Purushottam Soni

Academic Degrees

  • PhD, IIT Bombay, 2018
  • MSc, University of Rajasthan, 2007
  • BSc, University of Rajasthan, 2005

Teaching Interests

  • Transport Phenomena
  • Thermodynamics
  • Biomicrofluidics

Research Interests

  • C. elegans aging and health Biomicrofluidics
  • Electrohydrodynamics
  • Polymer thin films

Publications & Presentations

  • Spaceflight Induces Strength Decline in Caenorhabditis elegans, Purushottam Soni, Hunter Edwards, Taslim Anupom, Mizanur Rahman, Leila Lesanpezeshki, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Henry Cope, Nima Gharahdaghi, Daniel Scott, Li Shean Toh, Philip M. Williams, Timothy Etheridge, Nathaniel Szewczyk, Craig R. G. Willis, and Siva A. Vanapalli, cells, 12, 2470, 2023.
  • Microfluidic Devices for Phenotyping Caenorhabditis elegans in Liquid Culture Vessels on the International Space, Bushra Rahman, Purushottam Soni, Siva Vanapalli, AICHE Annual Meeting, Orlando, USA, 2023
  • Microfluidic technologies for space-flight investigations on host gut-microbiome interactions in C. elegans, Bushra Rahman, Purushottam Soni, Siva Vanapalli, ASGSR2023, Washington DC, USA, 2023
  • CBIOMES Space Flight Project: Impact of the gut microbiome on the integrative physiology of genetically diverse Caenorhabditis elegans, Bushra Rahman, Purushottam Soni, Hunter Edwards, Atiyya Saroyia, Dana Blackburn, Girish Harinath, Monica Driscoll, Nathaniel Szewczyk, Buck Samuel, Siva Vanapalli, 24th International C. elegans Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 2023
  • Microfluidics-integrated space flight hardware for measuring muscle strength of C. elegans on the International Space Station, Purushottam Soni, Taslim Anupom, Leila Lesanpezeshki, Mizanur Rahman, Jennifer Hewitt, Matthew Vellone, Louis Stodieck, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Nathaniel Szewczyk, Siva A Vanapalli, npj microgravity, 8, 50, 2022.