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Ankur Nagaraja, Ph.D.

Molecular and Human Genetics

Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University

Year: Advanced Graduate Student

Mentor: Martin M. Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D.

Thesis Title: Gonadotropin Hormones and MicroRNAs in Ovarian Cancer and Female Reproduction

Publications:

Edson MA, Nagaraja AK, Matzuk MM. The mammalian ovary from genesis to revelation. Endocr Rev. 2009; in press.

Itman C, Small C, Griswold M, Nagaraja AK, Matzuk MM, Brown CW, Jans DA, Loveland KL. Developmentally regulated SMAD2 and SMAD3 utilization directs activin signaling outcomes. Dev Dyn. 2009; (238)7:1688-700.

Creighton CJ, Nagaraja AK, Hanash SM, Matzuk MM, Gunaratne PH. A bioinformatics tool for linking gene expression profiling results with public databases of microRNA target predictions. RNA. 2008; (14)11:2290-6.

Nagaraja AK, Agno JE, Kumar TR, Matzuk MM. Luteinizing hormone promotes gonadal tumorigenesis in inhibin-deficient mice. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2008; (294)1-2:19-28.

Nagaraja AK, Andreu-Vieyra C, Franco HL, Ma L, Chen R, Han DY, Zhu H, Agno JE, Gunaratne PH, DeMayo FJ, Matzuk MM. Deletion of Dicer in somatic cells of the female reproductive tract causes sterility. Mol Endocrinol. 2008; (22)10:2336-52.

Reid JG, Nagaraja AK, Lynn FC, Drabek RB, Muzny DM, Shaw CA, Weiss MK, Naghavi AO, Khan M, Zhu H, Tennakoon J, Gunaratne GH, Corry DB, Miller J, McManus MT, German MS, Gibbs RA, Matzuk MM, Gunaratne PH. Mouse let-7 miRNA populations exhibit RNA editing that is constrained in the 5'-seed/ cleavage/anchor regions and stabilize predicted mmu-let-7a:mRNA duplexes. Genome Res. 2008; (18)10:1571-81.