Postdoctoral Fellow (2016 – 2022)
email: ramya.varadarajan@nih.gov
phone: (301)496-1315
CURRENT POSITION
Carbone Cancer Center – Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
HISTORY
2005 – 2009 – B.S., Anna University, Government College of Technology GCT), Coimbatore, India
2009 – 2015 – Ph.D., University of Alberta (advisor: Dr. Shelagh Campbell)–
RESEARCH (in the Rusan Lab)
– Mechanisms of Pericentrin-Like-Protein (PLP) degradation
PUBLICATIONS from the RUSAN LAB (PubMed)
4. Galletta BJ#, Varadarajan R#, Fagerstrom CJ, Yang B, Haase KP, McJunkin K, Rusan NM. (2023) The E3 Ligase Poe Promotes Pericentrin Degradation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. Jun 21:mbcE22110534.
(#co-first author)
3. Swider ZT, Ng RK, Varadarajan R, Fagerstrom CJ, Rusan NM. (2019) Fascetto interacting protein ensures proper cytokinesis and ploidy. Molecular Biology of the Cell. Apr 1;30(8):992-1007.
2. Varadarajan R, Rusan NM. (2018) Bridging centrioles and PCM in proper space and time. Essays Biochem. Dec 7;62(6):793-801.
1. Varadarajan R, Hammer JA, Rusan NM. (2017) A centrosomal scaffold shows some self-control. J Biol Chem. 2017 Dec 15;292(50):20410-20411.