Sathvik Palakurty

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Miami, 2019

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
Alphavirus entry, structure, and function

I work on the entry, structure, and function of encephalitic alphaviruses.

Graduate publications
Palakurty S, Raju S, Sariol A, Chong Z, Wagoner N, Ma H, Zimmerman O, Adams LJ, Carmona C, Liu Z, Fremont DH, Whelan SPJ, Klimstra WB, Diamond MS. 2024 The VLDLR entry receptor is required for the pathogenesis of multiple encephalitic alphaviruses. Cell Rep, 43(10):114809. PMCID: PMC11568480

Wong P, Foltz JA, Chang L, Neal CC, Yao T, Cubitt CC, Tran J, Kersting-Schadek S, Palakurty SX, Jaeger N, Russler-Germain DA, Marin ND, Gang M, Wagner JA, Zhou AY, Jacobs MT, Foster M, Schappe T, Marsala L, McClain E, Pence P, Becker-Hapak M, Fisk B, Petti AA, Griffith OL, Griffith M, Berrien-Elliott MM, Fehniger TA. 2023 T-BET and EOMES sustain mature human NK cell identity and anti-tumor function. J Clin Invest, 133(13)::e162530. PMCID: PMC10313375

Zimmerman O, Zimmerman MI, Raju S, Nelson CA, Errico JM, Madden EA, Holmes AC, Hassan AO, VanBlargan LA, Kim AS, Adams LJ, Basore K, Whitener BM, Palakurty S, Davis-Adams HG, Sun C, Gilliland T Jr, Earnest JT, Ma H, Ebel GD, Zmasek C, Scheuermann RH, Klimstra WB, Fremont DH, Diamond MS. 2023 Vertebrate-class-specific binding modes of the alphavirus receptor MXRA8. Cell, 186(22):4818-4833.e25. PMCID: PMC10615782