Avinash Ramu

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Current advisor: Barak A. Cohen, PhD

Undergraduate university: National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, 2010

Enrollment year: 2016

Research summary
Causes and consequences of cell-to-cell variability in gene expression

Graduate publications
Huang H, Pan J, Spielberg DR, Hanchard NA, Scott DA, Burrage LC, Dai H, Murdock D, Rosenfeld JA, Mohammad A, Huang T, Lindsey AG, Kim H, Chen J, Ramu A, Morrison SA, Dawson ZD, Hu AZ, Tycksen E, Silverman GA, Baldridge D, Wambach JA; Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Pak SC, Brody SL, Schedl T. 2022 A dominant negative variant of RAB5B disrupts maturation of surfactant protein B and surfactant protein C. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 119(6):e2105228119.

Laisk T, Soares ALG, Ferreira T, Painter JN, Censin JC, Laber S, Bacelis J, Chen CY, Lepamets M, Lin K, Liu S, Millwood IY, Ramu A, Southcombe J, Andersen MS, Yang L, Becker CM, Børglum AD, Gordon SD, Bybjerg-Grauholm J, Helgeland Ø, Hougaard DM, Jin X, Johansson S, Juodakis J, Kartsonaki C, Kukushkina V, Lind PA, Metspalu A, Montgomery GW, Morris AP, Mors O, Mortensen PB, Njølstad PR, Nordentoft M, Nyholt DR, Lippincott M, Seminara S, Salumets A, Snieder H, Zondervan K, Werge T, Chen Z, Conrad DF, Jacobsson B, Li L, Martin NG, Neale BM, Nielsen R, Walters RG, Granne I, Medland SE, Mägi R, Lawlor DA, Lindgren CM. 2020 The Genetic Architecture of Sporadic and Multiple Consecutive Miscarriage. Nat Commun, 11(1):5980.

Wagner AH, Devarakonda S, Skidmore ZL, Krysiak K, Ramu A, Trani L, Kunisaki J, Masood A, Waqar SN, Spies NC, Morgensztern D, Waligorski J, Ponce J, Fulton RS, Maggi LB Jr, Weber JD, Watson MA, O’Conor CJ, Ritter JH, Olsen RR, Cheng H, Mukhopadhyay A, Can I, Cessna MH, Oliver TG, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Griffith M, Griffith OL, Govindan R. 2018 Recurrent WNT pathway alterations are frequent in relapsed small cell lung cancer. Nat Commun, 9(1):3787.

Griffith M, Griffith OL, Krysiak K, Skidmore ZL, Christopher MJ, Klco JM, Ramu A, Lamprecht TL, Wagner AH, Campbell KM, Lesurf R, Hundal J, Zhang J, Spies NC, Ainscough BJ, Larson DE, Heath SE, et al. 2016 Comprehensive genomic analysis reveals FLT3 activation and a therapeutic strategy for a patient with relapsed adult B-lymphoblastic leukemia. Exp Hematol, 44(7):603-13.