PRIYA PRAKASH

Postdoctoral Scientist • Glial Cell Biologist

Publications


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*Equal contributionCo-corresponding author

Postdoctoral Work


Myelin pathology is a key feature of X-linked Dystonia Parkinsonism


Priya Prakash†, Kerry C. Limberg*, Weimin Zhang*, Yu Zhao, Klaudia F. Laborc, Anna O'Keeffe, Heather Appleby, Bryanna C. Vilnaigre, Michael R. O'Dea, Cara Fernandez-Cerado, Gierold Paul A. Legarda, Michelle Sy, Edwin L. Munoz, Mark Angelo C. Ang, Cid Czarina E. Diesta, Justin Han, Ean Norenberg, Ellen B. Penney, D. Cristopher Bragg, Adam C. Mar, Ran Brosh, Jef D. Boeke, Shane A. Liddelow†

bioRxiv, 2025


Advances in the genetics and pathology of Lewy body dementia


Sonja W Scholz, Njideka U Okubadejo, Priya Prakash, Shane A Liddelow, Mina Ryten, Glenda M Halliday

The Lancet Neurology, vol. 24(12), 2025, pp. 1026-1037


Genome writing to dissect consequences of SVA retrotransposon disease X-Linked Dystonia Parkinsonism


Weimin Zhang, Yu Zhao*, Priya Prakash*, Heather L. Appleby, Kelly Barriball, Simona Capponi, Qingwen Jiang, Aleksandra M. Wudzinska, Christine A. Vaine, Gwen Ellis, Neha Rahman, Stefan Markovic, Orin Mishkit, Kerry C. Limberg, Matthew T. Maurano, Youssef Z. Wadghiri, Sang Yong Kim, H. T. Marc Timmers, D. Cristopher Bragg, Shane A. Liddelow, Ran Brosh, Jef D. Boeke

bioRxiv, 2025


Single-cell analysis of the nervous system at small and large scales with instant partitions


Paul W. Frazel, K. Fricano-Kugler, Aaron A. May-Zhang, Michael R. O’Dea, Priya Prakash, NM Desmet, H. Lee, Rhoda Meltzer, KM Fontanez, P. Hettige, Y. Agam, G. Lithwick-Yanai, D. Lipson, BW Luikart, Jeremy D. Dasen, Shane A. Liddelow

bioRxiv, 2023


Proteomic profiling of interferon-responsive reactive astrocytes in rodent and human


Priya Prakash†, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Michael R. O’Dea, Christy N. Munson, David Labib, Valentina Fossati, Thomas A. Neubert, Shane A. Liddelow†

Glia, 2023


Proteomic alterations and novel markers of neurotoxic reactive astrocytes in human induced pluripotent stem cell models


David Labib, Zhen Wang, Priya Prakash, Matthew Zimmer, Matthew D. Smith, Paul Frazel, Lilianne Barbar, Maria L. Sapar, Peter A. Calabresi, Junmin Peng, Shane A. Liddelow, Valentina Fossati

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2022


PhD Work


Lipids: Emerging Players of Microglial Biology.


Priya Prakash†, Caitlin E Randolph, Katherine A Walker, Gaurav Chopra†

Glia, 2025


Amyloid-β induces lipid droplet-mediated microglial dysfunction via the enzyme DGAT2 in Alzheimer's disease


Priya Prakash*, Palak Manchanda*, Evi Paouri, Kanchan Bisht, Kaushik Sharma, Jitika Rajpoot, Victoria Wendt, Ahad Hossain, Prageeth R Wijewardhane, Caitlin E Randolph, Yihao Chen, Sarah Stanko, Nadia Gasmi, Anxhela Gjojdeshi, Sophie Card, Jonathan Fine, Krupal P Jethava, Matthew G Clark, Bin Dong, Seohee Ma, Alexis Crockett, Elizabeth A Thayer, Marlo Nicolas, Ryann Davis, Dhruv Hardikar, Daniela Allende, Richard A Prayson, Chi Zhang, Dimitrios Davalos, Gaurav Chopra

Immunity, 2025


One scaffold, different organelle sensors: pH‐activable fluorescent probes for targeting live microglial cell organelles


Krupal P. Jethava*, Priya Prakash*, Palak Manchanda, Harshit Arora, Gaurav Chopra

ChemBioChem, 2022


Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes induce cell death via saturated lipids


Kevin A. Guttenplan, Maya K. Weigel*, Priya Prakash*, Prageeth R. Wijewardhane, Philip Hasel, Uriel A Rufen-Blanchette, Alexandra E. Münch, Jacob A. Blum, Jonathan A Fine, Mikaela C. Neal, Kimberly Bruce, Aaron Gitler, Gaurav Chopra, Shane A. Liddelow, Ben Barres

Nature, 2021


Monitoring phagocytic uptake of amyloid β into glial cell lysosomes in real time


Priya Prakash*, Krupal P. Jethava*, Nils Korte*, Pablo Izquierdo*, Emilia Favuzzi, Indigo V. L. Rose, Kevin A. Guttenplan, Sayan Dutta, Jean-Christophe Rochet, Gordon Fishell, Shane A. Liddelow, David Attwell, Gaurav Chopra

Chemical Science, 2021


Rapid, refined, and robust method for expression, purification, and characterization of recombinant human amyloid beta 1-42


Priya Prakash*, Travis C. Lantz*, Krupal P. Jethava, Gaurav Chopra

Methods and Protocols, 2019