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Vijendra Sharma
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Research
Latest papers
Early life high-fat diet exposure modulates adult metabolic phenotypes in Drosophila.
iScience · 2026
Experimental evolution-induced transcriptome and phenotype responses of Drosophila melanogaster to novel thermal environments.
The Journal of experimental biology · 2025
The integrated stress response in the brain: cell type-specific functions in health and neurological disorders.
Trends in neurosciences · 2025
Latest funding
- $46,000
Identification of cell-type-specific mRNA translational control mechanisms in synaptic plasticity and memory formation.
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $12,500
Identification of cell-type-specific mRNA translational control mechanisms in synaptic plasticity and memory formation.
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Early life high-fat diet exposure modulates adult metabolic phenotypes in Drosophila.
Mishra P, Yadav G, Mitra S, Gupta R, Sahu RK, Koboji R, Dubey KK, Nanda RK, Sharma V, Michalak P, Aggarwal DD
Experimental evolution-induced transcriptome and phenotype responses of Drosophila melanogaster to novel thermal environments.
Dayal Aggarwal D, Mishra P, Patel Y, Singh M, Sharma V, Korol AB, Michalak P
The integrated stress response in the brain: cell type-specific functions in health and neurological disorders.
Ho-Tieng D, Sharma V, Sonenberg N, Gkogkas CG, Khoutorsky A
Decoding the connection between lncRNA and obesity: Perspective from humans and Drosophila.
Dayal Aggarwal D, Mishra P, Yadav G, Mitra S, Patel Y, Singh M, Sahu RK, Sharma V
The ISR downstream target ATF4 represses long-term memory in a cell type-specific manner.
Mahmood N, Choi JH, Wu PY, Dooling SW, Watkins TA, Huang Z, Lipman J, Zhao H, Yang A, Silversmith J, Inglebert Y, Koumenis C, Sharma V, Lacaille JC, Sossin WS, Khoutorsky A, McKinney RA, Costa-Mattioli M, Sonenberg N
mRNA translation in astrocytes controls hippocampal long-term synaptic plasticity and memory.
Sharma V, Oliveira MM, Sood R, Khlaifia A, Lou D, Hooshmandi M, Hung TY, Mahmood N, Reeves M, Ho-Tieng D, Cohen N, Cheng PC, Rahim MMA, Prager-Khoutorsky M, Kaufman RJ, Rosenblum K, Lacaille JC, Khoutorsky A, Klann E, Sonenberg N
Specific quinone reductase 2 inhibitors reduce metabolic burden and reverse Alzheimer's disease phenotype in mice.
Gould NL, Scherer GR, Carvalho S, Shurrush K, Kayyal H, Edry E, Elkobi A, David O, Foqara M, Thakar D, Pavesi T, Sharma V, Walker M, Maitland M, Dym O, Albeck S, Peleg Y, Germain N, Babaev I, Sharir H, Lalzar M, Shklyar B, Hazut N, Khamaisy M, Lévesque M, Lajoie G, Avoli M, Amitai G, Lefker B, Subramanyam C, Shilton B, Barr H, Rosenblum K
Identification of cell-type-specific mRNA translational control mechanisms in synaptic plasticity and memory formation.
Principal investigators: Sharma, Vijendra
Keywords: synaptic plasticity; mrna translation; proteostasis; metabotropic glutamate receptors; eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 alpha; excitatory and inhibitory neurons; learning and memory; integrated stress response (isr) pathway; hippocampus; ribotag
Identification of cell-type-specific mRNA translational control mechanisms in synaptic plasticity and memory formation.
Principal investigators: Sharma, Vijendra
Keywords: synaptic plasticity; mrna translation; proteostasis; metabotropic glutamate receptors; eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 alpha; excitatory and inhibitory neurons; learning and memory; integrated stress response (isr) pathway; hippocampus; ribotag
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Nahum Sonenberg and Arkady Khoutorsky: 39 shared papers
- Masha Prager-Khoutorsky and Arkady Khoutorsky: 15 shared papers
- Nahum Sonenberg and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky: 8 shared papers
- Nahum Sonenberg and Vijendra Sharma: 3 shared papers
- Arkady Khoutorsky and Vijendra Sharma: 3 shared papers
- Nahum Sonenberg and Massimo Avoli: 2 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Arkady Khoutorsky: 2 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky: 1 shared paper
- Massimo Avoli and Gilles Lajoie: 1 shared paper
- Massimo Avoli and Vijendra Sharma: 1 shared paper
- Masha Prager-Khoutorsky and Vijendra Sharma: 1 shared paper
- Gilles Lajoie and Vijendra Sharma: 1 shared paper
- Biochemistry
- Department of Biomedical Sciences
- Anesthesia
- Physiology
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
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