Ishita Choudhary

Ishita Choudhary (Graduate Student)

Ishita did her Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) from Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University (India). She successfully defended her PhD dissertation in March, 2023.

Major focus: Her research focus is to explore the role of myeloid cells in muco-obstructive lung diseases.

Publications:

Thao Vo, Kshitiz Paudel, Ishita Choudhary, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Ozone exposure upregulates the expression of host susceptibility protein TMPRSS2 to SARS-CoV-2 (2022). Scientific Reports;2022 Jan 25;12(1):1357. 

Ishita Choudhary, Thao Vo, Kshitiz Paudel, Radha Yadav, Richa Gupta, Mehmet Kesimer,  Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Vesicular and extravesicular protein signatures from the airspaces of ozone-exposed mice reflect muco-inflammatory lung disease. Scientific Reports. 2021 Dec 1;11(1):23203.

Sonika Patial, Brandon W Lewis, Thao Vo, Ishita Choudhary, Kshitiz Paudel, Yun Mao, Dhruthi Singamsetty, Frank Brombacher, and Yogesh Saini. Myeloid IL-4Ra is an indispensable link in IL-33-ILCs-IL-13-IL4Ra axis of eosinophil recruitment in murine lungs. Sci Rep. 2021 Jul 29;11(1):15465.

Ishita Choudhary, Thao Vo, Chandra Bathula, Richa Lamichhane, Brandon Lewis, Jayme Looper, Samithamby Jeyaseelan, Yogesh Saini, and Sonika Patial. TTP overexpression in non-hematopoietic cells protects against acute lung injury in mice (2020). Front Immunol. 2020 Sep 2;11:2164.

Thao Vo, Kshitiz Paudel, Ishita Choudhary, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Ozone exposure upregulates the expression of host susceptibility protein TMPRSS2 to SARS-CoV-2 (2020). Preprint published on bioRxiv (11th November, 2020).

Ishita Choudhary, Thao Vo, Kshitiz Paudel, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Compartment-specific transcriptomics of ozone-exposed murine lungs reveals sex and cell type-associated perturbations relevant to mucoinflammatory lung diseases (2020). American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 2021 Jan 1;320(1):L99-L125. 

Brandon W Lewis, Ishita Choudhary, Kshitiz Paudel, Yun Mao, Rahul Sharma, Yong Wang, Jessy S Deshane, Richard C Boucher_, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Innate lymphoid system is a critical player in the manifestation of muco-inflammatory airway disease in mice (2020). The Journal of Immunology. 2020 Sep 15;205(6):1695-1708.

Brandon W Lewis, Thao Vo, Ishita Choudhary, Allison Kidder, Chandra Bathula, Camille Ehre, Nobuko Wakamatsu, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Ablation of IL-33 suppresses Th2 responses but is accompanied by sustained mucus obstruction in the Scnn1b transgenic mouse model (2020). The Journal of Immunology. 204(6): 1650-1660.

Awards and Accomplishments:

03/08/2023: Dr. Ishita Choudhary has received Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) Immuno-Safety Technical Committee (ITC) Professional Development Award. Congratulations!

03/06/2023: Ishita Choudhary successfully defensed her PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. (DVM) Dr. (PhD) Choudhary. As a consequence, Saini Lab has graduated its second PhD student.

03/04/2023: Ishita Choudhary has Women in Toxicology Vera W. Hudson and Elizabeth K. Weisburger Scholarship Fund Award. Congratulations!

03/01/2023: Ishita Choudhary has received prestigious 2023 Roger O McClellan award. Congratulations!

04/22/2022: Ishita Choudhary received the Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) Student “Travel Grant” award for the STP 41st Annual Symposium that is taking place in Austin, Texas (June 19–23, 2022). Congratulations!  

03/15/2022: Ishita’s first-authored manuscript received the “Paper of the Year Award” at the 2022 Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting in San Diego, March 27 – 31, 2022. This paper entitled “Postnatal ozone exposure disrupts alveolar development, exaggerates mucoinflammatory responses, and suppresses bacterial clearance in developing Scnn1b-Tg+ mice lungs” was published in The Journal of Immunology. 

02/23/2022: Ishita Choudhary received “Fourth Place” presentation awards on her presentation at the 2022 Phi Zeta Research Day. Congratulations!

01/12/2022: Ishita Choudhary received the best presentation award (Second Place) at the annual departmental retreat.

06/24/2021: Ishita Choudhary received “Young Investigator Award” at 2021 annual Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) meeting. Congratulations! 

06/04/2021: Ishita Choudhary is the recipient of “2021 Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) Environmental Toxicologic Pathology Special Interest Group (ETP-SIG) Student Research Award“. Congratulations! 

04/17/2021: Ishita Choudhary received “First Place” presentation awards on her presentation at the 8th Annual Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (April 15 – 17, 2021). Congratulations! 

03/15/2021: Ishita Choudhary presented her research at the 2021 Comparative Toxicology, Pathology, and Veterinary Specialty Section (CTPVSS)  meeting. 

02/26/2021: Ishita Choudhary is the recipient of the 2021 Comparative Toxicology, Pathology, and Veterinary Specialty Section (CTPVSS)  Trainee Award. She will  receive a plaque and monetary award to attend the meeting. Congratulations!

02/24/2021: Ishita Choudhary received “First Place” presentation awards on her presentation at the 2021 Phi Zeta Research Day. Day. Congratulations! 

02/24/2021: Ishita Choudhary received “Second Place” presentation awards on her presentation at the 2021 Phi Zeta Research Day. Congratulations! 

01/12/2021: Ishita Received Heidi Lott Award for her outstanding performance in the graduate studies. 

11/13/2020: Ishita presented a platform talk at the Annual South-central Chapter of SOT Meeting (13th November, 2020). She shared her recent findings from her project entitled “Effect of ozone on the progression of CF-like lung disease in mice“.

02/12/2020: Ishita Choudhary received “First Place” presentation awards on her presentation at the 2020 Phi Zeta Research Day. Congratulations!