Education

PhD (Chemistry), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, 2004

Current position

Assistant Professor, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, India

Publications

1. Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=sUdDfUMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
2. Singh, A., Kumar, S., Singh, V. P., Das, A. and Balaji, J. (2017). Flavor Dependent Retention of Remote Food Preference Memory. Front Behav Neurosci 11: 7.
3. Kumar, S., Singh, A., Singh, V. R., George, J. B. and Balaji, J. (2016). Saturation Dynamics Measures Absolute Cross Section and Generates Contrast within a Neuron. Biophys J 111(6): 1328-1336.
4. Rogerson, T., Jayaprakash, B., Cai, D. J., Sano, Y., Lee, Y. S., Zhou, Y., Bekal, P., Deisseroth, K. and Silva, A. J. (2016). Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms for Trapping and Activating Emotional Memories. PLoS One 11(8): e0161655.
5. Singh, H. J., Singh, V. R., Sikdar, S. K. and Jayaprakash, B. (2016). A GhoshCircular Differential Two-Photon Luminescence from Helically Arranged Plasmonic Nanoparticles. ACS Photonics 3(5): 863-868.
6. Lee, Y. S., Ehninger, D., Zhou, M., Oh, J. Y., Kang, M., Kwak, C., Ryu, H. H., Butz, D., Araki, T., Cai, Y., Balaji, J., Sano, Y., Nam, C. I., Kim, H. K., Kaang, B. K., Burger, C., Neel, B. G. and Silva, A. J. (2014). Mechanism and treatment for learning and memory deficits in mouse models of Noonan syndrome. Nat Neurosci 17(12): 1736-1743.
7. Czajkowski, R., Jayaprakash, B., Wiltgen, B., Rogerson, T., Guzman-Karlsson, M. C., Barth, A. L., Trachtenberg, J. T. and Silva, A. J. (2014). Encoding and storage of spatial information in the retrosplenial cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111(23): 8661-8666.
8. Zhou, M., Li, W., Huang, S., Song, J., Kim, J. Y., Tian, X., Kang, E., Sano, Y., Liu, C., Balaji, J., Wu, S., Zhou, Y., Zhou, Y., Parivash, S. N., Ehninger, D., He, L., Song, H., Ming, G. L. and Silva, A. J. (2013). mTOR Inhibition ameliorates cognitive and affective deficits caused by Disc1 knockdown in adult-born dentate granule neurons. Neuron 77(4): 647-654.
9. Singh, A., Kumar, S., Singh, V. P. and Balaji, J. (2013). Optical microscopy methods for understanding learning and memory. Curr Sci 105(11): 1537-1548.
10. Sarkar, B., Das, A. K., Arumugam, S., Kaushalya, S. K., Bandyopadhyay, A., Balaji, J. and Maiti, S. (2012). The dynamics of somatic exocytosis in monoaminergic neurons. Front Physiol 3: 414.
11. Wiltgen, B. J., Zhou, M., Cai, Y., Balaji, J., Karlsson, M. G., Parivash, S. N., Li, W. and Silva, A. J. (2010). The hippocampus plays a selective role in the retrieval of detailed contextual memories. Curr Biol 20(15): 1336-1344.
12. Kaushalya, S. K., Balaji, J., Garai, K. and Maiti, S. (2005). Fluorescence correlation microscopy with real-time alignment readout. Appl Opt 44(16): 3262-3265.
13. Zhou, Y., Won, J., Karlsson, M. G., Zhou, M., Rogerson, T., Balaji, J., Neve, R., Poirazi, P. and Silva, A. J. (2009). CREB regulates excitability and the allocation of memory to subsets of neurons in the amygdala. Nat Neurosci 12(11): 1438-1443.
14. Silva, A. J., Zhou, Y., Rogerson, T., Shobe, J. and Balaji, J. (2009). Molecular and cellular approaches to memory allocation in neural circuits. Science 326(5951): 391-395.
15. Kaushalya, S. K., Desai, R., Arumugam, S., Ghosh, H., Balaji, J. and Maiti, S. (2008). Three-photon microscopy shows that somatic release can be a quantitatively significant component of serotonergic neurotransmission in the mammalian brain. J Neurosci Res 86(15): 3469-3480.
16. Sahoo, B., Balaji, J., Nag, S., Kaushalya, S. K. and Maiti, S. (2008). Protein aggregation probed by two-photon fluorescence correlation spectroscopy of native tryptophan. J Chem Phys 129(7): 075103.
17. Balaji, J., Armbruster, M. and Ryan, T. A. (2008). Calcium control of endocytic capacity at a CNS synapse. J Neurosci 28(26): 6742-6749.
18. Nag, S., Balaji, J., Madhu, P. K. and Maiti, S. (2008). Intermolecular association provides specific optical and NMR signatures for serotonin at intravesicular concentrations. Biophys J 94(10): 4145-4153.
19. Basu, B., Desai, R., Balaji, J., Chaerkady, R., Sriram, V., Maiti, S. and Panicker, M. M. (2008). Serotonin in pre-implantation mouse embryos is localized to the mitochondria and can modulate mitochondrial potential. Reproduction 135(5): 657-669.
20. Balaji, J. and Ryan, T. A. (2007). Single-vesicle imaging reveals that synaptic vesicle exocytosis and endocytosis are coupled by a single stochastic mode. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104(51): 20576-20581.
21. Balaji, J., Desai, R., Kaushalya, S. K., Eaton, M. J. and Maiti, S. (2005). Quantitative measurement of serotonin synthesis and sequestration in individual live neuronal cells. J Neurochem 95(5): 1217-1226.
22. Kaushalya, S. K., Balaji, J., Garai, K. and Maiti, S. (2005). Fluorescence correlation microscopy with real-time alignment readout. Appl Opt 44(16): 3262-3265.
23. Balaji, J. and Maiti, S. (2005). Quantitative measurement of the resolution and sensitivity of confocal microscopes using line‐scanning fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Micro Res and Tech 66(4): 198-202.
24. Balaji, J., Reddy, C. S., Kaushalya, S. K. and Maiti, S. (2004). Microfluorometric detection of catecholamines with multiphoton-excited fluorescence. Appl Opt 43(12): 2412-2417.
25. Balaji, J., Desai, R. and Maiti, S. (2004). Live cell ultraviolet microscopy: a comparison between two- and three-photon excitation. Microsc Res Tech 63(1): 67-71.
26. Balaji, J., Garai, K., Chakrabarti, S. and Maiti, S. (2003). Axial resolution limit of a fiber-optic fluorescence probe. Applied optics 42(19): 3780-3784.
27. Sengupta, P., Garai, K., Balaji, J., Periasamy, N. and Maiti, S. (2003). Measuring size distribution in highly heterogeneous systems with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Biophys J 84(3): 1977-1984.
28. Balaji, J., Kaushalya, S. K., Desai, R. and Maiti, S. (2003). Single cell pharmacology: Quantitative imaging of serotonin in live neuronal cells. Biophys J 84(2): 582A-582A.
29. Sengupta, P., Balaji, J. and Maiti, S. (2002). Measuring diffusion in cell membranes by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Methods 27(4): 374-387.
30. Sengupta, P., Balaji, J., Banerjee, S., Philip, R., Kumar, G. R. and Maiti, S. (2000). Sensitive measurement of absolute two-photon absorption cross sections. J Chem Phys 112(21): 9201-9205.