Niranjana Natarajan

Niranjana Natarajan

CMP PhD Student

Harvard University


Awards and Honors

American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2014-2016) – Maggie Wimsatt Memorial Award

Poster Award – “Host” – Microbiome interactions”, NIH NIDDK, September 9-10, 2014, Bethesda, MD

Caroline tum Suden Professional Opportunity Award, Experimental Biology April 2-6, 2016

Research Interests

Interplay of GPCRs and microbiota in blood pressure regulation.

Publications

  1. Wei, Z., Seldin, MM., Natarajan, N., Djemal, DC., Peterson, JM. and Wong, GW. C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein 11 (CTRP11), a novel adipose stroma-derived regulator of adipogenesis. J. Biol. Chem. 288, 10214–29 (2013). PMID: 23449976, PMCID: PMC3624406
  1. Shepard, B. D., Natarajan, N., Protzko, R. J., Acres, O. W. and Pluznick, J. L. A cleavable N-terminal signal peptide promotes widespread olfactory receptor surface expression in HEK293T cells. PLoS ONE 8, e68758 (2013). PMID: 23840901, PMCID: PMC3698168
  2. Natarajan, N. and Pluznick, J. L. From microbe to man: the role of microbial short chain fatty acid metabolites in host cell biology. Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol. 307, C979–85 (2014). PMID: 25273884
  3. Natarajan, N. and Pluznick, J. L. Olfaction in the Kidney: ‘Smelling’ gut microbial metabolites. Exp. Physiol. (2015). doi:10.1113/EP085285. PMID: 26238273