, 2004. Research Interests: 1. Functional genomics of the central nervous system in health and in disease, with a primary focus on mood disorders and schizophrenia. Microarray, Differential Display, and SNP genotyping are the key technologies employed in these investigations. 2. Exploring regulation of gene expression using eukaryotic host systems. Teaching Interests:Functional genomics and molecular neuroscience Courses Taught: NSC 247 Functional Neurogenomics - Term(s): Spring FRS 004 What Makes You Unique? Your Genome! - Term(s): Winter |
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