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, Kshitiz Paudel, Radha Yadav, Yun Mao, Sonika Patial, and Yogesh Saini. Postnatal ozone exposure disrupts alveolar development, exaggerates mucoinflammatory responses, and suppresses bacterial clearance in developing Scnn1b-Tg+ mice lungs. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Immunology (June, 2021).
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.
Awards and Accomplishments:
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!
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