Dr. Vaishnavi Nagarajan

Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph. D. in “Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology” – University of Kansas (2019)
• B. Tech in Biotechnology – VIT University (2010)

Courses Taught

• Human Physiology (Lecture & Lab)
• Allied Health Physiology (Lecture & Lab)

Academic Interests

• Academic Interests
• Human Physiology
• Neurophysiology
• Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Microbiome and human neurological diseases

Scholarly Activity

• Sujan Devkota, Rui Zhou, Vaishnavi Nagarajan, Masato Maesako, Hung Do, Arshad Noorani, Caitlin Overmeyer, Sanjay Bhattarai, Justin T. Douglas, Anita Saraf, Yinglong Miao, Brian D. Ackley, Yigong Shi and Michael S. Wolfe Familial Alzheimer’s mutations stabilize synaptotoxic ɣ- Secretase- substrate complexes. Cell Reports. PMID: 38349793.
• Timmons, L., Luna, H., Martinez, J., Moore., Z, Nagarajan, V., and Asad, N., Systematic comparison of bacterial feeding strains for increased yield of C. elegans males by RNA interference-induced non-disjunction. FEBS Letters. PMID: 25066299.
• Hua Xiao, Patrick K. T. Shiu, Marta Gabryleska, Simon J. Conn, Abhishek Dey, Kausik Chakrabarti, Manuel Regouc, Martin Pichler, Ulf Andersson Vang Ørom, Gaetano Santulli, Satoshi Nishiwada, Ajay Goel, Vaishnavi Nagarajan, Lisa Timmons, Suresh K. Alahari, Noemi Laprovitera, Manuela Ferracin, Po Hu and Hailing Jin. The Non-Coding RNA Journal Club: Highlights on Recent Papers—7. Non-Coding RNA 2019, 5, 40.
• Khan, SS., Srivatsan, P., Nagarajan, V., Mukerjee, A., and Chandrasekaran, N. Interaction of silver nanoparticles (SNPs) with bacterial extracellular proteins (ECPs) and its adsorption isotherms and kinetics. Journal of Hazardous materials. 192(1):299-306.

Other Professional Experiences

• Postdoctoral Researcher - “Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) pathology”  Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas. (2019–2025)
•  Vice President - University of Kansas Postdoctoral Association (KUPA)  (2022-2024) 
•  Treasurer - University of Kansas Postdoctoral Association   (2021-2022)                                                                                        
•  Member - National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) (Until 2024)   
•  Executive Member - Graduate Student Organization  (2014-2015)