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Dr Divya Ramnath

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Dr. Divya Ramnath is a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Matt Sweet's lab at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), The University of Queensland. As an early career post-doctoral researcher, she led a new project, characterising inflammation-associated determinants of chronic liver disease at the IMB Centre for Inflammation and Disease Research (CIDR).

Researcher biography

Dr. Divya Ramnath is a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Matt Sweet's lab at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), The University of Queensland. As an early career post-doctoral researcher, she led a new project, characterising inflammation-associated determinants of chronic liver disease at the IMB Centre for Inflammation and Disease Research (CIDR).

Publications

Journal Articles (10)
Conference Paper (1)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Ramnath, Divya, Das Gupta, Kaustav, Wang, Yizhuo, Abrol, Rishika, Curson, James E. B., Lim, Junxian, Reid, Robert C., Mansell, Ashley, Blumenthal, Antje, Karunakaran, Denuja, Fairlie, David P. and Sweet, Matthew J. (2021). The histone deacetylase Hdac7 supports LPS‐inducible glycolysis and Il‐1β production in murine macrophages via distinct mechanisms. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. doi: 10.1002/jlb.2mr1021-260r
Kapetanovic, Ronan, Afroz, Syeda Farhana, Ramnath, Divya, Lawrence, Grace M.E.P., Okada, Takashi, Curson, James E.B., Bruin, Jost, Fairlie, David P., Schroder, Kate, St John, Justin C., Blumenthal, Antje and Sweet, Matthew J. (2020). Lipopolysaccharide promotes Drp1‐dependent mitochondrial fission and associated inflammatory responses in macrophages. Immunology and Cell Biology, 98 (7) imcb.12363, 528-539. doi: 10.1111/imcb.12363
Das Gupta, Kaustav, Shakespear, Melanie R., Curson, James E.B., Murthy, Ambika M.V., Iyer, Abishek, Hodson, Mark P., Ramnath, Divya, Tillu, Vikas A., von Pein, Jessica B., Reid, Robert C., Tunny, Kathryn, Hohenhaus, Daniel M., Moradi, Shayli Varasteh, Kelly, Gregory M., Kobayashi, Takumi, Gunter, Jennifer H., Stevenson, Alexander J., Xu, Weijun, Luo, Lin, Jones, Alun, Johnston, Wayne A., Blumenthal, Antje, Alexandrov, Kirill, Collins, Brett M., Stow, Jennifer L., Fairlie, David P. and Sweet, Matthew J. (2020). Class IIa histone deacetylases drive toll-like receptor-inducible glycolysis and macrophage inflammatory responses via pyruvate kinase M2. Cell Reports, 30 (8), 2712-2728.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.007
Loh, Zhixuan, Fitzsimmons, Rebecca L., Reid, Robert C., Ramnath, Divya, Clouston, Andrew, Gupta, Praveer K., Irvine, Katharine M., Powell, Elizabeth E., Schroder, Kate, Stow, Jennifer L., Sweet, Matthew J., Fairlie, David P. and Iyer, Abishek (2019). Inhibitors of class I histone deacetylases attenuate thioacetamide-induced liver fibrosis in mice by suppressing hepatic Type 2 inflammation. British Journal of Pharmacology, 176 (19) bph.14768, 3775-3790. doi: 10.1111/bph.14768
Yang, Yoon Mee, Noureddin, Mazen, Liu, Cheng, Ohashi, Koichiro, Kim, So Yeon, Ramnath, Divya, Powell, Elizabeth E., Sweet, Matthew J., Roh, Yoon Seok, Hsin, I-Fang, Deng, Nan, Liu, Zhenqiu, Liang, Jiurong, Mena, Edward, Shouhed, Daniel, Schwabe, Robert F., Jiang, Dianhua, Lu, Shelly C., Noble, Paul W. and Seki, Ekihiro (2019). Hyaluronan synthase 2–mediated hyaluronan production mediates Notch1 activation and liver fibrosis. Science Translational Medicine, 11 (496) eaat9284, eaat9284. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aat9284
Chen, Kaiwen W., Monteleone, Mercedes, Boucher, Dave, Sollberger, Gabriel, Ramnath, Divya, Condon, Nicholas D., von Pein, Jessica B., Broz, Petr, Sweet, Matthew J. and Schroder, Kate (2018). Noncanonical inflammasome signaling elicits gasdermin D–dependent neutrophil extracellular traps. Science Immunology, 3 (26) eaar6676, eaar6676. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.aar6676
Ramnath, Divya, Irvine, Katharine M., Lukowski, Samuel W., Horsfall, Leigh U., Loh, Zhixuan, Clouston, Andrew D., Patel, Preya J., Fagan, Kevin J., Iyer, Abishek, Lampe, Guy, Stow, Jennifer L., Schroder, Kate, Fairlie, David P., Powell, Joseph E., Powell, Elizabeth E. and Sweet, Matthew J. (2018). Hepatic expression profiling identifies steatosis-independent and steatosis-driven advanced fibrosis genes. JCI Insight, 3 (14). doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.120274
Ramnath, Divya, Powell, Elizabeth E., Scholz, Glen M. and Sweet, Matthew J. (2016). The toll-like receptor 3 pathway in homeostasis, responses to injury and wound repair. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 61, 22-30. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2016.08.014
Ramnath, Divya, Tunny, Kathryn, Hohenhaus, Daniel M., Pitts, Claire M., Bergot, Anne-Sophie, Hogarth, P. Mark, Hamilton, John A., Kapetanovic, Ronan, Sturm, Richard A., Scholz, Glen M. and Sweet, Matthew J. (2015). TLR3 drives IRF6-dependent IL-23p19 expression and p19/EBI3 heterodimer formation in keratinocytes. Immunology and Cell Biology, 93 (9), 771-779. doi: 10.1038/icb.2015.77
Kwa, Mei Qi, Nguyen, Thao, Huynh, Jennifer, Ramnath, Divya, De Nardo, Dominic, Lam, Pei Yeng, Reynolds, Eric C., Hamilton, John A., Sweet, Matthew J. and Scholz, Glen M. (2014). Interferon regulatory factor 6 differentially regulates toll-like receptor 2-dependent chemokine gene expression in epithelial cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289 (28), 19758-19768. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.584540

Conference Paper

Ramnath, D., Irvine, K., Lukowski, S., Horsfall, L., Loh, K., Clouston, A., Patel, P., Iyer, A., Lampe, G., Stow, J., Schroder, K., Fairlie, D., Powell, J., Powell, E. and Sweet, M. (2018). RNA-sequencing analysis of biopsies from chronic liver disease patients identifies gene signatures associated with progressive liver disease. International Liver Congress (ILC), Paris, France, 11-15 April, 2018. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/S0168-8278(18)31040-7

Thesis

Ramnath, Divya (2014). Role of IRF6 in epithelial cell-mediated host defence and inflammation. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.483

Areas of research

IMB Centre for Inflammation and Disease Research