Department Affiliations
Assistant Professor
Interests
| Education and Training | |
| 2015-present | Senior Scientist II, USAMRIID (contracting through Henry M Jackson Foundation in support of BHSAI), Frederick, MD Molecular and Translational Sciences Division |
| 2009-2015 | Research Faculty, USAMRIID (contracting through ORISE), Frederick, MD Molecular and Translational Sciences Division |
| 2007-2009 | Faculty, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, Dept. of Cell and Cancer Biology |
| 2004-2007 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, Dept. of Cell Biology |
| 1999-2004 | Doctoral Research Project, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH Projects |
| 1997-1999 | Senior Research Fellow, Osmania University, Telangana, India, Dept. of Microbiology |
| Teaching Activities | |
| 2001–2004 | Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH Research mentor for the following undergraduates, |
| 2001-2004Neeta Parimi | |
| 2001-2003 Received the “The Doretta Thielker Award for outstanding Biology senior”, in 2003 for her overall GPA and research contributions. (1 award annually per undergraduate Biology majors). | |
| 2004 Yadira Narvez, went on to work as Research Technician at Cleveland Clinic Foundation | |
| 1999–2003 | Teaching Assistant, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH - Human Anatomy and Physiology, Introductory Biology |
| 1997–1999 | Teaching Assistant , Osmania University, Telangana, India - Immunology, Molecular Biology |
| Honors and Awards | |
| 2007 | Scholarship for Keystone Symposium, February 2007, Keystone, Colorado. |
| 2001-2002 | Molecular Medicine Fellowship from Cleveland Clinic Foundation for a period two years |
| 2002 | Best poster award, Cleveland State University, OH. |
| 1996-1998 | Senior Research Fellowship |
| 1994-1996 | Meritorious Student Fellowship, Department of BiotechnologyM.Sc in Biotechnology for two years |
Publication
Mudhasani R, Tran JP, Retterer C, Kota KP, Whitehouse CA, Bavari S. Protein Kinase R Degradation Is Essential for Rift Valley Fever Virus Infection and Is Regulated by SKP1-CUL1-F-box (SCF)FBXW11-NSs E3 Ligase. PLoS Pathog. 2016 Feb 2;12(2). PMID: 26837067; PMCID: PMC4737497.
Mudhasani R*, Kota KP*, Retterer C, Tran JP, Tritsch SR, Zamani R, Whitehouse CA, Bavari S. High-content image-based screening of a signal transduction pathway inhibitor small-molecule library against highly pathogenic RNA viruses. * Equal contribution. J Biomol Screen. 2015, in the Special Edition of Infectious Diseases. Jan; 20(1):141-52. PMID: 25342145
Patursky-Polischuk I, Kasir J, Miloslavski R, Hayouka Z, Hausner-Hanochi M, Stolovich-Rain M, Tsukerman P, Biton M, Mudhasani R, Jones SN, Meyuhas O. Reassessment of the role of TSC, mTORC1 and microRNAs in amino acid-meditated translational control of TOP mRNAs. PLoS One. 2014 Oct 22;9(10). PMID: 25338081; PMCID: PMC4206288
Mudhasani R, Kota KP, Retterer C, Tran JP, Whitehouse CA, Bavari S. High content image-based screening of a protease inhibitor library reveals compounds broadly active against Rift Valley fever virus and other highly pathogenic RNA viruses. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Aug 21;8(8). PMID: 25144302; PMCID: PMC4140764
Miloslavski R, Cohen E, Avraham A, Iluz Y, Hayouka Z, Kasir J, Mudhasani R, Jones SN, Cybulski N, Rüegg MA, Larsson O, Gandin V, Rajakumar A, Topisirovic I, Meyuhas O. Oxygen sufficiency controls TOP mRNA translation via the TSC-Rheb-mTOR pathway in a 4E-BP-independent manner. J Mol Cell Biol. 2014 Jun;6(3):255-66. PMID: 24627160; PMCID: PMC4034726
Mudhasani R, Tran JP, Retterer C, Radoshitzky SR, Kota KP, Altamura LA, Smith JM, Packard BZ, Kuhn JH, Costantino J, Garrison AR, Schmaljohn CS, Huang IC, Farzan M, Bavari S. IFITM-2 and IFITM-3 but not IFITM-1 restrict Rift Valley fever virus. J Virol. 2013 Aug;87(15):8451-64. PMID: 23720721; PMCID: PMC3719792.
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