Arjun Guha PhD
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
72 E. Concord Street | (617) 638-4860aguha@bu.edu

Sections
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Centers
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Biography
Research Interests: Cell fate specification and cellular plasticity in lung development and repair, Non-classical stem cell hierarchies, Pulmonary neuroepithelial cells and their microenvironment, and Notch signaling
Education
Cell & Molecular Biology, PhD, Manipal University
Biology, BS, Wabash College
Publications
Joy N, Deshpande A, Lingamallu SM, Prabantu VM, Naveenkumar CN, Bharathkumar K, Bhat S, Alvarado-Martinez Z, Livraghi-Butrico A, Hagood JS, Boucher RC, Lafkas D, Byrd KM, Narayanan S, Shandil RK, Guha A. Notch signaling stabilizes lengths of motile cilia in multiciliated cells in the lung. bioRxiv. 2024 Dec 12. PMID: 39713474.
Published on 8/24/2024Lingamallu SM, Deshpande A, Joy N, Ganeshan K, Ray N, Ladher RK, Taketo MM, Lafkas D, Guha A. Neuroepithelial bodies and terminal bronchioles are niches for distinctive club cells that repair the airways following acute notch inhibition. Cell Rep. 2024 Sep 24; 43(9):114654. PMID: 39182223.
Published on 5/1/2022Sain Basu D, Bhavsar R, Gulami I, Chavda S, Lingamallu SM, Muddashetty R, Veeranna C, Chattarji S, Thimmulappa R, Bhattacharya A, Guha A. FMRP protects the lung from xenobiotic stress by facilitating the integrated stress response. J Cell Sci. 2022 05 01; 135(9). PMID: 35319067.
Published on 10/8/2021Kizhedathu A, Chhajed P, Yeramala L, Sain Basu D, Mukherjee T, Vinothkumar KR, Guha A. Duox-generated reactive oxygen species activate ATR/Chk1 to induce G2 arrest in Drosophila tracheoblasts. Elife. 2021 10 08; 10. PMID: 34622778.
Published on 9/2/2020Kizhedathu A, Kunnappallil RS, Bagul AV, Verma P, Guha A. Multiple Wnts act synergistically to induce Chk1/Grapes expression and mediate G2 arrest in Drosophila tracheoblasts. Elife. 2020 09 02; 9. PMID: 32876044.
Published on 4/16/2018Kizhedathu A, Bagul AV, Guha A. Negative regulation of G2-M by ATR (mei-41)/Chk1(Grapes) facilitates tracheoblast growth and tracheal hypertrophy in Drosophila. Elife. 2018 04 16; 7. PMID: 29658881.
Published on 4/11/2017Guha A, Deshpande A, Jain A, Sebastiani P, Cardoso WV. Uroplakin 3a+ Cells Are a Distinctive Population of Epithelial Progenitors that Contribute to Airway Maintenance and Post-injury Repair. Cell Rep. 2017 Apr 11; 19(2):246-254. PMID: 28402849.
Published on 10/22/2015Rao PR, Lin L, Huang H, Guha A, Roy S, Kornberg TB. Developmental compartments in the larval trachea of Drosophila. Elife. 2015 Oct 22; 4. PMID: 26491942.
Published on 7/16/2015Cai Y, Yoneda M, Tomita T, Kurotani R, Okamoto M, Kido T, Abe H, Mitzner W, Guha A, Kimura S. Transgenically-expressed secretoglobin 3A2 accelerates resolution of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice. BMC Pulm Med. 2015 Jul 16; 15:72. PMID: 26178733.
Published on 2/21/2014Guha A, Vasconcelos M, Zhao R, Gower AC, Rajagopal J, Cardoso WV. Analysis of Notch signaling-dependent gene expression in developing airways reveals diversity of Clara cells. PLoS One. 2014; 9(2):e88848. PMID: 24586412.