Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School Medical School
Department Neuroscience
Biography
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
- 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
- Gene-expression correlates of the oscillatory signatures supporting human episodic memory encoding.
- Berto S, Fontenot MR, Seger S, Ayhan F, Caglayan E, Kulkarni A, Douglas C, Tamminga CA, Lega BC, Konopka G, Nat Neurosci 2021 Apr 24 4 554-564
- FOXP1 negatively regulates intrinsic excitability in D2 striatal projection neurons by promoting inwardly rectifying and leak potassium currents.
- Khandelwal N, Cavalier S, Rybalchenko V, Kulkarni A, Anderson AG, Konopka G, Gibson JR, Mol Psychiatry 2021 Jan
- An essential role for MEF2C in the cortical response to loss of sleep in mice.
- Bjorness TE, Kulkarni A, Rybalchenko V, Suzuki A, Bridges C, Harrington AJ, Cowan CW, Takahashi JS, Konopka G, Greene RW, Elife 2020 Aug 9
- Single-Cell Analysis of Foxp1-Driven Mechanisms Essential for Striatal Development.
- Anderson AG, Kulkarni A, Harper M, Konopka G, Cell Rep 2020 Mar 30 9 3051-3066.e7
- Cortical Foxp2 Supports Behavioral Flexibility and Developmental Dopamine D1 Receptor Expression.
- Co M, Hickey SL, Kulkarni A, Harper M, Konopka G, Cereb. Cortex 2019 Nov
- Beyond bulk: a review of single cell transcriptomics methodologies and applications.
- Kulkarni A, Anderson AG, Merullo DP, Konopka G, Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 2019 Apr 58 129-136
- Foxp1 regulation of neonatal vocalizations via cortical development.
- Usui N, Araujo DJ, Kulkarni A, Co M, Ellegood J, Harper M, Toriumi K, Lerch JP, Konopka G Genes Dev. 2017 Nov