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RAHUL RAGHAVAN

Post-doctoral Associate

Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

I seek to better understand evolutionary processes that facilitate lifestyle shifts in bacteria. Currently I study genome and ncRNA evolution that occur when a bacterium moves from a free-living to a host-associated niche.

e-mail: r.raghavan@yale.edu

Academic History

Ph.D., Microbiology & Biochemistry, The University of Montana, 2008
MSc., Medical Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, India, 1998
BSc., Zoology, Botany & Chemistry, University of Calicut, India, 1995

Professional History

Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, April 2010-present
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Arizona, 2009-2010
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Montana, 2008-2009
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Montana, 2005-2008
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Montana, 2004-2005
Research Scientist, Triesta Sciences LLC, Bangalore, India, 2003-2004
Research Associate, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India, 2002-2003
Microbiologist, ARMS Diagnostic and Research Center, Calicut, India, 1999-2003
Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, University of Calicut, India, 1998-2003
Trainee Microbiologist, Kasurba Medical College, Manipal, India, 1996-1998

Publications

Kuo C-H., H. Ochman and R. Raghavan. Determinants of bacterial genome size and complexity. In Walk, S. and P. Feng (ed.), Bacterial Population Genetics: A Tribute to Thomas S. Whittam, ASM Press, Washington DC. In press.

Minnick.M.F., L.D. Hicks, J.M. Battisti and R. Raghavan. Pentamidine inhibits Coxiella burnetii 23S rRNA intron splicing and intracellular growth. Int. J. Antimicrob. Agents. In press.

Hicks, L.D., R. Raghavan, J.M. Battisti and M.F. Minnick. 2010. A DNA-binding peroxiredoxin of Coxiella burnetii is involved in countering oxidative stress during exponential-phase growth. J. Bacteriol. 192:2077-2084.

Ochman, H. and R. Raghavan. 2009. Excavating the functional landscape of bacterial cells (Perspective). Science 326:1200-1201.

Raghavan, R. and M.F. Minnick. 2009. Group I introns and inteins: disparate origins; convergent parasitic strategies. J Bacteriol. 191:6193-6202

Raghavan, R., L.D. Hicks and M.F. Minnick. 2009. A unique group I intron In Coxiella burnetii is a natural splice mutant. J. Bacteriol. 191: 4044-4046

Raghavan, R., L.D. Hicks and M.F. Minnick. 2008. Toxic introns and parasitic intein in Coxiella burnetii: Legacies of a promiscuous past. J. Bacteriol. 190:5934-5943

Raghavan, R., S.R. Miller, L.D. Hicks and M.F. Minnick. 2007. The unusual 23S rRNA of Coxiella burnetii: Two self-splicing group I introns flank a 34-Base-Pair exon and one element lacks the canonical ΩG. J. Bacteriol. 189:6572-6579

Battisti, J.M., L.S. Smitherman, K.N. Sappington, N.L. Parrow, R.Raghavan, and M.F. Minnick. 2007. Transcriptional regulation of the heme binding protein gene family of Bartonella quintana is accomplished by a novel promoter element and iron response regulator. Infect. Immun. 75:4373-4385

Nagaraj, S., R. Raghavan, R. Maceden and A.V. Kurpad. 2004. Intestinal parasitic infection and total serum IgE in asymptomatic adult males in an urban slum and efficacy of antiparasitic therapy. Indian J. Med. Microbiol. 22:54-56