Annapurna Pranatharthi Haran, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow
Home Country: India
Education:
Ph.D. in Allied Health Sciences(Medicine), St. John’s Medical College Hospital-National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.
Areas of Interest
To study the cell fate transitions of osteoprogenitors governed by YAP/TAZ mechano-transducers in the endochondral regeneration and repair processes of the long bone.
Annapurna joined McKay Orthopaedic Research Lab in fall 2020 and is working towards completing her post-doc work.
Publications:
- Pranatharthi A et al., "RhoC regulates radioresistance via crosstalk of ROCK2 with the DNA repair machinery in cervical cancer." J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2019; 38: 392.
- Pavana Thomas, Annapurna Pranatharthi, Cecil Ross & Sweta Srivastava., "RhoC: a fascinating journey from a cytoskeletal organizer to a Cancer stem cell therapeutic target." J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2019, 38:328.
- Pranatharthi Annapurna, Cecil Ross, and Sweta Srivastava. “Cancer Stem Cells and Radioresistance: Rho/ROCK Pathway Plea Attention.” Stem Cells International (2016): 5785786. PMC. Web. 18 Sept. 2017.
- Pattabiraman, C., Hong, S., Gunasekharan, V. K., Pranatharthi, A, et al., (2014). "CD66+ cells in cervical pre-cancers are partially differentiated progenitors with neoplastic traits." Cancer Res. 2014 Nov 15; 74(22): 6682–6692.
Preprints
- Rachel A Jesudasan, Kankadeb Mishra, Pranatharthi Annapurna et al., "Transcripts from multicopy gene families localizing to mouse Y long arm encode piRNAs and proteins." bioRxiv 407197.
- Hemakumar M. Reddy, Rupa Bhattacharya, Zeenath Jehan, Kankadeb Mishra, Pranatharthi Annapurna, et al., "Y chromosomal noncoding RNA regulates autosomal gene expression via piRNAs in mouse testis." bioRxiv 285429.
Fellowships:
Department of Biotechnology (M.Sc.)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Ph.D.)