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Medical Scientist Training Program
Anooj Arkatkar

Anooj Arkatkar

G1 Student

Faculty Advisor

  • Michaela Patterson, PhD, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, 2020

Research Interests

Bioinformatics, precision medicine, genomics

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2025-Present
Advisor: Michaela Patterson, PhD

Children's Hospital of Michigan, May 2022-May 2023
Advisor: Usha Sethuraman, MD
Project: Predicting concussion outcomes with salivary miRNA

Michigan State University, Sep 2017-May 2023
Advisor: John LaPres, PhD
Project: Genetic variability in the murine response to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)

Publications

Swift SK, Purdy AL, Buddell T, Lovett JJ, Chanjeevaram SV, Arkatkar A, O'Meara CC, Patterson M. A broadly applicable method for quantifying cardiomyocyte cell division identifies proliferative events following myocardial infarction. Cell Rep Methods. 2024 Sep 16;4(9):100860. doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2024.100860. Epub 2024 Sep 9. PMID: 39255794; PMCID: PMC11440799.

Lelak, K, Arora R, Mowbray F, Arkatkar A, Krouse C, Cloutier D, Donoghue L, Sethuraman U. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Epinephrine Use in Pediatric Traumatic Cardiac Arrest. The American Surgeon. 2022 May 2. doi:10.1177/00031348221094213

Jurgelewicz A, Dornbos P, Warren M, Nault R, Arkatkar A, Lin H, Threadgill DW, Zacharewski T, LaPres JJ. Genetics-Based Approach to Identify Novel Genes Regulated by the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Mouse Liver. Toxicol Sci. 2021 May 27;181(2):285-294. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfab032. PMID: 33720361; PMCID: PMC8599770.

Dornbos P, Arkatkar A, LaPres J. An Automated Method To Predict Mouse Gene and Protein Sequences Using Variant Data. G3 (Bethesda). 2020 Mar 5;10(3):925-932. doi: 10.1534/g3.119.400983. PMID: 31911484; PMCID: PMC7056971.

Meeting Abstracts

Arkatkar A, Jurgelwicz A, LaPres J. The role of TSPO in modulating the Kynurenine Pathway in a mouse microglial cell line. Michigan State University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum. Apr 5, 2019. [Poster]

General Interests

Playing violin, soccer (pickup or freestyle), cooking/baking, and coding

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