Ayushi Mandloi

Passionate researcher pursuing opportunities to deepen expertise in tumor immunology and metastatic biology, with a focus on dissecting immune mechanisms driving pancreatic cancer, liver metastasis, and identifying strategies to restore anti-tumor immunity.

• May 2020-July 2020 Interdisciplinary Approach for Precision Agriculture in India, CSIR NEIST – SRTP, Assisted literature survey team to study site-specific crop management in terms of pesticide and antibiotic use and resistance development.
• January 2020-March 2020 Molecular Dynamics of miRNA-mRNA Interaction to study their regulatory role in cancer, BITS Pilani, Simulated miRNA-mRNA duplex to study structural, functional, and spatio-temporal aspects in ovarian and breast cancers using Amber simulation software.
• May 2018-June 2018 Impact of Naphthalene Acetic Acid (NAA) on Physio-biochemical Attributes, Protein Profile and Gene Expression on Sugarcane, ICAR - IISR, Studied the effect of α-Naphthaleneacetic acid concentrations on sugarcane, including carbohydrate estimation, protein profiling, and stress marker expression.

• Oneal Comprehensive Cancer Center Travel Award, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2023
• Blazer Fellowship, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 08/22
• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (All-India Rank - 656), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 03/20

• Mandloi, A.†, Larson, C. R.†, Baines, J., Tran, T. M., Roy, S., Fang, Y.-H. D., Laube, R. P., Patel, M., Risley, C., Welner, R. S., Masood, A., Acharyya, S., & Carstens, J. L. (2026). Matched pancreatic cancer liver metastatic model system reveals cancer cell-dependent organotropism and site-specific tumor microenvironment reflective of human disease. Manuscript submitted for publication to bioRxiv. Preprint ID: BIORXIV/2026/728281.
• Larson CR, Mandloi A, Acharyya S and Carstens JL (2025) The tumor microenvironment across four dimensions: assessing space and time in cancer biology. Front. Immunol. 16:1554114. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1554114
• Saini, H., Dave, R., Chatterjee, S., Mandloi, A., Sharma, H., Daiya, A., Mukherjee, S., Chowdhury, R., & Chowdhury, S., 2023, Transcriptomic analysis reveals differential adaptation of colorectal cancer cells to low and acute doses of cisplatin., Gene, 864, 147304, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2023.147304
• Kushwaha, S., Mandloi, A., Chowdhury, S., 2022, Understanding the Binding Affinity and Specificity of miRNAs: A Molecular Dynamics Study., Advances in Computational Modeling and Simulation, Srinivas, R., Kumar, R., Dutta, M., Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer, Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7857-8_19
• Katakia, Y. T., Thakkar, N. P., Thakar, S., Sakhuja, A., Goyal, R., Sharma, H., Dave, R., Mandloi, A., Basu, S., Nigam, I., Kuncharam, B. V. R., Chowdhury, S., & Majumder, S., 2022, Dynamic alterations of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 at ADAM17 and Jagged-1 gene promoters cause an inflammatory switch of endothelial cells., Journal of cellular physiology, 237, 1, 992–1012, https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.30579

• International Webinar on “Multi-Omics Data Integration Using AI”, Lucknow, India, 2026, Deciphering Tumor-Immune Communication in Pancreatic Cancer Liver Metastasis Using Multi-Omic Approaches (Oral presentation)
• AACR-Pancreatic Cancer, Boston, MA, 2025, Dissecting the Tumor–Immune Landscape of PDAC Liver Metastases to Identify Candidate Drivers of Immune Evasion and Metastatic Outgrowth (Poster)
• The 11th Annual Southeastern Immunology Symposium, Birmingham, AL, 2024, Investigating the Role of Immunosuppressive B cells in PDAC Liver Metastasis (Poster)
• O'neal Cancer Center Annual Research Retreat, Birmingham, AL, 2024, Evaluating Pancreatic Cancer Metastatic Microenvironment using Single-cell Transcriptomics (Poster)
• Advanced course on Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 2023

• Dance (Indian classical)
• Cooking
• Gardening
• Reading