Reviewer
Ankita Sarkar
  • Industry Scientist, Rheonix Inc
Research fields
  • Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience
Personal information

Education

Doctorate, University of Dayton, Ohio, 2018

Lab information

Amit Singh Lab
https://academic.udayton.edu/amitsingh/as2/page1.htm

Research focus

Ph.D : Drosophila development and molecular genetics of Alzheimer’s diseases

Postdoc: Understanding the regulation of PS exposure in Wallerian degeneration and neurodegenerative diseases

Scientist: Lead the development and qualification of innovative COVID-19 and other disease related assays with the help of immuno/cellular and molecular methods on integrated plastic chip platform for in-vitro diagnostic use.

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TuEj2ZkAAAAJ&hl=en
PUBLICATIONS (TOTAL: 16)

RESEARCH ARTICLES (13)

1. Ji, H., Sapar, M.L., Sarkar, A., Wang, B and Han, C. (2022) Phagocytosis and self-destruction break down dendrites of Drosophila sensory neurons at distinct steps of Wallerian degeneration. PNAS.

2. Allen, S.E*., Koreman, G.T*., Sarkar, A*., Wang, B., Wolfner, M.F and Han, C. (2021) Versatile CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mosaic analysis by gRNA-induced crossing-over for unmodified genomes. (* Equal Contribution). (Preprint in bioRxiv). PLoS Biology.

3. Yeates, C.J., Sarkar, A., Deshpande, P., Kango-Singh, M and Singh, A. (2020) A twoclone approach to study signaling interactions among neuronal cells in a pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease model. iScience.

4. Sapar, M.L*., Sarkar, A*., Ji, H*., Wang, B and Han, C. (2020) Phagocytosis drives NAD+ reduction-induced dendrite degeneration in Drosophila. (* Equal Contribution). Submitted to eLife. (Preprint in bioRxiv).

5. Gogia, N., Sarkar, A., Mehta, A.S., Ramesh, N., Deshpande, P., Kango-Singh, M., Pandey, U.B and Singh, A. (2020). Inactivation of Hippo and cJun-N-terminal Kinase (JNK) signaling mitigate FUS mediated neurodegeneration in vivo. Neurobiology of Disease.

6. Sarkar, A., Gogia, N., Glenn, N., Singh, A., Jones, G., Powers, A., Srivastava, A., Kango-Singh, M and Singh, A. (2018). A soy protein Lunasin can block Aβ42 mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease. Scientific Reports.

7. Sarkar, A., Gogia, N., Farley, K., Payton, L and Singh, A. (2018). Characterization of a Morphogenetic Furrow specific Gal4 driver in the developing Drosophila eye. PLoS ONE.

8. Gogia, N., Sarkar, A and Singh, A. (2017). An undergraduate cell biology lab: Western Blotting to detect proteins from Drosophila eye. Drosophila Information Service.

9. Tare, M., Sarkar, A., Bedi, S., Kango-Singh, M. and Singh, A. (2016) Cullin-4 regulates Wingless and JNK signaling-mediated cell death in the Drosophila eye. Cell Death and Disease.

10. Sarkar, A., Irwin, M., Singh, A., Riccetti, M. and Singh, A. (2016) Drosophila eye as a model for Alzheimer’s Disease: The silver Tsunami of the 21st century. (Review) Neural Regeneration Research.

11. Wittkorn, E., Sarkar, A., Garcia, K., Kango-Singh, M. and Singh, A. (2015) The Hippo pathway effector Yki downregulates Wg Signaling to promote retinal differentiation in the Drosophila eye. Development.

12. Cutler, T.*, Sarkar, A*., Moran, M., Steffensmeier, A., Puli, O.R., Mancini, G., Tare, M., Gogia, N., Irwin, M., Kango-Singh, M. and Singh, A. (2015) Drosophila Eye Model to Study Neuroprotective Role of CREB Binding Protein (CBP) in Alzheimer’s Disease. PLoS ONE (* Equal Contribution).

13. Singh, M., Sasmal Ayan, K., Sarkar, A. (2012) “DNA shielding property of tea leaf (Camellia sinensis) extracts against reactive oxygen species”. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (JPBMS).


BOOK CHAPTER (1)

1. Yeates, C.J., Sarkar, A., Kango-Singh, M and Singh, A. (2019). “Unraveling Alzheimer’s disease using Drosophila”. Mutsuddi, M. and Mukherjee, A.(eds.). Insights into Human Neurodegeneration: Lessons learnt from Drosophila (Editor), Springer Singapore, Publication: 2019 | ISBN# 978-981-13-2217-4 | Edition: 2019



PROTOCOLS (1)

1. Singh, A., Deshpande, P., Yeates, C.J., Sarkar, A., Chimata, A.V., Kango-Singh, M and Singh, A. (2022) Protocol to develop a two-clone system to study signaling interactions among neuronal cells in a pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease model. Submitted to STAR Protocols.


BLOG (1)

1. Potential role of exosomes in Alzheimer’s research. Published in Neucrad.com on November 25th,2019.http://www.neucrad.com/2019/11/24/potential-role-ofexosomes-in-alzheimers-research/
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