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Name:Deepak Kumar Khadka

Academic Qualification:Ph.D. (Life Sciences)

Job description:Research and Teaching Specialist IV

Contact:

Department of Biochemistry
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
675 Hoes Lane, R-629
Piscataway, NJ 08854

Tel. 908-720-6404 (cell) 732-235-4193 (work)
Fax 732-235-4783
Email: khadkade@umdnj.edu

Employment Record:

Research and Teaching Specialist IV , 2005-
UMDNJ-RWJMS
Piscataway, NJ

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001- 2004
NICHD/NIH
Bethesda, MD
Tel. 301-496-0369

Publications:

Khadka D, Luo T and Sargent TD. 2006. Msx1 and Msx2 have redundant, essential functions in neural crest but are dispensable for epidermis and axis formation in Xenopus Int J Dev Biol 50:499-502

Sato A, Khadka D, Liu W, Bharti R, Runnels LW, Dawid IG and Habas R. 2006. Profilin1 is an effector of Daam1 in non-canonical Wnt signaling and is required for vertebrate gastrulation. Development 2006 Nov;133(21):4219-31

Luo T, Zhang YH, Khadka D, Rangarajan J, Cho KWY and Sargent TD. 2005. Regulatory targets for transcription factor AP2 in Xenopus Embryos. Develop Growth Differ 47:403–413

Luo T, Rangarajan J, Zhang YH, Khadka D and Sargent TD. 2004. Identification of Target Genes for Transcription Factor AP2a in Xenopus Ectoderm. 2004 NIH Research Festival, Bethesda.

Khadka DK, Nejidat A, Tal M and Golan-Goldhirsh A. 2004. Molecular Characterization of a DNA Marker for Sex and a Related Gene in Mercurialis annua. Planta222:1063–1070.