Dr Neha Agrawal | The University of Edinburgh

Lecturer in Molecular Genetics

Institute of Cell Biology
School of Biological Sciences

Email: Neha.Agrawal@ed.ac.uk
Web: https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/groups/agrawal
@_neha_agrawal

Street: Roger Land Building
Kings Buildings
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH9 3FF

Biography

Background

Neha did her PhD in Professor Gaiti Hasan’s lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, India where she studied the role of calcium signaling in regulating behavior. She started her postdoctoral research in Professor Pierre Leopold’s lab at the Institute of Biology Valrose, France where she examined the role of inter-organ communication in the nutritional regulation of growth. She then moved to Professor Andrea Brand’s lab at the University of Cambridge where she explored the genetic basis of obesity, in collaboration with Professor Sadaf Farooqi’s lab. Neha is also a Cambridge Borysiewicz Fellow and was a Bye-Fellow with Murray Edwards College.

Neha joined the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in Molecular Genetics and is investigating the systems physiology of metabolic disorders using the model system Drosophila melanogaster.

Teaching & PhD supervision

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

Devika Radhakrishnan

Luna Walravens

Payel Biswas

Past PhD students supervised

Rebecca McBride (MScR) - Graduated with Merit (2023)

Publications

Predicting novel candidate human obesity genes and their site of action by systematic functional screening in Drosophila (22 pages) 8 Nov 2021 In: PLoS Biology, vol. 19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001255
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Drosophila insulin release is triggered by adipose stunted ligand to brain methuselah receptor (4 pages) 30 Sep 2016 In: Science, vol. 353, pp. 1553-1556
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf8430
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
The drosophila TNF Eiger is an adipokine that acts on insulin-producing cells to mediate nutrient response (10 pages) 12 Apr 2016 In: Cell Metabolism, vol. 23, pp. 675-684
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2016.03.003
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Developmental biology: Hedgehog turns Into a metabolic hormone 2 Feb 2015 In: Current Biology, vol. 25, pp. R117-R119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.021
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Short survey (Published)
Drosophila InsP3R mutants and their effects on cellular and systemic physiology 19 Oct 2011 In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Membrane Transport and Signaling, vol. 1, pp. 70-77
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published)
Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor and dSTIM function in Drosophila insulin-producing neurons regulates systemic intracellular calcium homeostasis and flight (13 pages) 27 Jan 2010 In: Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 30, pp. 1301-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3668-09.2010
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Inositol 1,4,5- trisphosphate receptor function in Drosophila insulin producing cells 14 Aug 2009 In: PLoS ONE, vol. 4, pp. e6652
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006652
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Homeostasis of glutamate neurotransmission is altered in Drosophila Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor mutants (11 pages) Sep 2007 In: Invertebrate Neuroscience, vol. 7, pp. 137-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10158-007-0048-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Compensation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor function by altering sarco-endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase activity in the Drosophila flight circuit (11 pages) 9 Aug 2006 In: Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 26, pp. 8278-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1231-06.2006
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)

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This article was published on 10 May, 2024