Adjunct Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UC Davis Center for Neuroscience
1544 Newton Ct.
Davis, CA 95616
Office phone:  (530) 754-8974
E-mail:  pvchoudary@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Choudary's major research interest is regulation of disease gene expression.  His current research, conducted in close collaboration with fellow members of the Conte Center and Pritzker Consortium, is headed by Dr. Edward Jones and focuses on identifying genes showing abnormal patterns of expression in postmortem brains of neuropsychiatric patients.  Genome-wide approaches including microarray, differential display, and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping technologies are some of the contemporary biomedical research tools used in this work.  The goals of this interdisciplinary and multi-investigator effort are to advance our understanding of the molecular basis of psychiatric diseases and to discover biomarkers and/or novel drug-targets for one or more of the behavioral disorders under study, i.e., mood disorders and schizophrenia.