Epernicus: Amit Agarwal, Ph.D.

Amit Agarwal, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

Neuroscience

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD)
Advisor:
Dwight E Bergles
Degrees:

Ph.D., Neuroscience, Genetics, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine (Gottingen, Germany)

B. Tech., Biotechnology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (Delhi, India)
Past Advisors:

Klaus Armin-Nave (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
To understand the role of glial cells in cognition, learning and memory

Communities:

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Toll-like receptor stimulation enhances phagocytosis and intracellular killing of nonencapsulated and encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae by murine microglia.
Ribes S, Ebert S, Regen T, Agarwal A, Tauber SC, Czesnik D, Spreer A, Bunkowski S, Eiffert H, Hanisch UK, Hammerschmidt S, Nau R

Infection and immunity. 2010 Feb;78(2):865-71
Neuregulin-1/ErbB signaling serves distinct functions in myelination of the peripheral and central nervous system.
Brinkmann BG, Agarwal A, Sereda MW, Garratt AN, Müller T, Wende H, Stassart RM, Nawaz S, Humml C, Velanac V, Radyushkin K, Goebbels S, Fischer TM, Franklin RJ, Lai C, Ehrenreich H, Birchmeier C, Schwab MH, Nave KA

Neuron. 2008 Aug 28;59(4):581-95

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