Additional Campus Affiliations
Head, Comparative Biosciences
Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Kambali, M., Wang, M., Nagarajan, R., Lyu, J., & Rudolph, U. (2026). Lactate restores PGC1α and BDNF expression rescuing cognitive impairments in a mouse model for schizophrenia. Behavioural Brain Research, 505, Article 116111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2026.116111
Fuhr, A., Roediger, R., Simelitidis, M., Gamper-Tsigaras, J., Templin, M., Kormann, M., Antkowiak, B., Rudolph, U., Köhler, D., Rosenberger, P., Ngamsri, K. C., & Konrad, F. M. (2025). Regulation of neutrophil migration in acute pulmonary inflammation by extraneuronal α1 gamma-aminobutyric acidA receptors. Cell Death and Disease, 16(1), Article 313. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-025-07488-1
Kambali, M., Li, Y., Unichenko, P., Feria Pliego, J. A., Yadav, R., Liu, J., McGuinness, P., Cobb, J. G., Wang, M., Nagarajan, R., Lyu, J., Vongsouthi, V., Jackson, C. J., Engin, E., Coyle, J. T., Shin, J., Hodgson, N. W., Hensch, T. K., Talkowski, M. E., ... Rudolph, U. (2025). An increased copy number of glycine decarboxylase (GLDC) associated with psychosis reduces extracellular glycine and impairs NMDA receptor function. Molecular Psychiatry, 30(3), 927-942. Article 6388. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-024-02711-5
Nagarajan, R., Zhang, H., Lyu, J., Kambali, M., Wang, M., & Rudolph, U. (2025). Intranasal Insulin Mitigates Memory Impairment and Neuroinflammation in a Mouse Model of Hippocampal Aging. Pharmacology Research and Perspectives, 13(6), Article e70186. https://doi.org/10.1002/prp2.70186
Nagarajan, R., Lyu, J., Kambali, M., Wang, M., Pearce, R. A., & Rudolph, U. (2025). Noncanonical sustained actions of propofol reverse surgery-induced microglial activation and cognitive impairment in aged mice. PNAS Nexus, 4(7), Article pgaf213. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf213