Raghuveer Parthasarathy

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.

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.^[1]

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.^[2][3]

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,^[4] he researches topics of "biophysics, microbial communities, host-microbe interactions, and advanced microscopy techniques".^[5]

Since 2016, Parthasarathy has served as co-director of the University of Oregon Science Literacy Program.^[6]

Parthasarathy was named Alec and Kay Keith Professor in 2016, and promoted to full professor in 2017.^[2]

• Parthasarathy, Raghuveer (February 8, 2022). So Simple a Beginning. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691200408.

• 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.

• 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.^[7]
• 2020 Williams Fellow^[6]
• 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, NSF's Biomaterials Program, providing $475,000 over the five years.
• 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

• 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)