Nikhil Patel

Nikhil Patel

Nikhil Patel

Biography

Education: B.S., Michigan State University - Neuroscience
Year in Program: M1
Thesis Mentor: TBD

 

Awards:

Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society
2021 – Graduated with Honors, Lyman Briggs Michigan State University
2017-2021 – Dean’s List, Michigan State University
2019 - Lyman Briggs MSUFCU Best in Class Award at 13th Lyman Briggs Annual Research Symposium

Conferences Attended:

Society for Neuroscience, 2023
Wayne State Pharmacology Colloquium, 2023
Midwest Pharmacology Colloquium, 2023
Midwest Drosophila Conference, 2023
 

 

 

Personal Interests

 Outside of medicine, I enjoy being out in nature, practicing yoga, studying Vedantic philosophy, and spending time in meditation.

Research Interests

Broadly stated, my research interests converge at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, with a particular interest in neuroimaging, neurodegeneration, and addiction

Publications

  1. Blount, J. R., Patel, N. C., Libohova, K., Harris, A. L., Tsou, W.-L., Sujkowski, A., & Todi, S. V. (2023). Lysine 117 on ataxin-3 modulates toxicity in drosophila models of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 454, 120828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2023.120828
  2. Nuga, O., Richardson, K., Patel, N., Wang, X., Pagala, V., Stephan, A., Peng, J., Demontis, F., & Todi, S. V. (2024). Linear ubiquitin chains remodel the proteome and influence the levels of hundreds of regulators in drosophila. G3, Accepted August 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.09.593206
  3. Patel, N., Alam, N., Libohova, K., Dulay, R., Todi, S. V., & Sujkowski, A. (2023). Phenotypic defects from the expression of wild-type and pathogenic TATA-binding proteins in new drosophila models of spinocerebellar ataxia type 17. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 13(10). https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad180
  4. Wei, J., Lambert, T. Y., Valada, A., Patel, N., Walker, K., Lenders, J., Schmidt, C. J., Iskhakova, M., Alazizi, A., Mair-Meijers, H., Mash, D. C., Luca, F., Pique-Regi, R., Bannon, M. J., & Akbarian, S. (2023). Single nucleus transcriptomics of ventral midbrain identifies glial activation associated with chronic opioid use disorder. Nature Communications, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41455-8

 

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