Lavanya Challagundla
Assistant Professor
Department:
SOM-Cell and Molecular Biology
Email:
lchallagundla@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 984-1505
Education
| Mississippi State University, PhD, Biological Sciences | 2013 |
Current Positions
| Instructor, School of Medicine, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology | 08/2023 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Publications
Journal Article | |
| Chung WC, Wang W, Challagundla L, Moore CD, Egan SE, Xu K, Subtype-specific role for Jagged1 in promoting or inhibiting breast tumor formation. Oncogenesis, 2025 Jan 31;14(1):2 | 2025 |
| Rexrode LE, Hartley J, Showmaker KC, Challagundla L, Vandewege MW, Martin BE, Blair E, Bollavarapu R, Antonyraj RB, Hilton K, Gardiner A, Valeri J, Gisabella B, Garrett MR, Theoharides TC, Pantazopoulos H, Molecular profiling of the hippocampus of children with autism spectrum disorder. Molecular psychiatry, 2024 Jul;29(7):1968-1979 | 2024 |
| Smith AM, Challagundla L, McGee IG, Warfield ZJ, Santos CDSE, Garrett MR, Grayson BE, Temporal shifts to the gut microbiome associated with cognitive dysfunction following high-fat diet consumption in a juvenile model of traumatic brain injury. Physiological genomics, 2024 Apr 1;56(4):301-316 | 2024 |
| Swanson M, Yun J, Collier DM, Challagundla L, Dogan M, Kuscu C, Garrett MR, Regner KR, Chung JH, Park F, Removal of the catalytic subunit of DNA-protein kinase in the proximal tubules promotes DNA and tubular damage during kidney injury. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024 Aug 23; | 2024 |
| Hellmann KT, Challagundla L, Gray BM, Robinson DA, Improved Genomic Prediction of Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolation Sources with a Novel Polygenic Score. Journal of clinical microbiology, 2023 Mar 23;61(3):e0141222 | 2023 |
| Chung WC, Challagundla L, Zhou Y, Li M, Atfi A, Xu K, Loss of Jag1 cooperates with oncogenic Kras to induce pancreatic cystic neoplasms. Life science alliance, 2021 Feb;4(2) | 2021 |
| Kessler MD, Loesch DP, Perry JA, Heard-Costa NL, Taliun D, Cade BE, Wang H, Daya M, Ziniti J, Datta S, Celedón JC, Soto-Quiros ME, Avila L, Weiss ST, Barnes K, Redline SS, Vasan RS, Johnson AD, Mathias RA, Hernandez R, Wilson JG, Nickerson DA, Abecasis G, Browning SR, Zöllner S, O'Connell JR, Mitchell BD, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, TOPMed Population Genetics Working Group, O'Connor TD, De novo mutations across 1,465 diverse genomes reveal mutational insights and reductions in the Amish founder population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Feb 4;117(5):2560-2569 | 2020 |
| Brown TS, Challagundla L, Baugh EH, Omar SV, Mustaev A, Auld SC, Shah NS, Kreiswirth BN, Brust JCM, Nelson KN, Narechania A, Kurepina N, Mlisana K, Bonneau R, Eldholm V, Ismail N, Kolokotronis SO, Robinson DA, Gandhi NR, Mathema B, Pre-detection history of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Nov 12;116(46):23284-23291 | 2019 |
| Challagundla L, Luo X, Tickler IA, Didelot X, Coleman DC, Shore AC, Coombs GW, Sordelli DO, Brown EL, Skov R, Larsen AR, Reyes J, Robledo IE, Vazquez GJ, Rivera R, Fey PD, Stevenson K, Wang SH, Kreiswirth BN, Mediavilla JR, Arias CA, Planet PJ, Nolan RL, Tenover FC, Goering RV, Robinson DA, Range Expansion and the Origin of USA300 North American Epidemic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. mBio, 2018 Jan 2;9(1) | 2018 |
| Mahajan GJ, Vallender EJ, Garrett MR, Challagundla L, Overholser JC, Jurjus G, Dieter L, Syed M, Romero DG, Benghuzzi H, Stockmeier CA, Altered neuro-inflammatory gene expression in hippocampus in major depressive disorder. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry, 2018 Mar 2;82:177-186 | 2018 |
| Chung WC, Zhang S, Challagundla L, Zhou Y, Xu K, Lunatic Fringe and p53 Cooperatively Suppress Mesenchymal Stem-Like Breast Cancer. Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.), 2017 Nov;19(11):885-895 | 2017 |
| Rajkowska G, Mahajan G, Legutko B, Challagundla L, Griswold M, Albert PR, Daigle M, Miguel-Hidalgo JJ, Austin MC, Blakely RD, Steffens DC, Stockmeier CA, Length of axons expressing the serotonin transporter in orbitofrontal cortex is lower with age in depression. Neuroscience, 2017 Sep 17;359:30-39 | 2017 |
| Wheeler GL, Dorman HE, Buchanan A, Challagundla L, Wallace LE, A review of the prevalence, utility, and caveats of using chloroplast simple sequence repeats for studies of plant biology. Applications in plant sciences, 2014 Dec;2(12) | 2014 |
| Challagundla L, Reyes J, Rafiqullah I, Sordelli DO, Echaniz-Aviles G, Velazquez-Meza ME, Castillo-Ramírez S, Fittipaldi N, Feldgarden M, Chapman SB, Calderwood MS, Carvajal LP, Rincon S, Hanson B, Planet PJ, Arias CA, Diaz L, Robinson DA, Phylogenomic Classification and the Evolution of Clonal Complex 5 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Western Hemisphere. Frontiers in microbiology, 2018;9:1901 | |