Publications

2023

  1. Chaitali Ghosh, M. Soumya, Naveen Kumar, Chethan Kumar R, Soumya Gopal Joshi, Sampath Kumar, Suresh Subramani, Sunita Swain, Aeroplane wing, a new recessive autosomal phenotypic marker in the malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi Liston, Heliyon, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23693.
  2. Farah Ishtiaq, Wastewater-based surveillance of vector-borne pathogens: a cautionary note, Trends in Parasitology, December 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2023.12.005.
  3. Stanley SM, Khera HK, Chandrasingh S, George CE, Mishra RK. A comprehensive review of dengue with a focus on emerging solutions for precision and timely detection. Int J Biol Macromol. 2024 Jan;254 (Pt 1) : 127613. Epub 2023 Oct 22. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127613.
  4. Kour, N., Singh, J., Khera, H.K. Increasing Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Genes in Wastewater: Impact on Public Health. In: Shah, M.P. (eds) Genomics of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Industrial Wastewater Treatment. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44618-4_5
  5. Khera, H.K., Mishra, R. Nucleic Acid Based Testing (NABing): A Game Changer Technology for Public Health. Mol Biotechnol September 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12033-023-00870-4
  6. Shaw AG, Troman C, Akello JO, O’Reilly KM, Gauld J, Grow S, Grassly N, ….The Environmental Surveillance Working Group*. Defining a research agenda for environmental surveillance of pathogens. Nature Medicine. August 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02457-7
    *Farah Ishtiaq is part of the The Environmental Surveillance Working Group
  7. Wishard, Rohan, Ashok Karuppannasamy, Ramasamy Asokan, Bhargava Chikmagalur Nagaraja, Pradeep Chalapathi, Yogi Dhawane, Sampath Kumar S, Manamohan Maligeppagol, and Anil Rai. CRISPR/Cas9 Editing of Transformer2 Gene of the Oriental Fruit Fly, Bactrocera Dorsalis (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae) Leads to Intersex Phenotype. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 26(2):102105. June 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2023.102105
  8. Farah Ishtiaq. Ignoring wastewater is a wasted opportunity to improve disease response. Nature India ISSN 1755-3180 (online), June 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d44151-023-00073-5
  9. Ferraguti, M.,…Ishtiaq, F.,…Hellgren, O. … Marzal, A. Environmental, geographical and time-related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus), a globally invasive species. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 809–February 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13651
  10. Ghosh, C., Kumar, N., Kushwah, R.B.S. et al. Enrichment of phenotype among biological forms of Anopheles stephensi Liston through establishment of isofemale lines. Parasites Vectors 16, 79 February 2023.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-05696-2
  11. Lamba S, Ganesan S, Daroch N, Paul K, Joshi SG, Sreenivas D, Nataraj A, Srikantaiah V, Mishra R, Ramakrishnan U, Ishtiaq F. SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics and genomic surveillance to detect variants in wastewater – a longitudinal study in Bengaluru, India. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 11:100151. January 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lansea.2023.100151

2022

  1. Farah Ishtiaq. India must scale up wastewater analysis for health surveillance. Nature India (online). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d44151-022-00130-5
  2. Mansi Malik, Parvathy Vijayan, Deepak K. Jagannath, Rakesh K. Mishra, Anirudha Lakshminarasimhan. Sofosbuvir and its tri-phosphate metabolite inhibit the RNA- dependent RNA polymerase activity of non-structural protein 5 from the Kyasanur forest disease virus, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Volume 641,2023, pp 50-56, December 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.12.023
  3. Shagufta Khan, Rakesh K Mishra, Surabhi Srivastava. Epigenetic regulation of cis-regulatory elements and transcription factors during development. Perinatal and Developmental Epigenetics; Elsevier Translational Epigenetics Series, Vol 35. December 2022 (Book Chapter)ISBN: 9780128217856.
  4. Kannan, V., Mishra, R. and Meganathan, S. Wastewater surveillance for public health: Beyond the pandemic. Journal of Science Policy & Governance, Vol 21, 02. November 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.38126/JSPG210207
    Available at: https://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_1038126_jspg210207.html.
  5. Dhruv Chauhan, Nikhil Chakravarty, Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran, Akshaya Jayakarunakaran, Sanjeev Sinha, Rakesh Mishra, Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami, and Arunachalam Ramaiah. In Silico Genome Analysis Reveals the Evolution and Potential Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Structural Changes on Host Immune Evasion and Antiviral Therapeutics. Viruses, 14 (11): 2461. November 2022 https://doi.org/10.3390/v14112461
  6. Gustavo Garcia Jr, Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran, Yijie Wang, Joseph Ignatius Irudayam, Sebastian Castillo Cario, Chandani Sen, Shen Li, Yunfeng Li, Ashok Kumar, Karin Nielsen-Saines, Samuel W. French, Priya S. Shah, Kouki Morizono, Brigitte N. Gomperts, Arjun Deb, Arunachalam Ramaiah, and Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami. Hippo signaling pathway activation during SARS-CoV-2 infection contributes to host antiviral response. PLoS Biology, 20(11) November 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001851
  7. Subhashini Srinivasan, Chaitali Ghosh, Shrestha Das, Aditi Thakare, Siddharth Singh, Apoorva Ganesh, Harsh Mahawar, Aadhya Jaisimha, Mohanapriya Krishna, Aritra Chattopadhyay, Rishima Borah, Vikrant Singh, Soumya M, Naveen Kumar, Sampath Kumar, Sunita Swain & Suresh Subramani. Identification of a TNF-TNFR-like system in malaria vectors (Anopheles stephensi) likely to influence Plasmodium resistance. Scientific Reports 12, November 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23780-y
  8. Khera HK, Venugopal N, Karur RT, Mishra R, Kartha RV, Rajasimha HK. Building cross-border collaborations to increase diversity and accelerate rare disease drug development – meeting report from the inaugural IndoUSrare Annual Conference 2021. Therapeutic Advances in Rare Disease. October 2022;3.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/26330040221133124
  9. Khera, Harvinder Kour*., and Amit K. Srivastava. Genetic engineering of algae. In An Integration of Phycoremediation Processes in Wastewater Treatment, pp. 487-502. Elsevier, 2022. Book Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823499-0.00018-3
  10. Thirunavukarasou, Anand, Sweety Kaur, and Harvinder Kour Khera*. Metagenomics for Studying Microbes in Wastewater Treatment Plants. In Microbial Community Studies in Industrial Wastewater Treatment, pp. 171-183. CRC Press, 2022. Book Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003354147
  11. Jagannath DK, Valiyaparambil A, Viswanath VK, Hurakadli MA, Kamariah N, Jafer AC, Patole C, Pradhan S, Kumar N, Lakshminarasimhan A. Refolding and characterization of a diabody against Pfs25, a vaccine candidate of Plasmodium falciparum. Analytical Biochemistry: Methods in the Biological Sciences. 6; 655:114830. October 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2022.114830
  12. Moharir SC, Swarup G. Optineurin deficiency induces patchy hair loss but it is not sufficient to cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Molecular Basis of Disease. 1868(10):166470. October 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2022.166470
  13. Shweta Tendulkar, Sushmitha Hegde, Lovleen Garg, Aparna Thulasidharan, Bhagyashree Kaduskar, Anuradha Ratnaparkhi, Girish S Ratnaparkhi. Caspar, an adapter for VAPB and TER94, modulates the progression of ALS8 by regulating IMD/NFκB-mediated glial inflammation in a Drosophila model of human disease. Human Molecular Genetics, Volume 31, Issue 17, 1, Pp 2857–2875, September 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddac076
  14. Farhina Mozaffer, Gautam I. Menon, Farah Ishtiaq. Exploring the thermal limits of malaria transmission in the western Himalaya. Ecology and Evolution; 12 9. September 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9278
  15. Moharir SC, Thota SC, Goel A, Thakur B, Tandel D, Reddy SM, Vodapalli A, Singh Bhalla G, Kumar D, Singh Naruka D, Kumar A, Tuli A, Suravaram S, Chander Bingi T, Srinivas M, Mesipogu R, Reddy K, Khosla S, Harshan KH, Bharadwaj Tallapaka K, Mishra RK. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the air in Indian hospitals and houses of COVID-19 patients. Journal of Aerosol Science. 164:106002. August 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2022.106002
  16. SC Moharir, K Sirohi, G Swarup. Regulation of transferrin receptor trafficking by optineurin and its disease-associated mutants, Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science August 2022 (Book Chapter) ISSN 1877-1173, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pmbts.2022.06.019
  17. Sonia Q. Sen, Generating neural diversity through spatial and temporal patterning, Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2022, ISSN 1084-9521. June 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.06.002
  18. Moharir SC, Raghawan AK, Ramaswamy R, Swarup G. Autophagy-independent cytoprotection by optineurin from toxicity of aggregates formed by mutant huntingtin and mutant ataxin-3. The Journal of Biochemistry. 11;171(5):555-565. May 2022. DOI: 1093/jb/mvac011
  19. Muhammad Nihad P P, Rohini P D, Sutharsan G, Anagha Ajith P K, Sumitha M K, Shanmuga Priya A, Rahul P, Sasikumar V, Shaibal Dasgupta, Jayalakshmi Krishnan, Farah Ishtiaq. Island biogeography and human practices drive ecological connectivity in mosquito species richness in the Lakshadweep Archipelago. Scientific Reports. 16;12(1):8060. May 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11898-y.
  20. Rashmi U Pathak, Ashish Bihani, Rahul Sureka, Parul Varma & Rakesh K Mishra. In situ nuclear matrix preparation in Drosophila melanogaster embryos/tissues and its use in studying the components of nuclear architecture. Nucleus, 13:1, 116 128, March 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19491034.2022.2043608
  21. Avula Laxmaiah, Divya Tej Sowpati, Surabhi Srivastava, Manoj Murhekar, Rajkumar Hemalatha, Rakesh K Mishra. SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the city of Hyderabad, India in early 2021. IJID Regions, Vol 2, Pg 1-7. March 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijregi.2021.10.009
  22. Aditi Thakare, Chaitali Ghosh, Tejashwini Alalamath, Naveen Kumar, Himani Narang, Saurabh Whadgar, Kiran Paul, Shweta Shrotri, Sampath Kumar, M Soumya, Raksha Rao, Mahul Chakraborty, Bibha Choudhary, Susanta K. Ghosh, Suresh Subramani, Sunita Swain, Subhashini Srinivasan. The genome trilogy of Anopheles stephensi, an urban malaria vector, reveals structure of a locus associated with adaptation to environmental heterogeneity. Scientific Reports 12, 3610. March 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07462-3
  23. Tharak A, Kopperi H, Manupati H Kiran U, C. G. Gokulan, Moharir SC, Mishra RK, Mohan VS. Longitudinal and Long-term Wastewater Surveillance for COVID-19: Infection dynamics and Zoning of Urban Community. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(5), 2697; February 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052697
  24. Amanjot Singh, Arvind Reddy Kandi, Deepa Jayaprakashappa, Guillaume Thuery, Devam J. Purohit, Joern Huelsmeier, Rashi Singh, Sai Shruti Pothapragada, Mani Ramaswami, and Baskar Bakthavachalu. The transcriptional response to oxidative stress is independent of stress-granule formation. Molecular Biology of the Cell 33, No. 3. February 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E21-08-0418
  25. Bhagyashree Kaduskar, Raja Babu Singh Kushwah, Ankush Auradkar, Annabel Guichard, Menglin Li, Jared B. Bennett, Alison Henrique Ferreira Julio, John M. Marshall, Craig Montell & Ethan Bier. Reversing insecticide resistance with allelic-drive in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Communications 13, 291. January 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27654-1
  26. Beibei Wu, Arunachalam Ramaiah, Gustavo Garcia Jr., Spyridon Hasiakos, Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami and Sonal Srikanth. ORAI1 limits SARS-CoV-2 infection by regulating tonic type I IFN signaling. The Journal of Immunology. January 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2100742
  27. Rashid I, Campos M, Collier T, Crepeau M, Weakley A, Gripkey H, Lee Y, Schmidt H, Lanzaro G. Spontaneous mutation rate estimates for the principal malaria vectors Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles stephensi. Scientific Reports 2022; 12: 226. January 2022. DOI: 1038/s41598-021-03943-z.

2021

  1. Nikhil Hajirnis, Rakesh K Mishra. Homeotic Genes: Clustering, Modularity, and Diversity. Front Cell Dev Biol. August 2021 11;9:718308. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.718308
  2. Nikhil Chakravarty, Thrisha Senthilnathan, Sophia Paiola, Priya Gyani, Sebastian Castillo Cario, Estrella Urena, Akash Jeysankar, Prakash Jeysankar, Joseph Ignatius Irudayam, Sumathi Natesan Subramanian, Helen Lavretsky, Shantanu Joshi, Gustavo Garcia Jr., Arunachalam Ramaiah, Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami. Neurological pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic potential RNA viruses: a comparative analysis. FEBS Letters. 10 November 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14227
  3. Ming Li, Ting Yang, Michelle Bui, Stephanie Gamez, Tyler Wise, Nikolay P. Kandul, Junru Liu, Lenissa Alcantara, Haena Lee, Jyotheeswara R. Edula, Robyn Raban, Yinpeng Zhan, Yijin Wang, Nick DeBeaubien, Jieyan Chen, Héctor M. Sánchez C., Jared B. Bennett, Igor Antoshechkin, Craig Montell, John M. Marshall & Omar S. Akbari. Suppressing mosquito populations with precision guided sterile males. Nature Communications. 10 September 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25421-w
  4. Farah Ishtiaq. Ecology and evolution of avian malaria: Implications of land use changes and climate change on disease dynamics. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science. 3 June 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41745-021-00235-3
  5. Vysakh K. Viswanath, Suraj T. Gore, Ashwathi Valiyaparambil, Subhendhu Mukherjee, Anirudha Lakshminarasimhan. Plasmodium Chitinases: Revisiting a target of transmission‐blockade against malaria. Protein Science. 2 May 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4095
  6. Farah Ishtiaq, Sunita Swain, S. Sampath Kumar. Anopheles stephensi (Asian Malaria Mosquito). Trends in Parasitology, CellPress. 14 April 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2021.03.009
  7. Amanjot Singh, Joern Hulsmeier, Arvind Reddy Kandi, Sai Shruti Pothapragada, Jens Hillebrand, Arnas Petrauskas, Khushboo Agrawal, Krishnan RT, Devasena Thiagarajan, Deepa Jayaprakashappa, K VijayRaghavan, Mani Ramaswami, Baskar Bakthavachalu. Antagonistic roles for Ataxin-2 structured and disordered domains in RNP condensation. eLife. 10 March 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60326
  8. Mahul Chakraborty, Arunachalam Ramaiah, Adriana Adolfi, Paige Halas, Bhagyashree Kaduskar, Luna Thanh Ngo, Suvratha Jayaprasad, Kiran Paul, Saurabh Whadgar, Subhashini Srinivasan, Suresh Subramani, Ethan Bier, Anthony A. James & J. J. Emerson. Hidden genomic features of an invasive malaria vector,Anopheles stephensi, revealed by a chromosome-level genome assembly. BMC Biology. 10 February 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00963-z
  9. Srivastava, Amit Kumar, Tara Chand Yadav, Harvinder Kour Khera, Purusottam Mishra, Navdeep Raghuwanshi, Vikas Pruthi, and Ramasare Prasad. Insights into interplay of immunopathophysiological events and molecular mechanistic cascades in psoriasis and its associated comorbidities. Journal of Autoimmunity 118 (2021): 102614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2021.102614

2020

  1. Afiya Razia Chida, Samathmika Ravi, Suvratha Jayaprasad, Kiran Paul, Jaysmita Saha, Chinjusha Suresh, Saurabh Whadgar, Naveen Kumar, Raksha Rao K, Chaitali Ghosh, Bibha Choudhary, Suresh Subramani and Subhashini Srinivasan. A near-chromosome level genome assembly of Anopheles stephensi. Frontiers in Genetics. 16 November 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.565626
  2. Adriana Adolfi, Valentino M. Gantz, Nijole Jasinskiene, Hsu-Feng Lee, Kristy Hwang, Gerard Terradas, Emily A. Bulger, Arunachalam Ramaiah, Jared B. Bennett, J. J. Emerson, John M. Marshall, Ethan Bier & Anthony A. James. Efficient population modification gene-drive rescue system in the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi. Nature Communications. 3 November 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19426-0

2019

  1. Khera, Harvinder Kour*, and Koustav Maity. Rational design of next-generation therapeutic antibodies using protein engineering tools. In Next Generation Biomanufacturing Technologies, pp. 109-139. American Chemical Society, 2019. Book Chapter DOI: 10.1021/bk-2019-1329.ch006
  2. Sonia Sen and K. VijayRaghavan. Obituary: Heinrich Reichert (1949-2019). Development 19 August 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.183517
  3. Sonia Sen. Neurotransmitter Identity: A question of lineage. eLife. 7 May 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.47162
  4. Annabel Guichard, Tisha Haque, Marketta Bobik, Xiang-Ru S. Xu, Carissa Klanseck, Raja Babu Singh Kushwah, Mateus Berni, Bhagyashree Kaduskar, Valentino M. Gantz & Ethan Bier. Efficient allelic-drive in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 9 April 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09694-w