Vinothini Arunagiri

Hardworking Postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated record of research success in. Self-directed and motivated professional with highly-ethical, meticulous and thorough approach.

• Biomedical Skills: Drug delivery, photothermal therapy, hemostasis, wound healing, Cellular uptake of biopolymers, molecular mechanism of lung cancer, senescence, and viral infection (SARS-2-COVID, Flu). My research area of interest is to perform research on Molecular biology and Immunology based Lung Inflammatory disease/Lung cancer/any other cancer study.
• Materials Preparation skills: Synthesis of Biopolymer and inorganic materials in the form of porous structure (like membrane), microparticles, hydrogel and nanoform like core shell, nanocomposite & nanoparticles.
• In Vitro & In Vivo Skills: Antibacterial studies like e-coli culture colony method, Cellular studies like culturing cells, in vitro cellular uptake & drug delivery, cell migration, Cell sorting, flow cytometry, Western Blot, Protein and mRNA extraction & isolation, SiRNA transfection, Lentiviral transduction, Immunofluorescence. In vivo mice handling (Tail cutting, Femoral artery dissection, wound creation, Lung harvest and BALF collection), RT PCR, Genotyping.
• Instrument Skills: UV-vis, DLS, XRD, FTIR, NMR, TGA, FE-SEM/EDX, GPC, TOC, Water contact angle analysis, water purification analyzer, Raman spectroscopy, AFM, flow cytometry etc.
• Computer Skills: MS word, Typewriting, short-hand, MS Excel, 3D designs in Power point, Origin version, 3D Chem Draw, and Mest ReNova, Flow jo software handling, IPA analysis

• Father's Name: Arunagiri Subburayan
• Mother's Name: Saraswathi Arunagiri
• Date of Birth: 02/08/94
• Gender: Female
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Unmarried (Single)

• Taiwan Tech full scholarship 2018-2021.
• Master outstanding performance scholarship, 2016,2018.

• Loss of Miz1 Locks Senescence by Engaging both NF-B-SASP and Cell-cycle Arrest pathways, Vinothini Arunagiri, Cong Chen, Kushi H Gopani, Riddhi Deshpande, Sujan Vahora & Jing Liu
• Manuscript in Progress
• Suppression of Interferon α and γ response by Huwe1- Mediated Miz1 Degradation promotes SARS-CoV-2-Replication, Vinothini Arunagiri†, Laura Cooper†, Huali Dong, Jake Class, Indrani Biswas, Sujan Vahora, Riddhi Deshpande, Kushi H Gopani, Guachnag Hu, Justin Richner, Lijun Rong
• Jing Liu
• Frontiers in Immunology, 2024, 7.3, https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1388517
• Miz1 Represses Type-I Expression and limits viral clearance during Influenza A Virus Infection, Wenjio Wu†, Vinothini Arunagiri†, Hanh Chi Do Umerhara, Cong Chen, Shuyin Gu, Karen M.Ridge, G.R. Scott Budinger, shuwen Liu
• Science signaling, 2024, 10.1126/scisignal.adg78, 9.714
• Digoxin modified redox-responsive multi-functional micelles for tragetting cancer cells and synergistic chemotherapy, Haile Fentahun Darge; Kefyalew Dagnew Addisu; Yihenew Simegniew Birhan; Endris Yibru Hanurry; Tefera Worku Mekonnen, Hailemichael Tegenu Gebrie, Vinothini Arunagiri, Darieo Thankachan, Tsung-Yun Wu, Juin-Yih Lai, Hao-Ming Chang, Chun-Chiang Huang, SzuYuan Wu, Acs Omega, 2024, Accepted, 3.512
• Miz1 Promotes KRAS-driven lung tumoreigenesis by repressin the potocadherin Pcdh10, Jing Yang, Changchun Hou, Huashan Wan, Edith A.Perez, Hanh Chi Do-Umehara, Hauli Dong, Vinothini Aruagiri, Fangjia Tong, Michelle Van Scoyk, Minsu Cho, Xinyi Liu, Xiaodong Ge, Robert A.Win, Karen M.Ridge, Xiowei Wang, Navdeep S. Chandel, Jing Liu
• Cancer Letter, 2023, 10.1016/j.canlet.2022.216025, 9.756
• PAMAM Dendritic Nanoparticle-Incorporated Hydrogel to enhance the Imuunogenic Cell Death and Immune response of Imuunochemotherapy, Endris Yibru Hanurry, Yihenew Simegniew Birhan, Haile Fentahun Darge, Tefera Worku Mekonnen, Vinothini Arunagiri, Hsiao-Ying Chou, Chih-Chia Cheng
• Juin-Yih Lai, Hsieh-Chih Tsai
• ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2022, 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.2c00171, 5.395
• Facile fabrication of eco-friendly polycaprolactone (PCL)/Poly-D, L-Lactic acid (PDLLA) modified melamine sorbent for oilspill cleaning and water/ oil (W/O) emulsion separation, Vinothini Arunagiri, Adhimoorthy Prasannan
• Jittrakorn Udomsin, Juin-Yih Lai, ChihFeng Wang, Po-Da Hong, Hsieh Chih Tsai
• Separation and Purification Technology, 2021, 10.1016/j.seppur.2020.118081, 9.136
• Enhanced Cellular Uptake in an Electrostatically Interacting Fucoidan-L-Arginine Fiber Complex, Vinothini Arunagiri, Hsieh-Chih Tsai
• Haile Fentahun Darge, Hung Wei Chiang, Darieo Thankachan, Chia-Jui Mei, Juin-Yih Lai, Polymers, 2021, 10.3390/polym13111795, 4.967
• Preparation of physically crosslinked polyelectrolyte Gelatin-Tannic acid-κ-Carrageenan (GTC) microparticles as hemostatic agents, Vinothini Arunagiri, Hsieh-Chih Tsai, Haile Fentahun Darge, Hung Wei Chiang, Darieo Thankachan, Chia-Jui Mei, Juin-Yih Lai, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2021, 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.09.008, 8.025
• Investigation of dual plasmonic core-shell Ag@CuS nanoparticles for potential surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy-guided photothermal therapy, Anindita Das, Vinothini Arunagiri, Hsieh-Chih Tsai
• Adhimoorthy Prasannan, Juin-Yih Lai, Po Da-Hong & Rakesh S.Moirangthem
• Nanomedicine (Lond.), 2021, 10.2217/nnm-2020-0385, 6.096
• Core-Multishell Au@Cu2-xS@Au Nanoparticles for surface enhanced Raman Scattering-guided Low-Intesity Photothermal Cancer Therapy, Anindita Das, Vinothini Arunagiri, Hsieh-Chih Tsai
• Adhimoorthy Prasannan & Rakesh S. Moiangthem
• Acs Appl. Nano Materials, 2021, 10.1021/acsanm.1c02586, 6.140
• Radioprotective effect of self-assembled low molecular weight Fucoidan-Chitosan nanoparticles, Szu-Yuan Wu
• (MD, PhD), Vijayarohini Parasuramane, Hsieh-Chih-Tsai
• Vinothini Arunagiri, Srithar Gunaseelan, Hsiao-Ying Chou, Rajeshkumar Anbazhagan, Juin-Yih Lai, Rajendra Prasad N., International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2020, 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.119161, 6.51
• Pluronic F127 self-assembled MoS2 nanocomposites as an effective glutathione responsive anticancer drug delivery system, Adhisankar Vadivelmurugan, Rajeshkumar Anbazhagan, Vinothini Arunagiri, JuinYih Lai and Hsieh-Chih Tsai
• RSC Adv., 2019, 10.1039/C9RA04249K, 4.036

• Dr. Jing Liu, PhD, Associate Professor (Post doc Advisor), Department of Surgery/Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine Research Building (COMRB) Suite 5139, 909 S. Wolcott Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60612, 312-355-0073, 312-996-1309, jinglius@uic.edu
• Dr. Hsieh-Chih Tsai, Professor, Chairman, Graduate Institute of Applied science and Technology, National Taiwa University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan-106, h.c.tsai@mail.ntust.edu.tw, 02-27303779, 02-27303733
• Dr. Sangeetha Balakrishnan, Independent Researcher in Literature and Science, balakrishnan.sangeetha@gmail.com, +91-9566141756
• Associate Professor. Dr. J. Margaret Marie, M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Women's Christian College, Chennai- 600 006, margaretmarie@wcc.edu.in, +91 9884826242

• International Membrane Conference in Taiwan (IMCT2019), Jun. 28-29,2019 Taipei, Taiwan.
• Chicago Area Virology Association (CAVA),2023 symposium, UIC
• Academic scientific writing skills, 2021
• Laboratory Safety Training, NTUST, Taiwan 2018
• Academic Research Ethics, NTUST, Taiwan 2018
• Trained in preparation of FDG and FDOPA drug for diagnosing cancer in cyclotron lab, Chennai, 2016
• Trained in making lantern lights, pleasant odor candles, floor cleaning liquids like phenol etc. in chemistry lab, 2016.
• Intensive academic writing training, UIC post doc, 2023