1. Jurivich D, Manocha G, Trivedi R, Lizakowski M, Rakoczy S, Brown-Borg, H, Multi-factorial attenuation of the murine heat shock response with age, Journal of Gerontology, 2019
2. Manocha GD, Floden AM, Miller NM, Smith AJ, Nagamoto-Combs K, Saito T, Saido TC, Combs CK, Temporal Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease in Brains and Intestines of Transgenic Mice, Neurobiology of Aging, 2019, in press
3. Kulas JA, Franklin W, Smith NA, Manocha GD, Puig KL, Nagamoto-Combs K, Hendrix RD, Taglialatela G, Barger SW, Combs CK, Ablation of Amyloid Precursor Protein Increases Insulin Degrading Enzyme Levels and Activity in Brain and Peripheral Tissues, Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Nov 13. doi: 10.1152/ajpendo.00279.2018
4. Gunjan Manocha, Atreyi Ghatak, Kendra Puig, Colin Combs, Anti-α4β1 integrin antibodiesattenuated brain inflammatory changes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, , Current Alzheimer’s Research, July 2018
5. Joshua Kulas, Jodan Hettwer, Mona Sohrabi, Justin Melvin, Gunjan Manocha, Kendra Puig, Matthew Gorr, Vineeta Tanwar, Michael McDonald, Loren Wold, Colin Combs, In utero exposure to fine particulate matter results in an altered neuroimmune phenotype in adult mice, , Environmental Pollution, in press 2018
6. Gunjan D. Manocha, Atreyi Ghatak, Kendra L. Puig, Susan D. Kraner, Christopher M. Norris and Colin K. Combs, NFATc2 Modulates Microglial Activation in the AβPP/PS1 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2017, 58, 775
7. Gunjan Dhawan Manocha, Angela Marie Floden, Kendra Lynn Puig, Kumi Nagamoto-Combs, Clemens R. Scherzer and Colin Kelly Combs, Defining the contribution of neuroinflammation to Parkinson’s disease in humanized immune system mice, Molecular Neurodegeneration, 2017, 12, 17
8. Gunjan D. Manocha, Angela M. Floden, Keiko Rausch, Joshua A Kulas, Brett A McGregor, Lalida Rojanathammanee, Kelley R. Puig, Kendra L. Puig, Sanjib Karki, Michael R. Nichols, Diane C. Darland, James E. Porter, Colin K. Combs, APP regulates microglial phenotype in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, J. Neuroscience, 2016, 36, 8471
9. Nagamoto-Combs K, Manocha GD, Puig K, Combs CK, An improved approach to align and embed multiple brain samples in a gelatin-based matrix for simultaneous histological processing, J Neurosci Methods, 2016, 261, 155
10. Manocha GD, Puig KL, Austin SA, Seyb K, Glicksman MA, Combs CK, Characterization of novel Src family of kinase inhibitors to attenuate microgliosis, Plos One 2015, 10, 10
11. Puig KL, Lutz BM, Urquhart SA, Rebel AA, Zhou X, Manocha GD, Sens M, Tuteja AK, Forster NL, Combs CK, Overexpression of Mutant Amyloid-β Protein Precursor and Presenilin 1 Modulates Enteric Nervous System, J Alzheimer’s Dis, 2015, 44(4), 1263
12. Rojanathammanee L, Floden A, Manocha GD, Combs CK, Attenuation of microglial activation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease via NFAT inhibition, J Neuroinflammation, 2015, 12(1), 42
13. KL, Manocha GD, Combs CK, Amyloid Precursor Protein Mediated Changes in Intestinal Epithelial Phenotype in Vitro, Plos One, 2015, 10(3)
14. Manocha GD, Mishra R, Sharma N, Kumawat KL, Basu A, Singh SK, Regulatory role of TRIM21 in the type-I interferon pathway in Japanese encephalitis virus-infected human microglial cells, J Neuroinflammation, 2014, 11, 24
15. Dhawan G and Combs CK, Inhibition of Src kinase activity attenuates amyloid associated microgliosis in a murine model of Alzheimer’s disease, J Neuroinflammation, 2012, 9(1), 117
16. Dhawan G, Floden A, Combs CK, Amyloid beta oligomers stimulate microglia through a tyrosine kinase dependant mechanism, Neurobiology of Aging, 2011, 33, 2247
17. Sondag CM, Dhawan G, Combs CK, Beta amyloid oligomers and fibrils stimulate differential activation of primary microglia, J Neuroinflammation. 2009, 6, 1
18. Dhawan G, Sumana G, Malhotra BD, Recent developments in urea biosensors, Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2009, 44, 42

• 2010 - 2012 ND EPSCoR Doctoral Dissertation Assistantship (DDA)
• 2011 “Young Investigator’s Educational Enhancement” Travel Award by American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN).
• 2010 Summer Doctoral Fellowship by UND Graduate School.
• 2010 A. Roger Denison Award for oral presentation, Role of oligomer Aβ in tyrosine-kinase dependent stimulation of microglia in-vivo, at the North Dakota Academy of Sciences Meeting, Minot, ND.
• 2006 CSIR-UGC (NET) (India) Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Lectureship (LS) in Chemical Sciences.

2007-2011       Ph.D                                      Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Therapeutics, UND

2004-2006       Masters of Science                  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India

                       (M.Sc) Chemistry                               

 2001-2004      Bachelors of Science                 Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

                       (B.Sc) Chemistry (Honors)

2014-2018 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota

2013-2014 Research Associate, Laboratory of Neuroinflammation and Neurovirulogy, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India                 

2007-2011 Graduate Research Assistant, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, ND