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
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