Visweswaran Ravikumar

Education

PhD Student - Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
MS, Biomedicine, University of Texas
BS, Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Research Interests

Computational Systems Biology
Cancer Biology
Bayesian statistics

Contact

Email: vravik@med.umich.edu

Mentors who have altered my life: My undergraduate research mentors who introduced me to the world of doing science, rather than simply reading about it.

In my time off, I enjoy: Lifting weights, running, hiking

What major, other than your own, would you enjoy? Being a scuba diving instructor :)

Select Publications

Reddy P, Zhao D, Ravikumar V, Lauder E, Li L, Sun Y, Oravecz-Wilson K, Brooks M, Keller E, Chen F, Maneix L, Santibanez A, Creighton C, Rao A. Inflammatory memory restrains intestinal stem cell regeneration. Res Sq [Preprint]. 2023 Mar 7:rs.3.rs-2566520. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2566520/v1. PMID: 36945465; PMCID: PMC10029116.
Scott AJ, Correa LO, Edwards DM, Sun Y, Ravikumar V, Andren AC, Zhang L, Srinivasan S, Jairath N, Verbal K, Muraszko K, Sagher O, Carty SA, Hervey-Jumper S, Orringer D, Kim MM, Junck L, Umemura Y, Leung D, Venneti S, Camelo-Piragua S, Lawrence TS, Ippolito JE, Al-Holou WN, Chinnaiyan P, Heth J, Rao A, Lyssiotis CA, Wahl DR. Metabolomic Profiles of Human Glioma Inform Patient Survival. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2023 Nov;39(13-15):942-956. doi: 10.1089/ars.2022.0085. Epub 2023 Apr 27. Erratum in: Antioxid Redox Signal. 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1089/ars.2022.0085.correx. PMID: 36852494; PMCID: PMC10655010.
Kumaraswamy A, Duan Z, Flores D, Zhang C, Sehrawat A, Hu YM, Swaim OA, Rodansky E, Storck WK, Kuleape JA, Bedi K, Mannan R, Wang XM, Udager A, Ravikumar V, Bankhead A 3rd, Coleman I, Lee JK, Morrissey C, Nelson PS, Chinnaiyan AM, Rao A, Xia Z, Yates JA, Alumkal JJ. LSD1 promotes prostate cancer reprogramming by repressing TP53 signaling independently of its demethylase function. JCI Insight. 2023 Aug 8;8(15):e167440. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.167440. PMID: 37440313; PMCID: PMC10445684.
Al-Holou WN, Wang H, Ravikumar V, Shankar S, Oneka M, Fehmi Z, Verhaak RG, Kim H, Pratt D, Camelo-Piragua S, Speers C, Wahl DR, Hollon T, Sagher O, Heth JA, Muraszko KM, Lawrence TS, de Carvalho AC, Mikkelsen T, Rao A, Rehemtulla A. Subclonal evolution and expansion of spatially distinct THY1-positive cells is associated with recurrence in glioblastoma. Neoplasia. 2023 Feb;36:100872. doi: 10.1016/j.neo.2022.100872. Epub 2023 Jan 6. PMID: 36621024; PMCID: PMC9841165.

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