Navjot Kaur, PhD, MS
Associate Research Scientist in NeuroscienceCards
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Research
Publications
2026
Adaptive evolution of gene regulatory networks in mammalian neocortex
Li Z, Kaur N, Santpere G, Muchnik S, Sindhu S, Qi C, Shibata M, Clément O, Klarić T, de Martin X, Luria V, Cho H, Li M, Shibata A, Choi S, Kim H, Tebbenkamp A, Ma S, Han W, Kim S, Pochareddy S, Duy P, Xing X, Bao Y, Xu X, Gladwyn-Ng I, Cullen H, Paolino A, Fenlon L, Kozulin P, Suárez R, Risgaard R, Gulden F, Karger A, Suzuki I, Hirata T, Gobeske K, Richards L, Sousa A, Heng J, Sestan N. Adaptive evolution of gene regulatory networks in mammalian neocortex. Nature 2026, 653: 156-166. PMID: 41851468, PMCID: PMC13149332, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10226-y.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2025
Specification of claustro-amygdalar and palaeocortical neurons and circuits
Kaur N, Kovner R, Gulden F, Pletikos M, Andrijevic D, Zhu T, Silbereis J, Shibata M, Shibata A, Liu Y, Ma S, Salla N, de Martin X, Klarić T, Burke M, Franjic D, Cho H, Yuen M, Chatterjee I, Soric P, Esakkimuthu D, Moser M, Santpere G, Mineur Y, Pattabiraman K, Picciotto M, Huang H, Sestan N. Specification of claustro-amygdalar and palaeocortical neurons and circuits. Nature 2025, 638: 469-478. PMID: 39814878, PMCID: PMC11821539, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08361-5.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Cortical Projection Neuron Identity and Connectivity
Kaur N, Kovner R, Gobeske K, Sestan N. Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Cortical Projection Neuron Identity and Connectivity. 2023, 237-259. DOI: 10.1002/9781119860914.ch13.ChaptersEditorial: Oxytocin in brain health and disease: how can it exert such pleiotropic neuromodulatory effects?
Talpo F, Kaur N, Biella G. Editorial: Oxytocin in brain health and disease: how can it exert such pleiotropic neuromodulatory effects? Frontiers In Molecular Neuroscience 2023, 16: 1215351. PMID: 37266372, PMCID: PMC10230053, DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1215351.Commentaries, Editorials and Letters
2020
Multicenter Phase II Study of Cabazitaxel in Advanced Gastroesophageal Cancer: Association of HER2 Expression and M2-Like Tumor-Associated Macrophages with Patient Outcome
Shah MA, Enzinger P, Ko AH, Ocean AJ, Philip PA, Thakkar PV, Cleveland K, Lu Y, Kortmansky J, Christos PJ, Zhang C, Kaur N, Elmonshed D, Galletti G, Sarkar S, Bhinder B, Pittman ME, Plotnikova OM, Kotlov N, Frenkel F, Bagaev A, Elemento O, Betel D, Giannakakou P, Lenz HJ. Multicenter Phase II Study of Cabazitaxel in Advanced Gastroesophageal Cancer: Association of HER2 Expression and M2-Like Tumor-Associated Macrophages with Patient Outcome. Clinical Cancer Research 2020, 26: 4756-4766. PMID: 32641434, PMCID: PMC8209413, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-19-3920.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAdenocarcinomaAdultAgedAged, 80 and overEsophageal NeoplasmsEsophagogastric JunctionFemaleGene AmplificationGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedProgression-Free SurvivalReceptor, ErbB-2Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid TumorsStomach NeoplasmsTaxoidsTumor-Associated Macrophages
2018
Integrative functional genomic analysis of human brain development and neuropsychiatric risks
Li M, Santpere G, Imamura Kawasawa Y, Evgrafov OV, Gulden FO, Pochareddy S, Sunkin SM, Li Z, Shin Y, Zhu Y, Sousa AMM, Werling DM, Kitchen RR, Kang HJ, Pletikos M, Choi J, Muchnik S, Xu X, Wang D, Lorente-Galdos B, Liu S, Giusti-Rodríguez P, Won H, de Leeuw C, Pardiñas AF, Hu M, Jin F, Li Y, Owen M, O’Donovan M, Walters J, Posthuma D, Reimers M, Levitt P, Weinberger D, Hyde T, Kleinman J, Geschwind D, Hawrylycz M, Sanders S, Sullivan P, Gerstein M, Lein E, Knowles J, Sestan N, Willsey A, Oldre A, Szafer A, Camarena A, Cherskov A, Charney A, Abyzov A, Kozlenkov A, Safi A, Jones A, Ashley-Koch A, Ebbert A, Price A, Sekijima A, Kefi A, Bernard A, Amiri A, Sboner A, Clark A, Jaffe A, Tebbenkamp A, Sodt A, Guillozet-Bongaarts A, Nairn A, Carey A, Huttner A, Chervenak A, Szekely A, Shieh A, Harmanci A, Lipska B, Carlyle B, Gregor B, Kassim B, Sheppard B, Bichsel C, Hahn C, Lee C, Chen C, Kuan C, Dang C, Lau C, Cuhaciyan C, Armoskus C, Mason C, Liu C, Slaughterbeck C, Bennet C, Pinto D, Polioudakis D, Franjic D, Miller D, Bertagnolli D, Lewis D, Feng D, Sandman D, Clarke D, Williams D, DelValle D, Fitzgerald D, Shen E, Flatow E, Zharovsky E, Burke E, Olson E, Fulfs E, Mattei E, Hadjimichael E, Deelman E, Navarro F, Wu F, Lee F, Cheng F, Goes F, Vaccarino F, Liu F, Hoffman G, Gürsoy G, Gee G, Mehta G, Coppola G, Giase G, Sedmak G, Johnson G, Wray G, Crawford G, Gu G, van Bakel H, Witt H, Yoon H, Pratt H, Zhao H, Glass I, Huey J, Arnold J, Noonan J, Bendl J, Jochim J, Goldy J, Herstein J, Wiseman J, Miller J, Mariani J, Stoll J, Moore J, Szatkiewicz J, Leng J, Zhang J, Parente J, Rozowsky J, Fullard J, Hohmann J, Morris J, Phillips J, Warrell J, Shin J, An J, Belmont J, Nyhus J, Pendergraft J, Bryois J, Roll K, Grennan K, Aiona K, White K, Aldinger K, Smith K, Girdhar K, Brouner K, Mangravite L, Brown L, Collado-Torres L, Cheng L, Gourley L, Song L, Ubieta L, Habegger L, Ng L, Hauberg M, Onorati M, Webster M, Kundakovic M, Skarica M, Reimers M, Johnson M, Chen M, Garrett M, Sarreal M, Reding M, Gu M, Peters M, Fisher M, Gandal M, Purcaro M, Smith M, Brown M, Shibata M, Brown M, Xu M, Yang M, Ray M, Shapovalova N, Francoeur N, Sjoquist N, Mastan N, Kaur N, Parikshak N, Mosqueda N, Ngo N, Dee N, Ivanov N, Devillers O, Roussos P, Parker P, Manser P, Wohnoutka P, Farnham P, Zandi P, Emani P, Dalley R, Mayani R, Tao R, Gittin R, Straub R, Lifton R, Jacobov R, Howard R, Park R, Dai R, Abramowicz S, Akbarian S, Schreiner S, Ma S, Parry S, Shapouri S, Weissman S, Caldejon S, Mane S, Ding S, Scuderi S, Dracheva S, Butler S, Lisgo S, Rhie S, Lindsay S, Datta S, Souaiaia T, Gomez T, Naluai-Cecchini T, Beach T, Goodman T, Gao T, Dolbeare T, Fliss T, Reddy T, Chen T, Hyde T, Brunetti T, Lemon T, Desta T, Borrman T, Haroutunian V, Spitsyna V, Swarup V, Shi X, Jiang Y, Xia Y, Chen Y, Jiang Y, Wang Y, Chae Y, Yang Y, Kim Y, Riley Z, Krsnik Z, Deng Z, Weng Z, Lin Z, Li Z. Integrative functional genomic analysis of human brain development and neuropsychiatric risks. Science 2018, 362: eaat7615. PMID: 30545854, PMCID: PMC6413317, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7615.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNoncoding RNA Ginir functions as an oncogene by associating with centrosomal proteins
Panda S, Setia M, Kaur N, Shepal V, Arora V, Singh D, Mondal A, Teli A, Tathode M, Gajula R, Padhy L, Shiras A. Noncoding RNA Ginir functions as an oncogene by associating with centrosomal proteins. PLOS Biology 2018, 16: e2004204. PMID: 30296263, PMCID: PMC6193740, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004204.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2013
MiR-145 functions as a tumor-suppressive RNA by targeting Sox9 and adducin 3 in human glioma cells
Rani S, Rathod S, Karthik S, Kaur N, Muzumdar D, Shiras A. MiR-145 functions as a tumor-suppressive RNA by targeting Sox9 and adducin 3 in human glioma cells. Neuro-Oncology 2013, 15: 1302-1316. PMID: 23814265, PMCID: PMC3779040, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/not090.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAnimalsApoptosisBlotting, WesternBrain NeoplasmsCalmodulin-Binding ProteinsCell AdhesionCell CycleCell MovementCell ProliferationGliomaHumansMiceMice, Inbred NODMice, SCIDMicroRNAsNeoplastic Stem CellsReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerSOX9 Transcription FactorSecretome analysis of Glioblastoma cell line - HNGC-2
Gupta M, Polisetty R, Ramamoorthy K, Tiwary S, Kaur N, Uppin M, Shiras A, Sirdeshmukh R. Secretome analysis of Glioblastoma cell line - HNGC-2. Molecular Omics 2013, 9: 1390-1400. PMID: 23483059, DOI: 10.1039/c3mb25383j.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWnt3a mediated activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling promotes tumor progression in glioblastoma
Kaur N, Chettiar S, Rathod S, Rath P, Muzumdar D, Shaikh M, Shiras A. Wnt3a mediated activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling promotes tumor progression in glioblastoma. Molecular And Cellular Neuroscience 2013, 54: 44-57. PMID: 23337036, DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2013.01.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAnimalsBrain NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCell MovementCell ProliferationCell Transformation, NeoplasticDrug Resistance, NeoplasmGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene SilencingGlioblastomaHumansMiceMice, Inbred NODMice, SCIDNeoplastic Stem CellsTranscription, GeneticWnt Signaling PathwayWnt1 ProteinWnt3A Protein