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Rachana Deven Somaiya

Virginia TechORCID 0000-0002-1190-1192Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:mouse· 4 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:scRNA-seq· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Cholinergic waves have a modest influence on the transcriptome of retinal ganglion cells

Rachana Deven Somaiya, Matthew A. Po, Marla B. Feller, Karthik Shekhar

The paper uses single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze the transcriptomic impact of disrupted cholinergic retinal waves in RGCs, finding modest type-specific gene expression changes.

Journal of Neuroscience · Jul 22, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Retinal input is required for the maintenance of neuronal laminae in the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus

Katelyn Stebbins, Rachana Deven Somaiya, Ubadah Sabbagh, Parsa Khaksar, Yanping Liang, Jianmin Su, Michael A. Fox

The paper shows that retinal inputs are necessary for maintaining laminar organization in the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus (vLGN) but not for its initial formation.

eNeuro · Aug 19, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Sonic hedgehog-dependent recruitment of GABAergic interneurons into the developing visual thalamus

Rachana Deven Somaiya, Katelyn Stebbins, Ellen C. Gingrich, Hehuang Xie, John N. Campbell, A. Denise R. Garcia, Michael A. Fox

The paper identifies SHH signaling from retinal ganglion cells to thalamic astrocytes as essential for GABAergic interneuron migration into the visual thalamus.

eLife · Oct 11, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Diverse GABAergic neurons organize into subtype-specific sublaminae in the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus

Ubadah Sabbagh, Gubbi Govindaiah, Rachana Deven Somaiya, Ryan V. Ha, Jessica Wei, William Guido, Michael A. Fox

The paper identifies subtype-specific sublaminae in the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus (vLGN) that receive retinal input and are composed of distinct GABAergic neurons.

Journal of Neurochemistry · Jun 4, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience