Email

seervai@bcm.edu

Positions

Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

BA from Brown University

05/2013 - Providence, Rhode Island United States

Music

BSc from Brown University

05/2013 - Providence, Rhode Island United States

Biology

PhD from Baylor College of Medicine

09/2020 - Houston, Texas United States

Molecular & Cellular Biology

Professional Interests

• Mechanisms by which the epigenetic machinery regulates the cytoskeleton
• Molecular & Cellular Biology
• Mentor: Cheryl Walker, Ph.D.

Selected Publications

• Seervai RNH, Wessel GM "Lessons for inductive germline determination." Mol Reprod Dev. 2013 August ; 80 (8): 590-609. Pubmed PMID: 23450642
• Seervai RNH*, Jones SK Jr*, Hirakawa MP, Porman AM, Bennett RJ "Parasexuality and ploidy change in Candida tropicalis." Eukaryot Cell. 2013 December ; 12 (2): 1629-40. Pubmed PMID: 24123269
• "Comprehensive Molecular Characterization Identifies Distinct Genomic and Immune Hallmarks of Renal Medullary Carcinoma." Cancer Cell. 2020 May 11; 37 (5): 720-734. Pubmed PMID: 32359397
• Seervai RNH, Jangid RK, Karki M, Tripathi DN, Jung SY, Kearns SE, Verhey KJ, Cianfrocco MA, Millis BA, Tyska MJ, Mason FM, Rathmell WK, Park IY, Dere R, Walker CL "The Huntingtin-interacting protein SETD2/HYPB is an actin lysine methyltransferase." Science Advances. 2020 October 2; https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/40/eabb7854 : Pubmed PMID: 33008892

Funding

Predoctoral Fellowship - #19PRE34430069

$54,688.00 (01/01/2019 - 12/31/2020)

Grant funding from American Heart Association

BP America Biomedical Scholarship

$7,800.00 (07/01/2016 - 06/30/2017)

Grant funding from Baylor College of Medicine