Sowmya Gunasekaran, MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Neurology
School of Medicine

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
SchizophreniaCalcium SignalingCatalytic DomainReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateCalcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2KineticsGlutamic AcidAnimalsSignal TransductionAgingMicroRNAsBrainHEK293 CellsCalmodulinModels, Animal

• Paradoxical mTORC1-Dependent microRNA-mediated Translation Repression in the Nucleus Accumbens of Mice Consuming Alcohol Attenuates Glycolysis.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Ehinger Y, Laguesse S, Phamluong K, Salvi A, Sei YJ, Hoisington ZW, Soneja D, Gunasekaran S, Nakamura K, Ron D
• BDNF in Ventrolateral Orbitofrontal Cortex to Dorsolateral Striatum Circuit Moderates Alcohol Consumption and Gates Alcohol Habit.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Gunasekaran S, Moffat JJ, Epstein JD, Phamluong K, Ehinger Y, Ron D
• miR-146a and miR-200b alter cognition by targeting NMDA receptor subunits.
  iScience 2022 Gunasekaran S, Omkumar RV
• Role of Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type II in Mediating Function and Dysfunction at Glutamatergic Synapses.
  Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2022 Mohanan AG, Gunasekaran S, Jacob RS, Omkumar RV
• Differential expression of miR-148b, miR-129-2 and miR-296 in animal models of schizophrenia-Relevance to NMDA receptor hypofunction.
  Neuropharmacology 2022 Gunasekaran S, Jacob RS, Omkumar RV
• Glu60 of α-Calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II mediates crosstalk between the regulatory T-site and protein substrate binding region of the active site.
  Archives of biochemistry and biophysics 2020 Madhavan M, Mohanan AG, Jacob RS, Gunasekaran S, Nair RR, Omkumar RV
• Cellular calcium signaling in the aging brain.
  Journal of chemical neuroanatomy 2017 Chandran R, Kumar M, Kesavan L, Jacob RS, Gunasekaran S, Lakshmi S, Sadasivan C, Omkumar RV