Ishita Choudhary

Ishita Choudhary (Graduate Student)

Ishita did her Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) from Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University (India).

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

Publications:

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:

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!