Vasudha Srivastava, PhD
Specialist
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
School of Pharmacy

Education & Training

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• Postdoc Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California San Francisco 06/2021
• PhD Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Johns Hopkins University 05/2015
• BS/MS Biochemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 08/2009

Interests

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• Biophysics
• Cancer Biology
• Tissue Engineering
• Mechanobiology

Websites

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• Gartner Lab (UCSF) (gartnerlab.ucsf.edu)

Publications (19)

Top publication keywords:
Cell ShapeMammary Glands, AnimalActin CytoskeletonOrganoidsEphrinsModels, BiologicalStress, MechanicalMammary Glands, HumanMicrofilament ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsCytokinesisMyosin Type IIDictyosteliumCytoskeletonProtozoan Proteins

• MAGIC matrices: freeform bioprinting materials to support complex and reproducible organoid morphogenesis.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Graham AJ, Khoo MWL, Srivastava V, Viragova S, Kim H, Parekh K, Hennick KM, Bird M, Goldhammer N, Yu JZ, Morley CD, Lebel P, Kumar S, Rosenbluth JM, Nowakowski TJ, Klein O, Gómez-Sjöberg R, Gartner ZJ
• Patterning and folding of intestinal villi by active mesenchymal dewetting.
  Cell 2024 Huycke TR, Häkkinen TJ, Miyazaki H, Srivastava V, Barruet E, McGinnis CS, Kalantari A, Cornwall-Scoones J, Vaka D, Zhu Q, Jo H, Oria R, Weaver VM, DeGrado WF, Thomson M, Garikipati K, Boffelli D, …
• Patterning and folding of intestinal villi by active mesenchymal dewetting.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Huycke TR, Miyazaki H, Häkkinen TJ, Srivastava V, Barruet E, McGinnis CS, Kalantari A, Cornwall-Scoones J, Vaka D, Zhu Q, Jo H, DeGrado WF, Thomson M, Garikipati K, Boffelli D, Klein OD, Gartner ZJ
• Configurational entropy is an intrinsic driver of tissue structural heterogeneity.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Srivastava V, Hu JL, Garbe JC, Veytsman B, Shalabi SF, Yllanes D, Thomson M, LaBarge MA, Huber G, Gartner ZJ
• Programming the Self-Organization of Endothelial Cells into Perfusable Microvasculature.
  Tissue engineering. Part A 2023 Cabral KA, Srivastava V, Graham AJ, Coyle MC, Stashko C, Weaver V, Gartner ZJ

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• EPH/EPHRIN regulates cellular organization by actomyosin contractility effects on cell contacts.
  The Journal of cell biology 2021 Kindberg AA, Srivastava V, Muncie JM, Weaver VM, Gartner ZJ, Bush JO
• Organoid models for mammary gland dynamics and breast cancer.
  Current opinion in cell biology 2020 Srivastava V, Huycke TR, Phong KT, Gartner ZJ
• MULTI-seq: sample multiplexing for single-cell RNA sequencing using lipid-tagged indices.
  Nature methods 2019 McGinnis CS, Patterson DM, Winkler J, Conrad DN, Hein MY, Srivastava V, Hu JL, Murrow LM, Weissman JS, Werb Z, Chow ED, Gartner ZJ
• Contractility kits promote assembly of the mechanoresponsive cytoskeletal network.
  Journal of cell science 2019 Kothari P, Srivastava V, Aggarwal V, Tchernyshyov I, Van Eyk JE, Ha T, Robinson DN
• Characterizing cellular mechanical phenotypes with mechano-node-pore sensing.
  Microsystems & nanoengineering 2018 Kim J, Han S, Lei A, Miyano M, Bloom J, Srivastava V, Stampfer MM, Gartner ZJ, LaBarge MA, Sohn LL
• Cigarette smoke disrupts monolayer integrity by altering epithelial cell-cell adhesion and cortical tension.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2017 Nishida K, Brune KA, Putcha N, Mandke P, O'Neal WK, Shade D, Srivastava V, Wang M, Lam H, An SS, Drummond MB, Hansel NN, Robinson DN, Sidhaye VK
• Cell Blebbing in Confined Microfluidic Environments.
  PloS one 2016 Ibo M, Srivastava V, Robinson DN, Gagnon ZR
• Mechanoaccumulative Elements of the Mammalian Actin Cytoskeleton.
  Current biology : CB 2016 Schiffhauer ES, Luo T, Mohan K, Srivastava V, Qian X, Griffis ER, Iglesias PA, Robinson DN
• Cytokinesis: Robust cell shape regulation.
  Seminars in cell & developmental biology 2015 Srivastava V, Iglesias PA, Robinson DN
• Mechanical stress and network structure drive protein dynamics during cytokinesis.
  Current biology : CB 2015 Srivastava V, Robinson DN
• Mimicking the mechanical properties of the cell cortex by the self-assembly of an actin cortex in vesicles.
  Applied physics letters 2014 Luo T, Srivastava V, Ren Y, Robinson DN
• A summer academic research experience for disadvantaged youth.
  CBE life sciences education 2013 Kabacoff C, Srivastava V, Robinson DN
• A novel role for aquaporin-5 in enhancing microtubule organization and stability.
  PloS one 2012 Sidhaye VK, Chau E, Srivastava V, Sirimalle S, Balabhadrapatruni C, Aggarwal NR, D'Alessio FR, Robinson DN, King LS
• Understanding the cooperative interaction between myosin II and actin cross-linkers mediated by actin filaments during mechanosensation.
  Biophysical journal 2012 Luo T, Mohan K, Srivastava V, Ren Y, Iglesias PA, Robinson DN