astronomy

Raghuveer Parthasarathy

Raghuveer Parthasarathy is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Raghuveer Parthasarathy rather than just read about it. In short: Raghuveer Parthasarathy (born 1976) is an American biophysicist, and an Alec and Kay Keith Professor of Physics on the faculty of the University of Oregon. Early life and education Born in 1976 in Mysore, India, Parthasarathy is the son of Sampath and Kalyani (née Rangaswamy) Parthasarathy.

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Reference excerpt

Raghuveer Parthasarathy (born 1976) is an American biophysicist, and an Alec and Kay Keith Professor of Physics on the faculty of the University of Oregon.

Early life and education Born in 1976 in Mysore, India, Parthasarathy is the son of Sampath and Kalyani (née Rangaswamy) Parthasarathy. He became a U.S.citizen at age twelve in 1988 in San Diego, California. Parthasarathy earned an A.B. in physics in 1997 from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. physics in 2002 from the University of Chicago, with the dissertation, Electronic transport in arrays of gold nanocrystals, advised by Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Heinrich M. Jaeger.

Career Following a four year post-doc as a Miller Research Fellow at Berkeley, Parthasarathy joined the physic faculty at the University of Oregon in 2006. As a member of both the Institute of Molecular Biology and the Materials Science Institute, he researches topics of "biophysics, microbial communities, host-microbe interactions, and advanced microscopy techniques". Since 2016, Parthasarathy has served as co-director of the University of Oregon Science Literacy Program. Parthasarathy was named Alec and Kay Keith Professor in 2016, and promoted to full professor in 2017.

Selected publications

Books Parthasarathy, Raghuveer (February 8, 2022). So Simple a Beginning. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20040-8.

Articles Scheibel, Thomas; Parthasarathy, Raghuveer; Sawicki, George; Lin, Xiao-Min; Jaeger, Heinrich; Lindquist, Susan L. (April 15, 2003). "Conducting nanowires built by controlled self-assembly of amyloid fibers and selective metal deposition". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (8): 4527–4532. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.4527S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0431081100. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 153589. PMID 12672964. Parthasarathy, Raghuveer (June 10, 2012). "Rapid, accurate particle tracking by calculation of radial symmetry centers". Nature Methods. 9 (7): 724–726. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2071. ISSN 1548-7105. PMID 22688415. S2CID 16320629. Parthasarathy, Raghuveer; Lin, Xiao-Min; Jaeger, Heinrich M. (October 16, 2001). "Electronic Transport in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays: The Effect of Structural Disorder on Scaling Behavior". Physical Review Letters. 87 (18) 186807. arXiv:cond-mat/0102446. Bibcode:2001PhRvL..87r6807P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.186807. S2CID 34222150. Parthasarathy, Raghuveer; Lin, Xiao-Min; Jaeger, Heinrich M. (October 16, 2001). "Electronic Transport in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays: The Effect of Structural Disorder on Scaling Behavior". Physical Review Letters. 87 (18) 186807. arXiv:cond-mat/0102446. Bibcode:2001PhRvL..87r6807P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.186807. S2CID 34222150. Parthasarathy, Raghuveer; Yu, Cheng-han; Groves, Jay T. (May 1, 2006). "Curvature-Modulated Phase Separation in Lipid Bilayer Membranes". Langmuir. 22 (11): 5095–5099. doi:10.1021/la060390o. ISSN 0743-7463. PMID 16700599. Hammers, Matthew D.; Taormina, Michael J.; Cerda, Matthew M.; Montoya, Leticia A.; Seidenkranz, Daniel T.; Parthasarathy, Raghuveer; Pluth, Michael D. (August 19, 2015). "A Bright Fluorescent Probe for H 2 S Enables Analyte-Responsive, 3D Imaging in Live Zebrafish Using Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (32): 10216–10223. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b04196. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 4543995. PMID 26061541. Wiles, Travis J.; Jemielita, Matthew; Baker, Ryan P.; Schlomann, Brandon H.; Logan, Savannah L.; Ganz, Julia; Melancon, Ellie; Eisen, Judith S.; Guillemin, Karen; Parthasarathy, Raghuveer (July 26, 2016). "Host Gut Motility Promotes Competitive Exclusion within a Model Intestinal Microbiota". PLOS Biology. 14 (7) e1002517. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002517. ISSN 1545-7885. PMC 4961409. PMID 27458727. Logan, Savannah L.; Thomas, Jacob; Yan, Jinyuan; Baker, Ryan P.; Shields, Drew S.; Xavier, Joao B.; Hammer, Brian K.; Parthasarathy, Raghuveer (April 17, 2018). "The Vibrio cholerae type VI secretion system can modulate host intestinal mechanics to displace gut bacterial symbionts". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (16): E3779–E3787. Bibcode:2018PNAS..115E3779L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1720133115. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5910850. PMID 29610339. Groves, Jay T.; Parthasarathy, Raghuveer; Forstner, Martin B. (August 1, 2008). "Fluorescence Imaging of Membrane Dynamics". Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering. 10 (1): 311–338. doi:10.1146/annurev.bioeng.10.061807.160431. ISSN 1523-9829. PMID 18429702. Rolig, Annah S.; Parthasarathy, Raghuveer; Burns, Adam R.; Bohannan, Brendan J. M.; Guillemin, Karen (November 11, 2015). "Individual Members of the Microbiota Disproportionately Modulate Host Innate Immune Responses". Cell Host & Microbe. 18 (5): 613–620. doi:10.1016/j.chom.2015.10.009. ISSN 1931-3128. PMC 4701053. PMID 26567512. Parthasarathy, Raghuveer; Lin, Xiao-Min; Elteto, Klara; Rosenbaum, T. F.; Jaeger, Heinrich M. (February 18, 2004). "Percolating through Networks of Random Thresholds: Finite Temperature Electron Tunneling in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays". Physical Review Letters. 92 (7) 076801. arXiv:cond-mat/0302348. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..92g6801P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.076801. PMID 14995875. S2CID 5757241.

Awards, honors In 2020, Parthasarathy was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, cited For creative and innovative contributions to biological physics especially to our understanding of the gut microbiome and lipid bilayers. 2020 Williams Fellow 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, NSF's Biomaterials Program, providing $475,000 over the five years. 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

References

External links Simulating Images of Point Sources on YouTube (video, 10:48 minutes) Biophysical consequences of sublethal antibiotics on gut bacterial persistence on YouTube (video, 11:36 minutes) Raghuveer Parthasarathy: The Four Physical Principles — #11 on YouTube (video, 1:20:52 hours) Biophysics W/ Raghuveer Parthasarathy - Audacy ("Talk Nerdy" Podcast, 1:23 hours)

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Raghuveer Parthasarathy

In research: Raghuveer Parthasarathy appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Raghuveer Parthasarathy in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Raghuveer Parthasarathy is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1976 births, American academics of Indian descent, American biophysicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Raghuveer Parthasarathy outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Raghuveer Parthasarathy (born 1976) is an American biophysicist, and an Alec and Kay Keith Professor of Physics on the faculty of the University of Oregon. Early life and education Born in 1976 in Mysore, India, Parthasarathy is the son of Sampath and Kalyani (née Rangaswamy) Parthasarathy.

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