Personal Information:
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Date of
Birth: 24th March
Email: yogeshs [at] psu.edu
Homepage:
www.personal.psu.edu/yus116/ Educational Background: (1999 to 2004) Masters of Sciences (Integrated) in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Current Education: (2004 to present) Graduate program in Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University. |
Words of Wisdom:
Movie: Blue Brothers
Elwood: It's
106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of
cigarettes,
it's dark and we're
wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.
Book: Douglas Adams
I refuse to
answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
Calvin n Hobbes:
Hobbes: 'How's business?'
Calvin
[Sitting at a box that
offers 'A swift kick in the butt, $1.00']: 'Terrible.'
Hobbes: 'That's hard to believe'
Calvin:
'I can't understand it,
everybody I know needs what I'm selling!'
Music I like:
Pink
Floyd, The Eagles, Nirvana, Beatles, Elvis .....and list goes on ....
Research
My graduate research involves two separate projects with a common theme to understand the role of
serotonin in mood and anxiety disorders. My first project involves investigating changes in serotonin
neurotransmission modulated by the serotonin transporter(SERT) using carbon fiber microelectrodes and
fast cyclic voltammetry in mice. My second project involves studying alterations in serotonin uptake with
respect to common polymorphisms in the human and rhesus SERT genes in
peripheral blood cells using
chronoamperometry.
Poster Presented:
- High-speed
chronoamperometric determination of serotonin transporter function in
human
lymphoblasts. Y. S. Singh, A. J. Bressler, R. Ren-Patterson, D. L. Murphy, and A. M. Andrews:
36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA (Oct 17, 2006). - Serotonin uptake rates
in synaptosomes using boron-doped diamond electrodes. Y. S. Singh, B.
A. Patel, A. J. Bressler, G. M. Swain, and A. M. Andrews: 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience, San Diego, CA (Nov 7, 2007). - Serotonin release and
reuptake using in vivo fast cyclic voltammetry in serotonin transporter
deficient mice. Y. S. Singh, B. A. Patel, A. J. Bressler, G. M. Swain, and A. M. Andrews: 37th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA (Nov 7, 2007). - Serotonin uptake in
rhesus peripheral blood mononuclear cells by chronoamperometry with
boron-doped diamond electrodes. Y. S. Singh, B. A. Patel, A. J. Bressler, and A. M. Andrews:
Neuroscience Days, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (Oct 2007). - Serotonin uptake in
rhesus peripheral blood mononuclear cells using boron-doped diamond
electrodes and chronoamperometry. Y. S. Singh, B. A. Patel, L. E. Sawarynski, and A. M.
Andrews: 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC (Nov 15, 2008). - Serotonin uptake in
rhesus peripheral blood mononuclear cells using boron-doped diamond
electrodes and chronoamperometry. Y. S. Singh, B. A. Patel, L. E. Sawarynski, and A. M.
Andrews: Neuroscience Days, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA (Nov 2008). - Measuring serotonin
transporter function in rhesus peripheral blood lymphocytes using
boron-
doped diamond electrodes. Y. S. Singh, B. S. Beikmann, L. E. Sawarynski, B. A. Patel, and A. M.
Andrews: 237th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (Mar 25, 2009). -
Rhesus serotonin transporter-linked promoter polymorphism is associated
with differential
uptake in peripheral blood lymphocytes. Y. S. Singh, S. C. Altieri, and A. M. Andrews:
39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL (Oct 19, 2009). -
Investigation of materials to reduce fouling of carbon fiber
microelectrodes for the
detection of serotonin in vivo. L. E. Sawarynski, Y. S. Singh, B. A. Patel, and A. M. Andrews:
39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL (Oct 19, 2009).
