ZFIN Person: Karra, Ravi

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-100811-4

Karra, Ravi

Email:	ravi.karra@duke.edu
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Address:	HHMI, Department of Cell Biology Box 3709 Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710 USA
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Yan, R., Cigliola, V., Oonk, K.A., Petrover, Z., DeLuca, S., Wolfson, D.W., Vekstein, A., Mendiola, M.A., Devlin, G., Bishawi, M., Gemberling, M.P., Sinha, T., Sargent, M.A., York, A.J., Shakked, A., DeBenedittis, P., Wendell, D.C., Ou, J., Kang, J., Goldman, J.A., Baht, G.S., Karra, R., Williams, A.R., Bowles, D.E., Asokan, A., Tzahor, E., Gersbach, C.A., Molkentin, J.D., Bursac, N., Black, B.L., Poss, K.D. (2022) An enhancer-based gene-therapy strategy for spatiotemporal control of cargoes during tissue repair. Cell Stem Cell. 30(1):96-111.e6

Brezitski, K.D., Goff, A.W., DeBenedittis, P., Karra, R. (2021) A Roadmap to Heart Regeneration Through Conserved Mechanisms in Zebrafish and Mammals. Current cardiology reports. 23:29

Gancz, D., Raftrey, B.C., Perlmoter, G., Marín-Juez, R., Semo, J., Matsuoka, R.L., Karra, R., Raviv, H., Moshe, N., Addadi, Y., Golani, O., Poss, K.D., Red-Horse, K., Stainier, D.Y., Yaniv, K. (2019) Distinct origins and molecular mechanisms contribute to lymphatic formation during cardiac growth and regeneration. eLIFE. 8:

Fernandez, C.E., Bakovic, M., Karra, R. (2018) Endothelial Contributions to Zebrafish Heart Regeneration. Journal of cardiovascular development and disease. 5(4)

Karra, R., Foglia, M.J., Choi, W.Y., Belliveau, C., DeBenedittis, P., Poss, K.D. (2018) Vegfaa instructs cardiac muscle hyperplasia in adult zebrafish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115(35):8805-8810

Goldman, J.A., Kuzu, G., Lee, N., Karasik, J., Gemberling, M., Foglia, M.J., Karra, R., Dickson, A.L., Sun, F., Tolstorukov, M.Y., Poss, K.D. (2017) Resolving Heart Regeneration by Replacement Histone Profiling. Developmental Cell. 40:392-404.e5

Karra, R., Poss, K.D. (2017) Redirecting cardiac growth mechanisms for therapeutic regeneration. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 127:427-436

Kang, J., Hu, J., Karra, R., Dickson, A.L., Tornini, V.A., Nachtrab, G., Gemberling, M., Goldman, J.A., Black, B.L., Poss, K.D. (2016) Modulation of tissue repair by regeneration enhancer elements. Nature. 532(7598):201-6

Cao, J., Navis, A., Cox, B.D., Dickson, A.L., Gemberling, M., Karra, R., Bagnat, M., Poss, K.D. (2016) Single epicardial cell transcriptome sequencing identifies Caveolin-1 as an essential factor in zebrafish heart regeneration. Development (Cambridge, England). 143(2):232-43

Karra, R., Knecht, A.K., Kikuchi, K., Poss, K.D. (2015) Myocardial NF-κB activation is essential for zebrafish heart regeneration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112(43):13255-60

Gemberling, M., Karra, R., Dickson, A.L., Poss, K.D. (2015) Nrg1 is an injury-induced cardiomyocyte mitogen for the endogenous heart regeneration program in zebrafish. eLIFE. 4

Wang, J., Karra, R., Dickson, A.L., and Poss, K.D. (2013) Fibronectin is deposited by injury-activated epicardial cells and is necessary for zebrafish heart regeneration. Developmental Biology. 382(2):427-435

Fang, Y., Gupta, V., Karra, R., Holdway, J.E., Kikuchi, K., and Poss, K.D. (2013) Translational profiling of cardiomyocytes identifies an early Jak1/Stat3 injury response required for zebrafish heart regeneration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110(33):13416-13421

Gupta, V., Gemberling, M., Karra, R., Rosenfeld, G.E., Evans, T., and Poss, K.D. (2013) An Injury-Responsive Gata4 Program Shapes the Zebrafish Cardiac Ventricle. Current biology : CB. 23(13):1221-7

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS