Pallavi Limaye

Assistant Professor In-Residence, Hartford

Molecular and Cell Biology

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Education: PhD in Life Sciences. Thesis entitled “Oxidative stress and Non-enzymatic Glycation in Experimental Diabetes”. MS in Life Sciences and Data Science.

Research Interests: Application of machine learning and natural language processing to answer biological questions and gain insight into biological systems. As an assistant professor-in-residence at UConn, I am interested in developing curriculum on topics such as: genetics and genomics, cell biology, neuroimmunology and biomedical science.

Awards: 2024 UConn Hartford Teaching & Learning Equity Faculty Leadership Fellowship

Presentations:

Limaye PV, Rivera A, Stewart S. Teaching Spaces as Environments for change. Teaching Spaces as Environments for Change [Workshop presentation]. Equity in Action, co-hosted by CETL, UConn Hartford, the HHMI Grant, and the Vergnano Institute for Inclusion, Hartford, CT, USA. October 6, 2023.

Limaye PV, Enhancing student success in introductory STEM courses: A three-fold strategy. [Conference presentation] 2024 Conference on Transforming STEM Higher Education, American Association of Colleges and Universities, November 8, 2024.

Outreach Activities:

Limaye PV, Stewart S, Liera R, Norton R. (Guests). (27, September 2024). “Centering Equity-Mindedness in Antiracist Teaching (part 1),” HEART Podcast, Produced and Co-Hosted by Milagros Castillo-Montoya and Omar Romandia. LINK 

Limaye PV, Stewart S, Liera R, Norton R. (Guests). (8 November 2024). “Centering Equity-Mindedness in Antiracist Teaching (part 2)”, HEART Podcast, Produced and Co-Hosted by Milagros Castillo-Montoya and Omar Romandia. LINK

GitHub page:

https://github.com/limayeP/

Recent Publications:

D.M. Konovic, P.V. Limaye, L.C.H. Colburn, M.B. Singh, M.M. Milosevic, J. Tadic, M. Petronijevic, S. Vrzic-Petronijevic, P.R. Andjus and S.D. Antic 2020 Cadmium versus Lanthanum Effects on Spontaneous Electrical Activity and Expression of Connexin Isoforms Cx26, Cx36 and Cx45 in the Human Fetal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 30(3), 1244–1259

P.V. Limaye, M.L. McGovern, M.B. Singh, K.D. Oikonomou, G.S. Belinsky & S.D. Antic 2016 The temporal dynamics of spontaneous Ca 2+ transients, ERBB4, VGLUT1, GAD1, connexin and pannexin genes in early stages of human neurodifferentiation. Pluripotent Stem Cells, Ed. Tomizawa, M., Intech.

G. Reinchisi, P.V. Limaye, M.B. Singh, S.D. Antic & N. Zecevic 2013 Neurogenic potential of hESC-derived Human Radial Glia is amplified by Human Fetal Cells. Stem Cell Research, 11(1), 587–600.