Purushothama Rao Tata

Assistant Professor of Cell Biology

Appointments and Affiliations

• Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
• Assistant Professor in Medicine
• Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
• Affiliate of the Duke Regeneration Center

Contact Information

• Email Address: purushothamarao.tata@duke.edu
• Websites:
  • Tata lab
  • www.cellbio.duke.edu/purushothama-rao-tata

Education

• Ph.D. University of Ulm (Germany), 2011

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Rising Star Award. International Society for Regenerative Biology. 2022
• Whitehead Scholar Award. Duke University School of Medicine. 2016
• NIH K99-Pathways to Independence Award. National Institutes of Health. 2015
• The Fund for Medical Discovery (FMD) Research Award. Massachusetts General Hospital. 2014

Courses Taught

• CELLBIO 493: Research Independent Study
• CELLBIO 730: Stem Cell Course
• CMB 710D: Cell & Molecular Biology Module IV
• CMB 710E: Cell & Molecular Biology Module V
• DSCB 720: Stem Cell Course
• MOLCAN 730: Stem Cell Course
• PHARM 730: Stem Cell Course

In the News

• Tata to Receive International Society for Regenerative Biology Rising Star Award (Jul 20, 2022)
• NIH-Directors blog- Mini-Lungs in a Lab Dish Mimic Early COVID-19 Infection (Nov 19, 2020 | NIH-Directors blog)
• Lab-Grown Mini-Lungs Mimic the Real Thing – Right Down to Covid Infection (Oct 22, 2020)
• SARS-CoV-2 Targets Many Cell Types, Analysis of Single-Cell Data Suggests (May 11, 2020 | www.hhmi.org)
• Scientists Find Stomach Cells In Lung Cancer (Mar 26, 2018)
• Purushothama Tata: So Many Ideas, So Little Time (Oct 2, 2016)

Representative Publications

• Tighe, RM; Birukova, A; Malakhau, Y; Kobayashi, Y; Vose, AT; Chandramohan, V; Cyphert-Daly, JM; Cumming, RI; Kirshner, HF; Tata, PR; Ingram, JL; Gunn, MD; Que, LG; Yu, Y-RA, Allergic Asthma Responses Are Dependent on Macrophage Ontogeny. (2023) [10.1101/2023.02.16.528861] [abs].
• Apostolou, E; Blau, H; Chien, K; Lancaster, MA; Tata, PR; Trompouki, E; Watt, FM; Zeng, YA; Zernicka-Goetz, M, Progress and challenges in stem cell biology., Nat Cell Biol, vol 25 no. 2 (2023), pp. 203-206 [10.1038/s41556-023-01087-y] [abs].
• Ide, S; Ide, K; Abe, K; Kobayashi, Y; Kitai, H; McKey, J; Strausser, SA; O'Brien, LL; Tata, A; Tata, PR; Souma, T, Sex differences in resilience to ferroptosis underlie sexual dimorphism in kidney injury and repair., Cell Reports, vol 41 no. 6 (2022) [10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111610] [abs].
• Yaron, TM; Heaton, BE; Levy, TM; Johnson, JL; Jordan, TX; Cohen, BM; Kerelsky, A; Lin, T-Y; Liberatore, KM; Bulaon, DK; Van Nest, SJ; Koundouros, N; Kastenhuber, ER; Mercadante, MN; Shobana-Ganesh, K; He, L; Schwartz, RE; Chen, S; Weinstein, H; Elemento, O; Piskounova, E; Nilsson-Payant, BE; Lee, G; Trimarco, JD; Burke, KN; Hamele, CE; Chaparian, RR; Harding, AT; Tata, A; Zhu, X; Tata, PR; Smith, CM; Possemato, AP; Tkachev, SL; Hornbeck, PV; Beausoleil, SA; Anand, SK; Aguet, F; Getz, G; Davidson, AD; Heesom, K; Kavanagh-Williamson, M; Matthews, DA; tenOever, BR; Cantley, LC; Blenis, J; Heaton, NS, Host protein kinases required for SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid phosphorylation and viral replication., Sci Signal, vol 15 no. 757 (2022) [10.1126/scisignal.abm0808] [abs].
• Konkimalla, A; Konishi, S; Kobayashi, Y; Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy, P; Macadlo, L; Mukherjee, A; Elmore, Z; Kim, S-J; Pendergast, AM; Lee, PJ; Asokan, A; Knudsen, L; Bravo-Cordero, JJ; Tata, A; Tata, PR, Multi-apical polarity of alveolar stem cells and their dynamics during lung development and regeneration., Iscience, vol 25 no. 10 (2022) [10.1016/j.isci.2022.105114] [abs].