Isha Jain, PhD

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Biophysics
[email protected]
Primary Thematic Area: 
Human Genetics
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Research Summary: 
We study how organisms interact with the environment -- more specifically, what happens when there are variations in oxygen levels in the atmosphere or vitamin/cofactor levels in the diet.
Mentorship Development: 

11/2020 - Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab

Websites

Publications: 

Gut bacterial lactate stimulates lung epithelial mitochondria and exacerbates acute lung injury.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Upadhyay V, Ortega EF, Ramirez Hernandez LA, Alexander M, Kaur G, Trepka K, Rock RR, Shima RT, Cheshire WC, Alipanah-Lechner N, Calfee CS, Matthay MA, Lee JV, Goga A, Jain IH, Turnbaugh PJ

HypoxyStat, a small-molecule form of hypoxia therapy that increases oxygen-hemoglobin affinity.

Cell

Blume SY, Garg A, Martí-Mateos Y, Midha AD, Chew BTL, Lin B, Yu C, Dick R, Lee PS, Situ E, Sarwaikar R, Green E, Ramanan V, Grotenbreg G, Hoek M, Sinz C, Jain IH

The single-molecule accessibility landscape of newly replicated mammalian chromatin.

Cell

Ostrowski MS, Yang MG, McNally CP, Abdulhay NJ, Wang S, Renduchintala K, Irkliyenko I, Biran A, Chew BTL, Midha AD, Wong EV, Sandoval J, Jain IH, Groth A, Nora EP, Goodarzi H, Ramani V

In vivo protein turnover rates in varying oxygen tensions nominate MYBBP1A as a mediator of the hyperoxia response.

Science advances

Chen X, Haribowo AG, Baik AH, Fossati A, Stevenson E, Chen YR, Reyes NS, Peng T, Matthay MA, Traglia M, Pico AR, Jarosz DF, Buchwalter A, Ghaemmaghami S, Swaney DL, Jain IH

Oxygen toxicity causes cyclic damage by destabilizing specific Fe-S cluster-containing protein complexes.

Molecular cell

Baik AH, Haribowo AG, Chen X, Queliconi BB, Barrios AM, Garg A, Maishan M, Campos AR, Matthay MA, Jain IH