Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor School Medical School Department Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute | Neuroscience Graduate Programs Cell and Molecular Biology Biography Download Curriculum Vitae Education Graduate School University of Texas at Dallas (2011), Molecular & Cell Biology Graduate School University of Texas at Dallas (2015), Molecular & Cell Biology Undergraduate Amravati University (2016), Medical Technology Graduate School Nagpur University (2016), Biology Research Interest Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Disorders Transcriptomics and Genomics Publications Featured Publications Human CLOCK enhances neocortical function. Liu Y, Fontenot MR, Kulkarni A, Khandelwal N, Voth Park SHE, Criswell C, Harper M, Xu P, Gupta N, Gibson JR, Takahashi JS, Konopka G Nature Neuroscience 2025 Stimulation modulates cell assemblies linked with gene networks in the human temporal cortex ex vivo H. Moore, M. Dehnad, A. Freelin, B. Granger, S. Subramanian, A. Kulkarni, S. Berto, B. C. Lega, G. Konopka bioRxiv 2025 Sleep need driven oscillation of glutamate synaptic phenotype Kaspar E Vogt, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Richa Pandey, Mantre Dehnad, Genevieve Konopka, Robert W Greene eLife 2025 Resilience to Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Mitigates Calcium-Dependent Membrane Hyperexcitability Underlying Late Disease Onset in SCA6 Haoran Huang, Taylor L. Charron, Min Fu, Miranda Dunn, Deborah M. Jones, Praveen Kumar, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Genevieve Konopka, Vikram G. Shakkottai bioRxiv 2025 Pre- and Postsynaptic MEF2C Promotes Experience-Dependent, Input-Specific Development of Cortical Layer 4 to Layer 2/3 Excitatory Synapses and Regulates Activity-Dependent Expression of Synaptic Cell Adhesion Molecules Jennifer N. Putman, Sean D. Watson, Zhe Zhang, Nitin Khandelwal, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Jay R. Gibson and Kimberly M. Huber Journal of Neuroscience 2025 Compensation between FOXP transcription factors maintains proper striatal function Newaz I. Ahmed, Nitin Khandelwal, Ashley G. Anderson, Emily Oh, Rachael M. Vollmer, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Jay R. Gibson, Genevieve Konopka Cell Reports 2024 43 5 FOXP1 regulates the development of excitatory synaptic inputs onto striatal neurons and induces phenotypic reversal with reinstatement Nitin Khandelwal ,Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Newaz I. Ahmed, Matthew Harper, Genevieve Konopka and Jay R. Gibson Science Advances 2024 NPAS4 regulates the transcriptional response of the suprachiasmatic nucleus to light and circadian behavior. Xu P, Berto S, Kulkarni A, Jeong B, Joseph C, Cox KH, Greenberg ME, Kim TK, Konopka G, Takahashi JS, Neuron 2021 Aug Resolving cellular and molecular diversity along the hippocampal anterior-to-posterior axis in humans. Ayhan F, Kulkarni A, Berto S, Sivaprakasam K, Douglas C, Lega BC, Konopka G, Neuron 2021 May Expression of FoxP2 in the basal ganglia regulates vocal motor sequences in the adult songbird. Xiao L, Merullo DP, Koch TMI, Cao M, Co M, Kulkarni A, Konopka G, Roberts TF, Nat Commun 2021 05 12 1 2617 Results 1-10 of 24 1 2 3 Next Last
