Email

tirumala@bcm.edu

Positions

Graduate student

Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Education

BS from SRM University

05/2011 - Chennai, India

Genetic Engineering

MSc from University of Central Lancashire

09/2012 - Preston, United Kingdom

Forensic DNA profiling

MS from Virginia Commonwealth University

08/2017 - Richmond, Virginia, United States

Human Genetics

Professional Interests

• Understanding regulatory mechanisms of gene expression to develop therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders

Selected Publications

• T.Mudariki, H.Pallikarana-Tirumala, L.Ives, S.Hadi, W.Goodwin. " A comparative study of two extraction methods routinely used for DNA recovery from simulated post coital samples " Forensic Sci. Int. Genet. Suppl. Ser.,. 2013 Nov 25; 4 (1) : E194-E195.
• A novel pathogenic mutation of MeCP2 impairs chromatin association independent of protein levels " ;
  Pubmed PMID: 37890975.
• Yingyao Shao, Sameer S Bajikar, Harini P Tirumala, Manuel Cantu Gutierrez, Joshua D Wythe, Huda Y Zoghbi. " Identification and characterization of conserved noncoding cis-regulatory elements that impact Mecp2 expression and neurological functions " Genes Dev.. 2021 Apr 1; 35 (7-8) : 489-494.
  Pubmed PMID: 33737384.
• Amritkumar Pavithra, Pallikarana Tirumala Harini, Jayasankaran Chandru, Chodisetty Sarvani, Rastogi Akanksha, Mathiyalagan Selvakumari, Mahalingam Subathra, Arabandi Ramesh, Srisailapathy Srikumari. " Is Screening for Mitochondrial A1555G Mutation among Assortative Mating Hearing Impaired Families Important? : A Prefatory Quest " Res Otolaryngol. 2014 Mar 1; 3 (1) : 1-7.