Diwakar Santhakumar

Diwakar-Santhakumar-lrgDiwakar Santhakumar

Location:

IIIR, Ashworth Lab, University of Edinburgh

Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

 

email: dskumar@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

 

2011- present PhD, University of Edinburgh. Manipulating cellular miRNAs as a potential anti-viral therapy for Influenza and Cytomegalovirus infection.

2011- present Research Associate (Part time). Buck Lab, IIIR, University of Edinburgh.

2007 -2011    Research Associate/Lab Manager -Division of Pathway Medicine/ IIIR, Buck lab, University of Edinburgh.

2006-2007    MSc (Genomics and Pathway biology), Division of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

2002-2006- B.Tech (Industrial Biotechnology), Anna University, Chennai, India.

 

PUBLICATIONS

  1.  Libri, V., Helwak, A., Miesen, P., Santhakumar, D., Borger, J.G., Kudla, G., Grey, F., Tollervey, D., Buck, A.H., Murine cytomegalovirus encodes a miR-27 inhibitor disguised as a target. 2011 PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1114204109.
  2. Santhakumar, D., Forster, T., Laqtom, N., Fragkoudis, F., Dickinson, P., Abreu-Goodger, C., Manakov, SA., Roy Choudhury, N., Griffiths, SJ., Vermeulen, A., Enright, AJ., Dutia, B., Kohl, A., Ghazal, P., Buck, AH. Combined agonist-antagonist genome-wide functional screening identifies broadly active antiviral microRNAs.  2010 PNAS 107, 13830-13835.
  3. Buck, A.H., Perot, J., Chisholm, M.A., Kumar, D.S., Tuddenham, L., Cognat, V., Marcinowski, L., Dolken, L., and Pfeffer, S. 2010 Post-transcriptional regulation of miR-27 in murine cytomegalovirus infection. RNA 16(2): 307-315.
  4. Buck, A.H., Santoyo-Lopez, J., Robertson, K.A., Kumar, D.S., Reczko, M., and Ghazal, P. 2007. Discrete clusters of virus-encoded micrornas are associated with complementary strands of the genome and the 7.2-kilobase stable intron in murine cytomegalovirus. J Virol 81(24): 13761-13770.