Shivashankar Group

Saradha VENKATACHALAPATHY

PhD Student, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore

E0018317@u.nus.edu
Level 10 T-Lab
National University of Singapore
5A Engineering Drive 1
Singapore 117411

How is hematopoiesis regulated by mechanics?

How is hematopoiesis regulated by mechanics? Once blood circulation is established during the earliest stages of hematopoiesis, the pulsatile nature of blood flow within the aorta generates a range of biomechanical forces, such as [...]

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How are adherens junctions assembled?

How are adherens junctions assembled? Introduction to the Assembly of Adherens Junctions In situations where migrating cells first encounter each other to form junctions, changes in cellular morphology have been observed and correlated with [...]

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How are tight junctions assembled?

How are tight junctions assembled? The epithelial tissue is held intact by the formation of tight junctions between cells. The basic functional units that form adhesive contacts across cells are the tight junction strands, [...]

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What are tight junctions?

What are tight junctions? Tight junctions, also known as Zonula Occludens, are cell-cell adhesion complexes that play a role in the organization of epithelial tissue. By forming a meshwork of membrane contacts around the [...]

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What are anchoring junctions?

What are anchoring junctions? Cells adhere to the ECM, or to other cells, via complexes that can collectively be called anchoring junctions (reviewed in [1][2]). These multiprotein complexes are found in all cell types [...]

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How do post-translational modifications of cell-cell adhesions impact their stability?

How do post-translational modifications of cell-cell adhesions impact their stability? Post-translational modification of adhesion complex components is one of the most complicated aspects in the regulation of cell-cell adhesions. It involves an array of [...]

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Saradha Venkatachalapathy

PhD Student

Principal Investigator

GV Shivashankar

Research Interests

Molecular Mechanisms of Mechanobiology

Recent Publications

  1. Venkatachalapathy S, Sreekumar D, Ratna P, and Shivashankar GV. Actomyosin contractility as a mechanical checkpoint for cell state transitions. Sci Rep 2022; 12(1):16063. [PMID: 36163393]
  2. Venkatachalapathy S, Jokhun DS, Andhari M, and Shivashankar GV. Single cell imaging-based chromatin biomarkers for tumor progression. Sci Rep 2021; 11(1):23041. [PMID: 34845273]
  3. Yang KD, Belyaeva A, Venkatachalapathy S, Damodaran K, Katcoff A, Radhakrishnan A, Shivashankar GV, and Uhler C. Multi-domain translation between single-cell imaging and sequencing data using autoencoders. Nat Commun 2021; 12(1):31. [PMID: 33397893]
  4. Yang KD, Damodaran K, Venkatachalapathy S, Soylemezoglu AC, Shivashankar GV, and Uhler C. Predicting cell lineages using autoencoders and optimal transport. PLoS Comput. Biol. 2020; 16(4):e1007828. [PMID: 32343706]
  5. Venkatachalapathy S, Jokhun DS, and Shivashankar GV. Multivariate analysis reveals activation-primed fibroblast geometric states in engineered 3D tumor microenvironments. Mol. Biol. Cell 2020;:mbcE19080420. [PMID: 32023167]
  6. Damodaran K, Venkatachalapathy S, Alisafaei F, Radhakrishnan AV, Sharma Jokhun D, Shenoy VB, and Shivashankar GV. Compressive force induces reversible chromatin condensation and cell geometry dependent transcriptional response. Mol. Biol. Cell 2018;:mbcE18040256. [PMID: 30256731]
  7. Roy B, Venkatachalapathy S, Ratna P, Wang Y, Jokhun DS, Nagarajan M, and Shivashankar GV. Laterally confined growth of cells induces nuclear reprogramming in the absence of exogenous biochemical factors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018;. [PMID: 29735717]
  8. Belyaeva A, Venkatachalapathy S, Nagarajan M, Shivashankar GV, and Uhler C. Network analysis identifies chromosome intermingling regions as regulatory hotspots for transcription. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2017;. [PMID: 29229825]
  9. Radhakrishnan AV, Jokhun DS, Venkatachalapathy S, and Shivashankar GV. Nuclear Positioning and Its Translational Dynamics Are Regulated by Cell Geometry. Biophys. J. 2017; 112(9):1920-1928. [PMID: 28494962]
  10. Mitra A, Venkatachalapathy S, Ratna P, Wang Y, Jokhun DS, and Shivashankar GV. Cell geometry dictates TNFα-induced genome response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2017;. [PMID: 28461498]
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About the National University of Singapore

About NUSA leading global university centred in Asia, NUS is Singapore's flagship university, offering a global approach to education and research with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise.

About the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore

About MBIOne of four Research Centres of Excellence at NUS, MBI is working to identify, measure and describe how the forces for motility and morphogenesis are expressed at the molecular, cellular and tissue level.
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