The Team
The research in the Pattabiraman lab is carried out by a team of intelligent and smart minds including postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduates, medical students, and school students.
Padmanabhan P Pattabiraman
Lab Director
I'm an Assistant Professorship at the Glick Eye Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine since August 2019. I did my Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, from the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, and postdoctoral fellowships at the Department of Neuroscience and Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, NC. After a research track position at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH, I moved as a tenure track faculty to IUSM.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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Avinash Soundararajan
Postdoctoral Fellow
I joined the lab in Nov 2019 after finishing my PhD from Deakin Univ, Australia in April 2019. Currently, I'm studying the role of the chaperone protein clusterin in the regulation of IOP. I am also studying the clusterin-cathepsin k axis in the modulation of actin-based TM contractility and ECM-based stiffness.
Ting Wang
PhD Candidate
I joined the lab in June 2020 after a rotation in Jan-Feb 2020. I am under the Medical Neuroscience Program. Towards a novel mechanism and therapeutic target discovery for IOP lowering by clusterin/apolipoprotein J (apo J), I'm studying how apo J and lipids modulate actin-mediated TM cell contractility/stiffness and IOP.
Anoop Magesh
Research Assistant
I recently graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington majoring in Biology. Currently, as a research analyst in the lab of Dr. Pattabiraman, I am looking at the binding partners of clusterin in the TM. Additionally, I am interested in understanding the pathophysiological implications of stressors implicated in the TM outflow and IOP regulation.
Lulya Fecadu
LHSI Undergrad studentship
I'm an undergrad from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Biology. I am interested in understanding the regulation of aqueous humor drainage and mainly focussing on the role of cathepsin K on the TM outflow and IOP regulation.
Chevy Singh
Medical Student
I joined the lab as an IMPRS student in June 2020. I got interested in the research problem on how high glucose affects TM biology. I have been working in the lab whenever I get time in between my academic time. I am aiming to match into an Ophthalmology residency.
Jamie Surgent-Nahay
Medical Student
I am a Medical Student at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. I work at the Pattabiraman Lab off-site on glacucoma pharmacology.