Conferences

1. Jackson James, Pius.S.Padayatti, Thomas Paul and C.S.Paulose, Platelet as a peripheral model to assess autonomic neuropathy in diabetic patients. XIII Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neuroscience's, C.M.C, Vellore, 1994.
2. Jackson James and Paulose, C.S. Hypoglycemic effect of Aegle marmelose and change in monoamines and brain acetylcholine esterase in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. National Symposium on Relevance of Biotechnology in Industry, Cochin 1995, p-44.
3. Jackson James and Paulose C.S., "Pancreatic Monoamine changes in young and one year old streptozotocin induced diabetic rats", Symposium on Molecular Markers of Aging, April 7-9, Gwalior 1997, p-2.
4. C.S. Paulose, Jackson James and Ani Das. V., Nuclear receptors for epinephrine and serotonin in pancreatic islets: A possible regulation of insulin secretion in streptozotocin diabetic rats. 10th annual meeting of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 8-10,1999 pp.44.
5. Jackson James, Wallac Thoreson, Iqbal Ahmad; Proliferation and differentiation potential of early and late retinal progenitors: 31st Annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, USA, November 10-15, 2001.
6. J.James, A.V. Das, I.Ahmad; Molecular characterization of early and late retinal stem cells/progenitors by microarray analysis: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002 43: E-Abstract 3686.
7. I.Ahmad, J.James, A.V. Das; Late retinal stem cells/progenitors can give rise to early born retinal neurons: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002 43: E-Abstract 3685.
8. A.V. Das, J.James, X.Zhao, W.B. Thoreson, I.Ahmad; Molecular characterization and differentiation potential of ciliary body-derived neural stem cells: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002 43: E-Abstract 3688.
9. T.E. Wattnem, A.V. Das, J.James, X.Zhao, I.Ahmad; ATH3: A bHLH protein involved in the specification of bipolar cells in the mammalian retina: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002 43: E-Abstract 2697.
10. D.M. Chacko, X.Zhao, A.V. Das, J.James, S.Bhattacharya, I.Ahmad; Injury promotes incorporation of transplanted neural stem cells/progenitors in the host retina: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida,USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002 43: E-Abstract 3895.
11. Iqbal Ahmad, Jackson James, Xing Zhao, Ani V. Das; Proliferation and differentiation potential of retinal stem cells/progenitors: in vitro and in vivo perspective: XV International congress of eye research, Geneva, Switzerland, October 6-10, 2002.
12. S.Edakkot, J.James, A.V. Das, W.B. Thoreson, I.Ahmad; Differentiation of Voltage- and Ligand-gated Currents in Early and Late Retinal Progenitors: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2003 44: E-Abstract 1669.
13. A.V. Das, J.James, X.Zhao, S.Bhattacharya, I.Ahmad; Involvement of C-Kit Receptor Tyrosine Kinase in the Maintenance of Ciliary Epithelial Neural Stem Cells: Interaction with Notch Signaling: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2003 44: E-Abstract 1670.
14. J.James, A.V. Das, J.Rahnenführer, F.A. Soto Leon, I.Ahmad; Identification of Rat Brahma (rBRM), a Subunit of SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complex: Involvement in the Differentiation of Retinal Stem Cells/Progenitors: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2003 44: E-Abstract 1671.
15. F.A. Soto Leon, D.M. Chacko, J.James, A.V. Das, X.Zhao, W.B. Thoreson, I.Ahmad; Lysophosphatidic Acid (LPA) Promotes Proliferation and Survival of Retinal Stem Cells/Progenitors: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2003 44: E-Abstract 1673.
16. X.Zhao, A.V. Das, S.Edakkot, J.James, S.Bhattacharya, F.A. Soto-Leon, I.Ahmad; In vivo Activation of Cell Proliferation in Postnatal Mammalian Retina and Ciliary Epithelium: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2003 44: E-Abstract 1683.
17. A.V. Das, J.James, X.Zhao, I.Ahmad; The role of c-kit signaling in the maintenance of neural stem cells in the adult eye: Interaction with Notch signaling: 1st Annual Meeting of International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), June 8-11, 2003, Washington DC, USA.
18. X.Zhao, A.V. Das, S.Edakkot, J.James, S.Bhattacharya, F.A. Soto-Leon, I.Ahmad; In vivo activation neural stem cells/progenitors in postnatal mammalian retina and ciliary epithelium. 33rd Annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 8-12, USA, 2003.
19. J.James; A.V.Das; J.Rahnenführer; F.A.Soto-Leon; I.Ahmad; The role of Brahma (rbrm), a subunit of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, in retinal ganglion cell differentiation: a possible interaction with notch1 signaling: 33rd Annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 8-12, USA, 2003.
20. A.V. Das, J.James, X.Zhao, I.Ahmad; c-Kit receptor plays an important role in the maintenance of the adult neural stem cells: interaction with notch signaling: : 33rd Annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 8-12, USA, 2003.
21. A.V. Das, J. James, D.N. Magana–Arachchi, X. Zhao, and I. Ahmad; Wnt signaling regulates ocular neural stem cells: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2004 45: E-Abstract 5396.
22. G.V. Hegde, J. James, A.V. Das, S. Bhattacharya, X. Zhao, and I. Ahmad; Characterization of extrinsic factor(s) that influences the differentiation of late retinal progenitors/stem cells: ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2004 45: E-Abstract 5412.
23. Sanalkumar RS, Indulekha CL and Jackson James; Effect of growth factors on neuron specific differentiation of embryonic stem cells: SETNS 2005 & XXIII Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neurosciences at NIMHANS, Bangalore Dec 11-14, 2005
24. Sanalkumar RS, Jagatha B, Indulekha CL, Shammey S, Vidyanand S, Divya MS, Ruby John Anto and Jackson James; A novel Notch independent activation of Hes-1 through JNK maintains ES cell derived neural progenitors: Model Organisms and Stem Cells in Development, Regeneration and Disease, NCBS, Bangalore February 23-25, 2008.
25. Indulekha CL, Sanalkumar RS, Jagatha B, Anu Sebin, Amitha George, Divya MS and Jackson James; Regulation of Tlx3 (HOX11L2) gene in neural progenitors: Role of Notch signaling: Model Organisms and Stem Cells in Development, Regeneration and Disease, NCBS, Bangalore February 23-25, 2008.
26. Jagatha B, Sanalkumar RS, Indulekha CL, Vidyanand S, Divya MS and Jackson James; FGF2 induces generation of retinal ganglion cells (RGC) from ES cells: Enhanced by Sonic hedgehog: Model Organisms and Stem Cells in Development, Regeneration and Disease, NCBS, Bangalore February 23-25, 2008.
27. Divya MS, Divya TS, Sanalkuma RS, Indulekha CL, John Francis, Vidyanand S, Vinod Kumar GS & Jackson James ; Development of a cell therapy strategy to treat glaucoma using retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) generated from embryonic stem (ES) cells, Young Investigators Meeting, Poovar, February 24th -28th, 2009
28. Notch signaling regulates the expression of Tlx3, a selector gene in excitatory over inhibitory neural fate determination. Indulekha CL, Sanalkumar RS, Divya MS, Abdul Rasheed VT and Jackson James. Presented on 6th international stem cell school in regenerative medicine, held at, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, June2009
29. A subset of neural progenitors is maintained by ATF-2 mediated non-canonical activation of Hes-1 expression. R. Sanalkumar, C. L. Indulekha, T. S. Divya, M. S. Divya, S. Vidyanand, R. J. Anto, J. James; 39th annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, 2009, USA.
30. Hes-1 acts as transcriptional repressor of Tlx3, a selector gene in excitatory over inhibitory neural fate determination. Indulekha CL, Sanalkumar RS, Divya MS, Abdul Raseed VT & Jackson James; 39th annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, 2009, USA.