Saji Kumar Sreedharan

Saji Kumar Sreedharan

Ph.D.

Associate Professor


+65-6516 5886 (office);
+65-6601 3191 (Lab)

+65-6777 3271


phssks@nus.edu.sg


(Synaptic plasticity and Memory)

Affiliations

  • Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore
  • Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme

Research Areas of Interest:

  • Aging and Neurodegeneration
  • Neural basis of long-term memory (LTM).
  • Synaptic tagging and capture (STC) as an elementary mechanism for storing LTM in neural networks.
  • Metaplasticity as a compensatory mechanism for improving memory in neural networks.

Selected Publications

For full publication list please refer:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Sajikumar+S&sort=date

  1. Bin Ibrahim, M. Z., & Sajikumar, S. (2024). Exploring New Horizons: Synaptic Tagging and Capture Beyond Space and Time. Synaptic Tagging and Capture: From Synapses to Behavior, (pp. 237-253). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  2. Zhu, Y., Mei, Y., Baby, N., Teo, H. Y., Binte Hanafi, Z., Mohd Salleh, S. N., Sajikumar, S. & Liu, H. (2023). Tumor-mediated microbiota alteration impairs synaptic tagging/capture in the hippocampal CA1 area via IL-1β production. Communications Biology, 6(1), 685.
  3. Varma, V. R., Desai, R. J., Navakkode, S., Wong, L. W., Anerillas, C., Loeffler, T., Schilcher, I., Mahesri, M., Chin, K., Horton, D. B., Kim, S. C., Gerhard, T., Segal, J. B., Schneeweiss, S., Gorospe, M., Sajikumar, S., & Thambisetty, M. (2022). Hydroxychloroquine lowers Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias risk and rescues molecular phenotypes related to Alzheimer’s disease. Molecular psychiatry, 10.1038/s41380-022-01912-0. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01912-0
  4. Singh, A. K., Neo, S. H., Liwang, C., Pang, K. K. L., Leng, J. C. K., Sinha, S. H., Shetty, M. S., Vasudevan, M., Rao, V. J., Joshi, I., Eswaramoorthy, M., Pavon, M. V., Sheila, A. R., Navakkode, S., Kundu, T. K., & Sajikumar, S. (2022). Glucose derived carbon nanosphere (CSP) conjugated TTK21, an activator of the histone acetyltransferases CBP/p300, ameliorates amyloid-beta 1-42 induced deficits in plasticity and associativity in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Aging cell21(9), e13675. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13675
  5. Navakkode S, Gaunt JR, Pavon MV, Bansal VA, Abraham RP, Chong YS, Ch’ng TH*, Sajikumar S*. (2021). Sex-specific accelerated decay in time/activity-dependent plasticity and associative memory in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease. Aging Cell. 2021 Nov 18:e13502. doi: 10.1111/acel.13502. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34796608
  6. Benoy A, Bin Ibrahim MZ, Behnisch T, Sajikumar S (2021). Metaplastic Reinforcement of Long-Term Potentiation in Hippocampal Area CA2 by Cholinergic Receptor Activation. Journal of Neuroscience. 2021 Nov 3;41(44):9082-9098. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2885-20.2021. Epub 2021 Sep 24. PMID: 34561235
  7. Wong LW, Chong YS, Lin W, Kisiswa L, Sim E, Ibáñez CF, Sajikumar S (2021). Age-related changes in hippocampal-dependent synaptic plasticity and memory mediated by p75 neurotrophin receptor. Aging Cell. 2021 Feb;20(2):e13305. doi: 10.1111/acel.13305. Epub 2021 Jan 15.
  8. Krishna-K K, Baby N, Raghuraman R, Navakkode S, Behnisch T, Sajikumar S (2020). Regulation of aberrant proteasome activity re-establishes plasticity and long-term memory in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease. FASEB J. 2020 May 27. doi: 10.1096/fj.201902844RR.
  9. Dasgupta A, Yu Jia L, Krishna K, Baby N, Pang KKL, Benoy A, Behnisch T and Sajikumar S (2020). Group III metabotropic glutamate receptors gate long-term potentiation and synaptic tagging/capture in rat hippocampal area CA2. Elife. 2020 Apr 20;9:e55344. doi: 10.7554/eLife.55344.
  10. Wong LW, Chong YS, Wong WLE, Sajikumar S (2020). Inhibition of Histone Deacetylase Reinstates Hippocampus-Dependent Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity and Associative Memory in Sleep-Deprived Mice. Cereb Cortex. 2020 Jun 1;30(7):4169-4182. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa041.
  11. Baby N, Alagappan N, Dheen ST , Sajikumar S (2019). MicroRNA‐134‐5p inhibition rescues long‐term plasticity and synaptic tagging/capture in an Aβ(1–42)‐induced model of Alzheimer’s disease. Aging Cell. 2019 Oct 17:e13046. doi: 10.1111/acel.13046.
  12. Pang, K.K.L., Sharma, M., Krishna, K.K., Behnisch, T., Sajikumar, S. (2019). Long-term population spike-timing-dependent plasticity promotes synaptic tagging but not cross-tagging in rat hippocampal area CA1. PNAS. 116(12), 5737-5746.
  13. Sharma, M., Sajikumar, S. (2019). G9a/GLP Complex Acts as a Bidirectional Switch to Regulate Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Dependent Plasticity in Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons. Cerebral Cortex. 29(7), 2932-2946.
  14. Wong, L.W., Tann, J.Y., Ibanez, C.F., Sajikumar, S. (2019). The p75 Neurotrophin Receptor Is an Essential Mediator of Impairments in Hippocampal-Dependent Associative Plasticity and Memory Induced by Sleep Deprivation. J. Neurosci. 39(28), 5452-5465.
  15. Sharma, M., Sajikumar, S. (2018). G9a/GLP Complex Acts as a Bidirectional Switch to Regulate Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Dependent Plasticity in Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons. Cerebral Cortex. 29(7), 2932-2946.
  16. Dasgupta, A., Baby, N., Hakim, M., Wong, Y.P., Behnisch, T., Soong, T.W., Sajikumar, S. (2017) Substance P induces plasticity and synaptic tagging/ capture in rat hippocampal area CA2. PNAS 2017 Jun 30. 114(41), E8741-E8749
  17. Sharma, M., Dierkes, T., Sajikumar, S. (2017) Epigenetic regulation by G9a/GLP complex ameliorates amyloid-beta 1-42 induced deficits in long-term plasticity and synaptic tagging/capture in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Aging Cell. 16(5), 1062-1072

Awards

  • 2024 Investigator Award: International Association of Studies of Neurons and Disease (AND)
  • From 2023 Fellow of Indian Association of Neuroscience (FIAN)
  • 2021 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Graduate Mentor of the Year (GRAMAY) Award 2021
  • 2019/2020 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Teaching Excellence Award
  • 2016/2017 NUS Research Excellence Award
  • 2017 Young Neuroscientist Award-2017-Singapore Neuroscience Association
  • 2010-2012 Alexander von Humboldt fellowship
  • 2005 ‘Summa Cum laude’ (excellent) grade for doctoral thesis from Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
  • 2005 Faculty prize for the ‘best Ph.D thesis' from Natural Science faculty, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
  • 2000-2001 Junior Research Fellowship from Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) Delhi, India.
  • 2000 Frist Rank, M.Sc Physiology University of Calicut Kerala, India.
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