Deepika is now a postdoctotal fellow in the Kurrasch lab at the Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Canada.

cumming.ucalgary.ca/labs/developing-brains/deepika-dogra-phd

Education:

Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
PhD (Biology), 09/2012 – 08/2017
Investigated the role of TGF-β family ligands during cardiac development and regeneration in zebrafish.

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, IndiaM.Tech (Biotechnology),
07/2010-05/2011
Analyzed the effect of Camellia sinensis on glucose induced cardiac inflammation in rat cardiac cells.

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, IndiaB.Tech (Biotechnology),
07/2009-05/2010
Studied the reversal of norepinephrine-induced cardiac hypertrophy by curcumin in rat cardiac cells.

Research Interest:
I am interested in elucidating the effect of various environmental cues on vertebrate cardiovascular development and cardiac remodeling by using zebrafish as a model organism. 

Publications:

• Uribe V Ramadas R Dogra D . Rasouli SJ Gunawan F Nakajima H Chiba A Reischauer S Mochizuki N Stainier DYR (2018) In vivo analysis of cardiomyocyte proliferation during ventricular trabeculation. Development 145(14). doi: 10.1242/dev.164194.

• Dogra D, Ahuja S, Kim HT, Rasouli SJ, Stainier DYR, Reischauer S (2017) Opposite effects of Activin type 2 receptor ligands on cardiomyocyte proliferation during development and repair. Nature Communications.1;8(1):1902.doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01950-1.
• Ahuja S, Dogra D, Stainier DYR, Reischauer S (2016) Id4 functions downstream of Bmp signaling to restrict TCF function in endocardial cells during atrioventricular valve development.  Developmental Biology.1;412(1):71-82.doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.02.003.
• Ahuja S*, Kohli S*, Krishnan S*, Dogra D*, Sharma D, Rani V (2011) Curcumin: a potential therapeutic polyphenol, prevents noradrenaline-induced hypertrophy in rat cardiac myocytes.  Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. 63(12):1604-12. doi:10.1111/j.2042-7158.2011.01363.x
• Shrey K, Suchit A, Deepika D, Shruti K, Vibha R (2011)  Air pollutants: the key stages in the pathway towards the development of cardiovascular disorders.  Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology.31(1):1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.etap.2010.09.002.