Department of Biotechnology | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Arumugam Rajavelu

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

M.Sc., University of Madras, Chennai

Block 1, BT 202

044 2257 4144

arumugam.rajavelu[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

Lab: Block 1, 213

  • Epigenetics of Host-Pathogen Interactions.
  • Epigenetic players in the development of Severe malaria.
  • Antigenic variation of malaria parasite.
  • Immune mechanisms of severe malaria

  1. Vini, R., Lekshmi, A., Ravindran, S., Thulaseedharan, J. V., Sujathan, K., Rajavelu, A., & Sreeja, S (2023). "27-Hydroxycholesterol represses G9a expression via oestrogen receptor alpha in breast cancer", Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 27(18), pp. 2744–2755, DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.17882.
  2. Karthika, C. L., Venugopal, V., Sreelakshmi, B. J., Krithika, S., Thomas, J. M., Abraham, M., Kartha, C. C., Rajavelu, A., & Sumi, S (2023). "Oscillatory shear stress modulates Notch-mediated endothelial mesenchymal plasticity in cerebral arteriovenous malformations", Cellular & molecular biology letters, 28(1), pp. 22, DOI: 10.1186/s11658-023-00436-x.
  3. Kunert, S., Emperle, M., Adam, S., Bräcker, J., Brockmeyer, J., Rajavelu, A., & Jeltsch, A (2023). "The R736H cancer mutation in DNMT3A modulates the properties of the FF-subunit interface", Biochimie, 208, pp. 66–74, DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2022.12.005.
  4. Thomas, J. M., Sasankan, D., Abraham, M., Surendran, S., Kartha, C. C., & Rajavelu, A (2022). "DNA methylation signatures on vascular differentiation genes are aberrant in vessels of human cerebral arteriovenous malformation nidus", Clinical epigenetics, 14(1), pp. 127, DOI: 10.1186/s13148-022-01346-z.
  5. Sethumadhavan, D. V., Tiburcio, M., Kanyal, A., Jabeena, C. A., Govindaraju, G., Karmodiya, K., & Rajavelu, A (2022). "Chromodomain Protein Interacts with H3K9me3 and Controls RBC Rosette Formation by Regulating the Expression of a Subset of RIFINs in the Malaria Parasite", Journal of molecular biology, 434(12), pp. 167601, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167601.