Mahima Devarajan

UMN MSTP student Mahima Devarajan

Email: devar043@umn.edu

Entering Class: 2018

Education:
Case Western Reserve University
Biology major, Philosophy minor
B.S., 2017

MSTP Student Governance:

  • Student Advisory Committee 2019-2021

Honors and Awards:

  • Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows, National Institute on Aging, 2022-2025

Thesis Advisor: Douglas Mashek, Ph.D.

Thesis Research

Metabolic regulation of cellular senescence.

Publications (pubmed)

Najt CP, Devarajan M, Mashek DG. Perilipins at a glance. J Cell Sci. 2022 Mar 1;135(5):jcs259501. PMCID: PMC9014376

Work prior to the UMN MSTP:

Ferguson JW, Devarajan M, Atit RP. Stage-specific roles of Ezh2 and Retinoic acid signaling ensure calvarial bone lineage commitment. Dev Biol. 2018 Nov 15;443(2):173-187. PMCID: PMC6217976

Ferguson J, Devarajan M, DiNuoscio G, Saiakhova A, Liu CF, Lefebvre V, Scacheri PC, Atit RP. PRC2 Is Dispensable in Vivo for β-Catenin-Mediated Repression of Chondrogenesis in the Mouse Embryonic Cranial Mesenchyme. G3 (Bethesda). 2018 Feb 2;8(2):491-503. PMCID: PMC5919733

Pleasant L, Ma Q, Devarajan M, Parameswaran P, Drake K, Siroky B, Shay-Winkler K, Robbins J, Devarajan P. Increased susceptibility to structural acute kidney injury in a mouse model of presymptomatic cardiomyopathy. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2017 Sep 1;313(3):F699-F705. PMCID: PMC5625099

Wunderlich M, Stockman C, Devarajan M, Ravishankar N, Sexton C, Kumar AR, Mizukawa B, Mulloy JC. A xenograft model of macrophage activation syndrome amenable to anti-CD33 and anti-IL-6R treatment. JCI Insight. 2016 Sep 22;1(15):e88181. PMCID: PMC5033750

Arya R, Gillespie CW, Cnaan A, Devarajan M, Clark P, Shinnar S, Vinks AA, Mizuno K, Glauser TA; Childhood Absence Epilepsy Study Group. Obesity and overweight as CAE comorbidities and differential drug response modifiers. Neurology. 2016 Apr 26;86(17):1613-21. PMCID: PMC4844235