I did my postdoctoral research at the MRC-Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, working with Professor Nick Hastie on post transcriptional regulatory cascades in nephrogenesis. I have done my PhD with Professor Tapas Kundu, Transcription and Disease Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, on understanding the role of chromatin modifications in differentiation and disease. During my PhD, I was also associated with collaborative projects involving developing tools at the interface of chemistry and biology for drug targeting in disease conditions.
I have completed my Master’s in Biotechnology from the School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University and my undergraduate degree is in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Mumbai. I was born in Chennai, and most of my education was in Mumbai.
1. Roy A, Padhi SS, Khyriem I, Nikose S, Sankar S H H, Bharathavikru RS. 2022. Resetting
the epigenome: Methylation dynamics in cancer stem cells. Front Cell Dev Biol. 10:909424.
doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.909424. PMID: 36225315; PMCID: PMC9549938.
2. Dey S, Misra A, Bharathavikru RS. (2022). Long Non-coding RNAs, Lnc(ing) RNA
Metabolism to Cancer Biology. Metabolism and Epigenetic Regulation: Implications in
Cancer. Subcell Biochem (in press). Vol. 100, Metabolism and Epigenetic Regulation:
Implications in Cancer, Tapas Kumar Kundu and Chandrima Das (Eds): 978-3-031-
07633-6, 500776.
3. Bharathavikru R*, Dudnakova T*, Aitken S, Slight J, Artibani M, Hohenstein P, Tollervey D,
Hastie ND. (2017) Transcription factor, Wilms Tumour 1 regulates developmental RNAs
through 3’ UTR interaction. Genes Dev 31:347-352
4. Bharathavikru R and Hastie ND (2018). Overgrowth Syndromes and Paediatric Cancers:
how many roads lead to IGF2? Genes Dev 32:993-995.
Ongoing:
1. CSIR-ASPIRE: Delineating transcriptional and post transcriptional regulatory mechanisms in nephropathies using genome edited cellular disease models (2024-2027)
2. Ramalingaswami Re Entry Fellowship: Kidney tissue homeostasis: role of epitranscriptome in podocyte biology (2020-2025)
Completed:
1. SERB-Start up Research Grant: Elucidating the role of epitranscriptome associated RNA processing in kidney tissue homeostasis
