Epernicus: Ravi A Desai, B.S.

Ravi A Desai, B.S.

(Ph.D. in progress)

Position:
Graduate Student - Ph.D.

Bioengineering

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
Advisor:
Christopher S. Chen
Degrees:

Ph.D. (in progress), Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
Past Advisors:

David Odde (as Undergraduate Student)

Mark A. Knepper (as Visiting Student)
Research:
Other Experience:
2003 Bioengineering Summer Internship Program at NIH

Communities:

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Cell polarity triggered by cell-cell adhesion via E-cadherin.
Desai RA, Gao L, Raghavan S, Liu WF, Chen CS

Journal of cell science. 2009 Apr 1;122(Pt 7):905-11
Microfabricated post-array-detectors (mPADs): an approach to isolate mechanical forces.
Desai R, Yang M, Sniadecki N, Legant W, Chen C

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. 2007;(7):311
Heparin binding directs activation of T cells against adeno-associated virus serotype 2 capsid.
Vandenberghe LH, Wang L, Somanathan S, Zhi Y, Figueredo J, Calcedo R, Sanmiguel J, Desai RA, Chen CS, Johnston J, Grant RL, Gao G, Wilson JM

Nature medicine. 2006 Aug;12(8):967-71
Nanotechnology for cell-substrate interactions.
Sniadecki NJ, Desai RA, Ruiz SA, Chen CS

Annals of biomedical engineering. 2006 Jan;34(1):59-74
Non-muscle myosin II and myosin light chain kinase are downstream targets for vasopressin signaling in the renal collecting duct.
Chou CL, Christensen BM, Frische S, Vorum H, Desai RA, Hoffert JD, de Lanerolle P, Nielsen S, Knepper MA

The Journal of biological chemistry. 2004 Nov 19;279(47):49026-35
Micro-patterning of animal cells on PDMS substrates in the presence of serum without use of adhesion inhibitors.
De Silva MN, Desai R, Odde DJ

Biomedical microdevices. 2004 Sep;6(3):219-22

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