Karen Christopher

Karen Christopher finished her doctoral program exploring the effects of early-life stress using behavioral and molecular biology techniques under the guidance of Dr. K. Emmanuvel Rajan. She joined the Chudasama lab in November 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow. She is interested in working on the developmental neuroanatomy and cognitive functions of septo-hippocampal pathway.

Peer Reviewed Papers

Karen C., Shyu DJH., Rajan KE. (2021) Lactobacillus paracasei supplementation prevents early-life stress induced anxiety and depressive-like behavior in maternal separation model - possible involvement of microbiota-gut-brain axis in differential regulation of microRNA124a/132 and glutamate receptors . Front Neurosci. 15:719933.

Vinay P., Karen C., Balamurugan K., Rajan K.E. (2021) Cronobacter sakazakii infection in early postnatal rats impaired contextual-associated learning: a putative role of C5a-mediated NF- κβ and ASK1 pathways . J Mol Neurosci. 71:28-41.

Karen C., Rajan K.E. (2019) Social behaviour and epigenetic status in adolescent and adult rats: the contribution of early-life stressful social experience . Cell Mol Neurobiol. 39(3):371-385.

Rajan K.E., Soundarya S., Karen C., Shanmugapriya V., Radhakrishnan K. (2019) Presence of mother reduces early-life social stress: Linking the alteration in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and serotonergic system . Dev Neurosci. 41(3):212-222.

Book Chapter

Rajan K.E., Karen C. (2019) Neonatal bacterial infection: insights into pathogenic strategy and onset of meningitis and sepsis. In: Pocket Guide to Bacterial Infections, Balamurugan K (Ed.) Imprint: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA. eBook ISBN – 9781315166377.

Presentations

Karen C., Rajan K.E. (2018) Social behaviour and epigenetic status in adolescent and adult rats: The contribution of early-life stressful social experience. International EMBO Workshop on From Epigenome towards Epitranscriptome in Cell Fate Choice, Capri, Italy.

Karen C., Rajan K.E. (2017) Presence of mother reduces early life stressful social experience induced stress by altering the function of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and serotonergic system. National Conference on Innovations in Modern Biology & 48th Aqua-Terr Annual Conference, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.