Hamsanandini (Hamsi) Radhakrishnan, B.S.,
PhD Candidate
hum-see, she/her
B.S., Biotechnology, 2017, BMS College of Engineering, India
Email: hradhakr@uci.edu
Personal website: https://sites.uci.edu/hamsci/
Hamsi graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology Engineering in 2017 from BMS College of Engineering, India. She then immediately began her graduate program in Mathematical, Computational, and Systems Biology at the University of California, Irvine. She uses advanced diffusion imaging and other MRI modalities to understand how structural properties of the brain differ with age, disease and cognitive differences, with a focus on gray matter microstructure. She is trying to build a model that can predict specific neurobiological properties, like cell densities, from these diffusion metrics alone. She also serves as a co-chair for the K-12 Ambassador Committee in the Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, where they host events to get children excited about science!
EDUCATION
2017- current Graduate Student, Mathematical and Computational Systems Biology, University of California, Irvine
2013-2017 B.A., Biotechnology Engineering, BMS Collect of Engineering, India
PUBLICATIONS
Radhakrishnan, H., Ubele, M., Krumholz, S., Boaz, K., Mefford, J., Denhart, E., Meacham, B., Smiley, J., Puskás, L., Powell, D., Norris, C., Stark, C.E.L., Head, E. (2021) Tacrolimus protects against age-associated microstructural changes in the beagle brain. Journal of Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0361-21.2021.
Radhakrishnan, H., Stark SM, & Stark C.E.L (2020) Microstructural alterations in hippocampal subfields mediate age-related memory decline in humans. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2020.00094.
Yallappa, S., DR, D., Sammeta, Y., Radhakrishnan, H., Chandraprasad, M., Kumar, A., Hegde, G. (2017). Natural Biowaste of Groundnut shell derived nano carbons: Synthesis, Characterization and its in vitro antibacterial activity. Nano-structures & Nano-objects 12, 84-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoso.2017.09.009
AWARDS
Third Place, UCI Grad Slam, 2021.
Trainee Professional Development Award, Society for Neuroscience 2021
2nd Place for Poster Presentation at the National Symposium for Next Generation Sequencing held at M S Rammaiah Institute of Technology for ‘Unveiling the role of ncRNAs in Autism Spectrum Disorders.’