Bhagirath Chaurasia, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism
Current Positions
- Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism
Education
- MSc, Molecular Biology, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden
- PhD, Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, University Clinic Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Graduate Program Affiliations
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Selected Publications
- Keshvari S, Ceddia RP, Rajbhandari P, Chaurasia B, Bond ST. Editorial: Adipose tissue in obesity and metabolic disease. Front Physiol 2022 Apr;13:898861. PMCID: PMC9061979
- Ying L, Talbot CL, Chandravanshi B, Ksiazek A, Sood A, Chowdhury KH, Maschek JA, Cox J, Babu AKS, Paz HA, Babu PVA, Meyerholz DK, Wankhade UD, Holland WL, Tai ES, Summers SA, Chaurasia B. Cordyceps inhibits ceramide biosynthesis and improves insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis. Sci Rep 2022 May;12(1):7273. PMCID: PMC9068713
- Jain R, Wade G, Ong I, Chaurasia B, Simcox J. Determination of tissue contributions to the circulating lipid pool in cold exposure via systematic assessment of lipid profiles. J Lipid Res 2022 July;63(7):100197. PMCID: PMC9234243
- Chaurasia B, Ying, L, Talbot CL, Maschek JA, Cox J, Schuchman EH, Hirabayashi Y, Holland WL, Summers SA. Ceramides are necessary and sufficient for dietinduced impairment of thermogenic adipocytes. Mol Metab 2021 Mar;45:101145. PMCID: PMC7807150
- Ying L*, Chaurasia B*, Kaddai V, Wilkerson JL, Maschek JA, Cox J, Wei P, Bensard C, Meikle JP, Clevers H, Shayman AJ, Hirabayashi Y, Holland WL, Rutter J, Summers SA. Serine palmitoyltransferase controls stemness of intestinal progenitors. Nat Comm (1st submission October, 2021, 2nd submission July 25th, 2022). Preprint available at bioRixv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/12/04/2020.12.03.409128.full.pdf *Co-first authors
- Charron MJ, Williams L, Seki Y, Du XQ, Chaurasia B, Saghatelian A, Summers SA, Katz EB, Vuguin PM, Reznik SE. Antioxidant effects of N-acetylcysteine prevent programmed metabolic disease in mice. Diabetes 2020 Aug;69(8):1650-61. PMCID: PMC7372077
- Buffolo M, Pires KM, Ferhat M, Ilkun O, Makaju A, Achenbach A, Bowman F, Atkinson DL, Holland WL, Amri E-Z, Chaurasia B, Franklin S, Boudina S. Identification of a paracrine signaling mechanism linking CD34high progenitors to the regulation of visceral fat expansion and remodeling. Cell Rep 2019 Oct;8(29):270-82. PMCID: PMC10950319
- Karanth S, Chaurasia B, Bowman FM, Tippetts TS, Holland WL, Summers SA, Schlegel A. FOXN3 controls liver glucose metabolism by regulating gluconeogenic substrate selection. Physiol Rep 2019 Sep;7(18):e14238. PMCID: PMC6759504
- Chaurasia B, Tippetts TS, Monibas RM, Liu J, Li Y, Wang L, Wilkerson JL, Sweeney CR, Pereira RF, Sumida DH, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Kaddai V, Lancaster GI, Siddique MM, Poss A, Pearson M, Satapati S, Zhou H, McLaren DG, Previs SF, Chen Y, Qian Y, Petrov A, Wu M, Shen X, Yao J, Nunes CN, Howard AD, Wang L, Erion MD, Rutter J, Holland WL, Kelley DE, Summers SA. Targeting a Ceramide Double-Bond Improves Insulin Resistance and Steatohepatitis. Science 2019 Jul;365(6451):386- 92. PMCID: PMC6787918
- Kiser PD, Kloesnikov AV, Kiser JZ, Dong Z, Chaurasia B, Wang L, Summers SA, Hoang T, Blackshaw S, Peachey NS, Kefalov VJ, Palczewski K. Conditional deletion of Des1 in the mouse retina does not impair the visual cycles in cones. FASEB J 2019 Apr;33(4):5782-92. PMCID: PMC6436658