A. Name and Title
Yogita Kanan, Ph.D.
Research Instructor
Dept. Cell Biology
B. Education
 1995-2001 Ph.D in Biochemistry. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
 2002-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow. Dept. Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.
 2008-2009 Research Instructor, Dept. Ophthalmology, University of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.
 2010-present Research Instructor. Dept. Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.
C.Honors
 1995-2001 Research Assistantship from Department of Biochemistry, Oklahoma State
University.
 2004-2005 Knights Templar Eye Foundation Award for Vision Research.
 2005 ARVO travel grant award (National Eye Institute).
 2006 Young Investigators Travel Award for RD2006 meeting at Buenos Aires (National
Eye Institute).
 2010-2012 Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology Health
Research Award (OCAST).
D. Paper Publications
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Sherry DM, Murray AR, Kanan Y, Arbogast KL, Fleisler SJ, Burns ME, Moore KL, AlUbaidi MR. lack of protein-tyrosine sulfation disrupts photoreceptor outer segment
morphogenesis, retinal function and retinalAnatomy. Eur J Neurosci 2010. 32:1461-1472.
Kanan Y, Matsumoto H, Song H, Sokolov M, Anderson RE, Rajala RV. Serine/threonine
kinase akt activationregulates the activity of retinal serine/threonine phosphatases,
PHLPP and PHLPPL. J. Neurochem. 2010. 13:477-488.
Kanan Y, Centola M, Bart M, Al-Ubaidi MR. Analysis of genes differentially expressed
during retinaldegeneration in three mouse models. Advances in Experimental Medicine
and Biology. 2010. 664. 3-13.
Kanan Y, Hoffhines A, Rauhauser A, Murray A, Al-Ubaidi MR. Protein tyrosine-Osulfation in the retina. Exp Eye Res. 2009. 89: 559-567.
Kanan Y, Wicker LD, Al-Ubaidi MR, Mandal NM, Kasus-Jacobi A. Retinol
Dehydrogenases RDH11 and RDH12 in the Mouse Retina: Expression Levels During
Development and Regulation by Oxidative Stress. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2008. 49:
1071-1078.
Kanan Y, Kasus-Jacobi A, Moiseyev G, Sawyer K, Ma JX, Al-Ubaidi MR. Retinoid
recycling in murine cone photoreceptors: an in vitro study. Exp Eye Research 2008. 86:
344-354.
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Kanan Y, Kasus-Jacobi, Sawyer K, Mannel D, Tombran-Tink J, Al-Ubaidi MR. An Invivo assay to identify compounds protective against light induced apoptosis. Advances in
Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2007. 613: 61-67.
Kanan Y, Moiseyev G, Agarwal N, Ma JX, Al-Ubaidi MR. Light induces death by
activating multiple independent proteases in a cone photoreceptor cell line. 2007. Invest
Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007. 48:40-51.
Fakhri FD, Jeong J, Kanan Y, Dittmer DP. The latency-associated nuclear antigen of
Kaposi sarcoma associated herpesvirus induces B cell hyperplasia and lymphoma. J. Clin
Invest. 2006. 116:735-742.
Staudt M, Kanan Y, Jeong J, Papin JF, Hines-Boykin R, Dittmer DP. The tumor
microenvironment controlsprimary effusion lymphoma growth in vivo. Cancer Res. 2004.
64:4790-4799.