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publications

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/

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

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.