Professional Activities
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
1. Rahul Basu, Sundar Ganesan, Clayton W. Winkler, Sarah L. Anzick, Craig Martens, Karin E. Peterson and Iain D.C. Fraser. Identification of age-specific gene regulators of La Crosse virus neuroinvasion and pathogenesis. Nature Communications. Pages 1-15, Volume 14, Issue 1 (Article 2836), 2023 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37833-x, Impact factor: 17.2).
2. Julia L. Gross, Rahul Basu, Clinton J. Bradfield, Jing Sun, Sinu P. John, Sanchita Das, John P. Dekker, David S. Weiss, Iain D. C. Fraser. Bactericidal Antibiotic Treatment Induces Damaging Inflammation via TLR9 Sensing of Bacterial DNA. Nature Communications. Pages 1-16, Volume 15, 1 (Article 10359), 2024 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54497-3, Impact factor: 17.2)
3. Rahul Basu, Vinod Nair, Clayton W. Winkler, Tyson A. Woods, Iain D. C. Fraser and Karin E. Peterson: Age influences susceptibility of brain capillary endothelial cells to La Crosse virus infection and cell death. Journal of Neuroinflammation. Pages 1-15, Volume 18, Issue 125, 2021 (doi: 10.1186/s12974-021-02173-4, Impact factor: 10.9).
4. Rahul Basu, Kaveri Banerjee, Abhishek Bose and Jayasri Das Sarma. Mouse Hepatitis Virus infection remodels Connexin43 mediated gap junction intercellular communication both in vitro and in vivo. Journal of Virology. Pages 2586-2599, Volume 90, Issue 5, 2016 (doi: 10.1128/JVI.02420-15, Impact factor: 4).
5. Rahul Basu, Abhishek Bose, Deepthi Thomas and Jayasri Das Sarma. Mouse Hepatitis Virus alters microtubule network assisted Connexin43 trafficking to the cell surface in primary astrocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. Pages 14747-14763, Volume 292, Issue 36, 2017 (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M117.786491, Impact factor: 4.3).
6. Abhishek Bose, Rahul Basu, Mahua Maulik and Jayasri Das Sarma. Loss of Cx43-Mediated Functional Gap Junction Communication in Meningeal Fibroblasts Following Mouse Hepatitis Virus Infection. Molecular Neurobiology. Pages 6658-6571, Volume 55, Issue 8, 2018 (doi: 10.1007/s12035-017-0861-3, Impact factor: 4.8).
7. Durbadal Ojha, Rahul Basu and Karin E. Peterson. Therapeutic targeting of organelles for inhibition of Zika virus replication in neurons. Antiviral Research. Volume 209, January 2023. (doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2022.105464). (Impact factor: 4.3)
8. Rahul Basu and Jayasri Das Sarma. Connexin 43/47 channels are important for astrocyte/oligodendrocyte cross-talk in myelination and demyelination. Journal of Biosciences. Pages 1055-1068, Volume 43, Issue 5, 2018 (doi: 10.1007/s12038-018-9811-0, Impact factor: 2.6)
9. Rahul Basu and Jayasri Das Sarma. Oligodendroglial-astroglial cell-cell communication in the Central Nervous System. Book chapter in The Biology of Glial Cells: Recent Advances. (Chapter 4, Pages 75-93, 2022, ISBN: 9789811683121).
10. Rahul Basu and Jayasri Das Sarma. Oligodendroglial Gap junction communication in CNS myelination and demyelination. Book chapter in The Biology of Glial Cells: Recent Advances. (Chapter 5, Pages 95-113, 2022, ISBN: 9789811683121).
11. Satavisha Ghosh, Rishika Jana, Soumen Jana, Rahul Basu, Madhurima Chatterjee, Nishtha Ranawat, Jayasri Das Sarma. Differential expression of cellular prion protein (PrPC) in mouse hepatitis virus induced neuroinflammation. Journal of Neurovirology. Pages 215-228, Volume 30, Issue 3, 2024 (doi.org/10.1007/s13365-024-01215-w, Impact factor: 2.3, Cover Page Article).
12. Renee Delgado, Jyoti Vishwakarma, Seyed Arad Moghadasi, Yuka Otsuka, Justin Shumate, Ashley Cuell, Megan Tansiongco, Christina B. Cooley, Yanjun Chen, Agnieszka Dabrowska, Rahul Basu, Paulina Duhita Anindita, Dahai Luo, Peter I. Dosa, Daniel A. Harki, Thomas Bannister, Louis Scampavia, Timothy P. Spicer, and Reuben S. Harris. SARS-CoV-2. Mpro inhibitor identification using a cellular gain-of-signal assay for high-throughput screening. SLAS Discovery. Pages 100181 (1-12), Volume 29, Issue 6, 2024 (doi.org/10.1016/j.slasd.2024.100181, Impact factor: 3.3).
13. Philipp Flury, Jyoti Vishwakarma, Katharina Sylvester, Nobuyo Higashi-Kuwata, Agnieszka Dabrowska, Renee Delgado, Ashley Cuell, Rahul Basu, Alexander B. Taylor, Ellen Gonçalves de Oliveira, Mateus Sá Magalhães, Serafim, Jingxin Qiao, Yan Chen, Shengyong Yang, Anthony J. O’Donoghue, Michael Gütschow, Stefan A. Laufer, Hiroaki Mitsuya, Christa E. Müller, Reuben S. Harris and Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar. Azapeptide-based SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors: Design, Synthesis, Enzyme Inhibition, Structural Determination, and Antiviral Activity. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Pages 19339–19376, Volume 68, Issue 18, 2025 (doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c01520, Impact factor: 7.2).
14. Renee Delgado, Jyoti Vishwakarma, Javier O Sanlley Hernandez, Megan Tansiongco, Ashley Cuell, Agnieszka Dabrowska, Rahul Basu, Philipp AM Schmidpeter, You Hu, Susan E Tsutakawa, Christina B Cooley, Rommie E Amaro, Reuben S Harris. A split luciferase system for studying coronavirus Mpro dimerization in vitro and in living cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. Pages 110890 (1-13), Volume 301, Issue 12, 2025 (doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110890, Impact factor: 4.3).
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
A. Expression Sequence Tag (EST) database entry (NCBI):
Kundu, A., Paul, S., Basu, R., Pal, A. ESTs submitted in SSH library of MYMIV infected Vigna mungo (T9).
B. NCBI GEO Submission
Gse217434 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=Gse217434)
C. Published Abstract:
1. Rahul Basu, Clayton Winkler and Karin E. Peterson. The age dependent response of Brain Capillary Endothelial Cells during La Crosse Virus infection. Cerebral vascular biology (CVB) conference, Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2019, 16(Suppl 1): I1, 2019.
2. Julia Gross, Rahul Basu, Clinton Bradfield, Jing Sun, Tom Moyer, Margery Smelkinson, Sophia Antonioli-Schmit, Elizabeth Fischer, John Dekker, David Weiss, Iain DC Fraser. Defining how Antibiotic Treatments shape Host Immunity. American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Meeting, Journal of Immunology, 2023 210 (1_Supplement).
Served as a Reviewer in
Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Medicine, Frontiers in Physiology, Molecular Neurobiology, Frontiers in Virology, Discover Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroinflammation, Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
Serving as Reviewing Editor in
Frontiers in Virology
Newsletter Appearance
Grishma Kasle, Rahul Basu, Abhishek Bose, Rishika Jana, Mahua Maulik and Jayasri Das Sarma. Connexin 43: a promising therapeutic target against ß-coronaviruses. ISCB NewsLetter, Volume 47, Issue 1, ISSN 2349-8307
Other Achievements
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2025: Review Editor position, Frontiers in Virology - Fundamental Virology
2024: Midwest Antiviral Drug Discovery Center travel award
2023: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Specialist funding
2022: NIH Biosurety program approval (Security Executive Agent Directive (SEAD)-3 cleared, for BSL-3/4 agents) Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Government of the USA.
2017-2020: RML-Beth Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, USA
2014-2017: Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India
2012-2014: Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India
2014: Best poster award, Indo-US symposium on Neurovirology, IISER-Kolkata & NBRC
2012: Du Pré Grant, Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF)
2006: Excellence in higher secondary examination, “Merit-cum-Means Scholarship Scheme”, Government of West Bengal, India
NATIONAL LEVEL EXAMINATIONS
2010: National Eligibility Test, CSIR-UCG, India. Rank: 129.
2011: Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE), India. Rank: 209.
