I'm from:
Coimbatore, India
What brought me here:
All I heard is ‘admitted to UC Berkeley’ and I had no second thoughts after that.
Current stage in program:
3rd year Metabolic Biology Ph.D. Candidate, Robert Ryan Lab
Outside of lab I love:
A few things I love include blues and swing dancing, exploring the city on the bike, traveling, going to musicals, plays, goofing around and climbing (will be making a serious commitment to that soon—lab work is not death-defying enough, clearly)
I look forward to getting a broader perspective on all aspects central to the dogma of life. My past experience has mostly revolved around the transcriptional processes and I am looking forward to completing the picture with the translational processes and how they affect us through the metabolic cycles. I wish to contribute something significant in medical science and you know, someday, it would be great to win the Nobel Prize for that! :) (My ultimate goals are fairly modest, nothing extreme.)
Publications
Krishnamoorthy A, Ajay AK, Hoffmann D, Kim TM, Ramirez V, Campanholle G, Bobadilla NA, Waikar SS, Vaidya VS. “Fibrinogen β-derived Bβ15-42 peptide protects against kidney ischemia/reperfusion injury.” Blood, 2011 Aug 18;118(7):1934-42. Krishnamoorthy A, Clement ME, O’Leary E, Bonventre JV, Vaidya VS. “TIM2 gene deletion results in susceptibility to cisplatin-induced kidney toxicity.” Toxicol Sci. 2010 Nov; 118(1):298-306. Qiu D, Xiang J, Li Z, Krishnamoorthy A, Chen L, Wang R. “Profiling TRA-1-81 antigen distribution on a human embryonic stem cell.” Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 May 2; 369(2):735-40.