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Arundhati Gupta, MSc, PhD
- Postdoctoral Associate
Aru completed her bachelors and masters degrees from St. Xavier's College, India in 2013. She was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship and Lectureship from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India and worked as a fellow at Bose Institute, Kolkata, India before moving to the US to pursue doctoral studies. She earned her PhD in 2019 in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, completing her doctoral dissertation focusing on the role of viral immediate early genes in gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis, under Dr. J. Craig Forrest,. She is currently a post doctoral associate in Dr. Carolyn Coyne's lab in the Department of Pediatrics ( Division of Infectious Diseases) where she works with enteroviruses.
Education & Training
- BSc, St. Xavier's College, 2013
- PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 2019
Selected Publications
Wongsurawat T, Gupta A, Jenjaroenpun P, Owens S, Craig Forrest J, Nookaew I. R-loop-forming Sequences Analysis in Thousands of Viral Genomes Identify A New Common Element in Herpesviruses. Sci Rep. 2020;10(1):6389. 2020 Apr 14. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-63101-9
Salinas E., Gupta A., Sifford J.M., Oldenburg D.G., White D.W., and Forrest J.C. Conditional mutagenesis in vivo reveals cell type- and infection stage-specific requirements for LANA in chronic MHV68 infection. PLoS Pathog. 2018 Jan 24;14(1):e1006865
Gupta A., Oldenburg D.G., Salinas E., White D.W., and Forrest J.C. Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68 Expressing Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen (LANA) Reveals both Functional Conservation and Divergence in LANA Homologs. J Virol. 2017 Sep 12;91(19). pii: e00992-17.
Krishna M.B., Joseph A., Subramaniam A.G., Gupta A., Pillai S.M., and Laloraya M. Reduced Tregs inperipheral blood of PCOS patients - a consequence of aberrant Il2 signaling. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Jan; 100(1):282-92