RNA-Based Regulation in Human Health and Disease

In earning his PhD, Dr. Rajesh Pandey used a combination of functional genomics and computational tools to elucidate the role of noncoding RNA during stress response. This convinced him of the potential of the RNA regulatory repertoire and its role in shaping human evolution, health, disease states, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics. Subsequently, he has employed diverse genomic toolkits to understand and explore RNA-level regulation at different hierarchies, encompassing human, mouse, plant, fungi, bacteria genomics, and metagenomics. In addition to his research work, Dr. Pandey has been a tutor at many workshops on applications of NGS technologies, and has published peer reviewed papers in such journals as Genome Biology; Genome Biology and Evolution; Nucleic Acids Research; Journal of Cell Science; PLOS Genetics; Frontiers in Microbiology; Scientific Reports; Molecular Cell; and Clinical Genetics. His future interest lies in investigating the role of noncoding RNA in modulating human phenotypic variation and its impact on health and disease spectrum.

1. Introduction
2. Non-coding RNAs: ever-expanding diversity of types and functions
3. Functional categories of RNA regulation
4. The dynamic aspects of RNA regulation
5. RNA beyond humans
6. Extracellular RNA in human health and disease
7. RNA and malaria pathogenesis
8. RNA and metabolic disorders
9. RNA toxicity in tandem nucleotide repeats mediated neurodegenerative disorders
10. Regulation by non-coding RNAs in respiratory disorders
11. RNA in cancer
12. RNA and inflammatory autoimmune diseases
13. RNA and bacterial infection
14. RNA and stress
15. RNA and aging
16. Experimental toolkit to study RNA level regulation
17. Industry perspective
18. Summary and future perspectives