Education
PhD, Albany Medical College, 2017
Lab information
I am the senior postdoctoral fellow in the Kenneth R. Norman Lab at Albany Medical College. My work focuses on non-amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, with a an emphasis on aberrant calcium signaling and subsequent mitochondrial damage.
Publications
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=Shaarika+SarasijaSarasija S, Norman KR. Mutations in presenilin cause defects in mitochondrial calcium homeostasis and metabolic activity resulting in neurodegeneration. (Under peer-review at Elife)
Sarasija S, Norman KR. H2-DCFDA fluorescence measurement of ROS in in Caenorhabditis elegans. (Accepted at BioProtocol)
Sarasija S, Norman KR. Mitochondrial morphology analysis in in Caenorhabditis elegans. (Accepted at BioProtocol)
Sarasija S, Norman KR. A γ-Secretase Independent Role for Presenilin in Calcium Homeostasis Impacts Mitochondrial Function and Morphology in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 2015; 201(4):1453-66.