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Ryan Dikdan

Ryan Dikdan (He/him)

Medical School Year 4 MS4

Hometown

Saddle Brook, NJ

Undergraduate College

Boston College

Research Interests

Molecular diagnostics, bioinformatics

Publications

  • Yousaf I, Hannon WW, Donohue RC, Pfaller CK, Yadav K, Dikdan RJ, Tyagi S, Schroeder DC, Shieh WJ, Rota PA, Feder AF, Cattaneo R. Brain tropism acquisition: The spatial dynamics and evolution of a measles virus collective infectious unit that drove lethal subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. PLoS Pathog. 2023 Dec 21;19(12):e1011817. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011817. PMID: 38127684; PMCID: PMC10735034.
  • A Choudhary, D Calianese, W Honnen, A Kolloli, RJ Dikdan, D Jaijyan, ... Broad-Spectrum Heavily Mutated Monoclonal Antibody Isolated from COVID-19 Convalescent Vaccinee with Capacity to Neutralize SARS-CoV2 Variants Ranging from B. 1 to BQ. 1.1. bioRxiv, 2023.05. 04.539267
  • RJ Dikdan. DNA Probe Design Approaches to Generate New Assays for the Detection of Cancer Somatic Mutations and SARS-COV2 Variants. Rutgers University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 2023
  • D Goel, R Dikdan, S Tyagi. COD-FISH: Contrastive Oligonucleotide Design for Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization to Detect Single RNA Molecules with High Specificity. 2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC), 1-5
  • Bruiners N, Guerrini V, Ukey R, Dikdan RJ, Yang JH, Mishra PK, Onyuka A, Handler D, Vieth J, Carayannopoulos M, Guo S, Pollen M, Pinter A, Tyagi S, Feingold D, Philipp C, Libutti SK, Gennaro ML. Longitudinal Analysis of Biologic Correlates of COVID-19 Resolution: Case Report. Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Jun 15;9:915367. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.915367. PMID: 35783607; PMCID: PMC9240225.
  • C Levine, R Jadhav, Y Pan, K Tsotetsi, X Wang, D Awasthi, C Grady, RJ Dikdan...Development of amidase-dependent pyrazinoic acid prodrugs with activity against pyrazinamide resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. bioRxiv, 2022.07. 05.496887
  • Dikdan RJ, Marras SAE, Field AP, Brownlee A, Cironi A, Hill DA, Tyagi S. Multiplex PCR Assays for Identifying all Major Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variants. J Mol Diagn. 2022 Apr;24(4):309-319. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2022.01.004. Epub 2022 Feb 2. PMID: 35121139; PMCID: PMC8806714.
  • Fraser LCR, Dikdan RJ, Dey S, Singh A, Tyagi S. Reduction in gene expression noise by targeted increase in accessibility at gene loci. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Oct 19;118(42):e2018640118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2018640118. PMID: 34625470; PMCID: PMC8545487.
  • Peng B, Dikdan R, Hill SE, Patterson-Orazem AC, Lieberman RL, Fahrni CJ, Dickson RM. Optically Modulated and Optically Activated Delayed Fluorescent Proteins through Dark State Engineering. J Phys Chem B. 2021 May 27;125(20):5200-5209. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c00649. Epub 2021 May 12. PMID: 33978414; PMCID: PMC8767457.
  • CJ Fahrni, D Bourassa, R Dikdan. Probing biological trace metals with fluorescent indicators. Metals in the Brain: Measurement and Imaging, 71-107, 2017

Awards/Grants

  • NJ ACTS TL1 Fellowship, 2021

Hobbies

Cars, computers, and singing

Email: rjd254@njms.rutgers.edu