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publications
Regulation of cardiac miR-208a, an inducer of obesity, by rapamycin and nebivolol
Published in Obesity, 2015
Recommended citation: Gul R, Mahmood A, Luck C, Lum-Naihe K, Alfadda AA, Speth RC, Pulakat L (2015) Regulation of cardiac miR-208a, an inducer of obesity, by rapamycin and nebivolol. Obesity 23:2251–2259. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/oby.21227
Differential Regulation of Cardiac Function and Intracardiac Cytokines by Rapamycin in Healthy and Diabetic Rats
Published in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2017
Recommended citation: Luck C, DeMarco VG, Mahmood A, Gavini MP, Pulakat L (2017) Differential Regulation of Cardiac Function and Intracardiac Cytokines by Rapamycin in Healthy and Diabetic Rats. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity 2017:e5724046. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2017/5724046/
Regulation of the cardioprotective adiponectin and its receptor AdipoR1 by salt
Published in Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology, 2017
Recommended citation: Arnold N, Mahmood A, Ramdas M, Ehlinger PP, Pulakat L (2017) Regulation of the cardioprotective adiponectin and its receptor AdipoR1 by salt. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 95:305–309. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6372100/
Cardiovascular disease progression in female Zucker Diabetic Fatty rats occurs via unique mechanisms compared to males
Published in Nature - Scientific Reports, 2017
A detailed investigation of phenotypical and mechanistic differences in progressionof hear disease in obese and diabetics males versus females
Recommended citation: Lum-Naihe K, Toedebusch R, Mahmood A, Bajwa J, Carmack T, Kumar SA, Ardhanari S, DeMarco VG, Emter CA, Pulakat L (2017) Cardiovascular disease progression in female Zucker Diabetic Fatty rats occurs via unique mechanisms compared to males. Sci Rep 7:17823. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18003-8
Differential Effects of β-Blockers, Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers, and a Novel AT2R Agonist NP-6A4 on Stress Response of Nutrient-Starved Cardiovascular Cells
Published in PLOS ONE, 2017
Recommended citation: Mahmood A, Pulakat L (2015) Differential Effects of β-Blockers, Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers, and a Novel AT2R Agonist NP-6A4 on Stress Response of Nutrient-Starved Cardiovascular Cells. PLOS ONE 10:e0144824. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0144824
Suppression of Inflammatory Cardiac Cytokine Network in Rats with Untreated Obesity and Pre-Diabetes by AT2 Receptor Agonist NP-6A4
Published in Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
Investigation of the effect of a novel AT2R agonist on heart function and cellular signalling in obese rats
Recommended citation: Gavini MP, Mahmood A, Belenchia AM, Beauparlant P, Kumar SA, Ardhanari S, DeMarco VG, Pulakat L (2021) Suppression of Inflammatory Cardiac Cytokine Network in Rats with Untreated Obesity and Pre-Diabetes by AT2 Receptor Agonist NP-6A4. Frontiers in Pharmacology 12 Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.693167. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.693167
The function of groups of neurons changes from moment to moment
Published in Current opinion in physiology, 2021
A review discussing how a inferring neural function from observed activity is incomplete without contextualizing the state of the organism and brain and considering time relative from onset of neural activity
Recommended citation: Lin J-Y, Stone BT, Herzog LE, Nanu R, Mahmood A, Katz DB (2021) The function of groups of neurons changes from moment to moment. Curr Opin Physiol 20:1–7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967145/
LiCl-induced sickness modulates rat gustatory cortical responses.
Published in PLOS Biology, 2022
Investigating how sickness modulates evoked taste responses in rats
Recommended citation: Stone BT, Lin J-Y, Mahmood A, Sanford AJ, Katz DB (2022) LiCl-induced sickness modulates rat gustatory cortical responses. PLOS Biology 20:e3001537. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001537
Coupled Dynamics of Stimulus-Evoked Gustatory Cortical and Basolateral Amygdalar Activity
Published in Journal of Neuroscience, 2023
Investigating coordination of taste-evoked activity in BLA and GC and phenomlogically testing whether they behave as a joint attractor network
Recommended citation: Mahmood A, Steindler J, Germaine H, Miller P, Katz DB (2023) Coupled Dynamics of Stimulus-Evoked Gustatory Cortical and Basolateral Amygdalar Activity. J Neurosci 43:386–404. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/43/3/386
talks
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teaching
Data Analysis and Statistics Workshop
Graduate and Senior Undergraduate Course, Brandeis University, Department of Biology, 2018
Teaching Assistant with Prof. Paul Miller. Held discussion sessions and performed grading of assignments.
Applied Statistical Computing in R
Graduate and Senior Undergraduate Course, Brandeis University, Department of Psychology, 2019
Teaching Assistant with Dr. Xiaodong Liu. Held discussion sessions, and performed grading of assignments.
Computational Neuroscience
Graduate and Senior Undergraduate Course, Brandeis University, Department of Biology, 2019
Teaching Assistant with Dr. Leandro Alonso. Prepared and delivered guest lectures, held discussion sessions, and performed grading of assignments.
Quantitative Skills Center
Tutor, Brandeis University, Department of Biology, 2019
Tutor for the Quantitative Skills Center at Brandeis. Provided assistance to Brandeis undergraduates who wanted help in mathematics or quantitative reasoning including calculus and statistics.
Advanced Data Analysis
Graduate Lecture, Brandeis University, Department of Biology, 2021
Prepared and delivered guest lectures on unsupervised clustering, Hidden Markov Modeling, and Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Modeling
Mentoring students and technicians (2013-Present)
Mentorship, Pulakat Lab (University of Missouri) and Katz Lab (Brandeis University), 2023
Recruited, trained, and mentored 4 undergradate, 1 post-baccalaureate, and 3 PhD rotation students to both support my projects and on independent projects.