Education

(2022-Present) B.S. in Computational and Systems Biology
University of California Los Angeles

Research Experience

(2022-2025) Dry Lab Collaborator
Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub
Laboratory of Dr. Langelier

(2020-2021) Summer Student
University of California, San Fransisco
Laboratory of Dr. Wilson

Research Interests

I am passionate about all things data and immunology. My research interests include genetics, computational approaches to understanding the impact of disease on expression profiles, and statistical modeling.

Publications

Narendra R, Lydon EC, Van Phan H, Spottiswoode N, Neyton LP, Diray-Arce J; IMPACC Network; COMET Consortium; EARLI Consortium; Becker PM, Kim-Schulze S, Hoch A, Pickering H, van Zalm P, Cairns CB, Altman MC, Augustine AD, Bosinger S, Eckalbar W, Guan L, Jayavelu ND, Kleinstein SH, Krammer F, Maecker HT, Ozonoff A, Peters B, Rouphael N, Montgomery RR, Reed E, Schaenman J, Steen H, Levy O, Carillo SA, Erle D, Hendrickson CM, Krummel MF, Matthay MA, Woodruff P, Haddad EK, Calfee CS, Langelier CR. Minimalistic Transcriptomic Signatures Permit Accurate Early Prediction of COVID-19 Mortality. JCI Insight. 2025 Nov 10;10(21):e195436. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.195436.

Narendra R, Van Phan H, Patterson SL, Almonte-Loya A, Lydon EC, Lanata C, Love C, Park J, Shimoda M, Barcellos L, Mekonen H, Detweiler A, Deosthale P, Neff N, Criswell LA, Maliskova L, Eckalbar W, Fragiadakis GK, Yazdany J, Dall’Era M, Katz P, Ye CJ, Sirota M, Langelier CR. Epigenetic attenuation of interferon signaling is associated with aging-related improvements in systemic lupus erythematosus. Science Translational Medicine. 2025 Jun 25;17(804):eadt5550. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adt5550.

Spottiswoode N, Neyton LP, Mick E, Kalantar KL, Hao S, Lydon EC, Narendra R, Serpa PH, Caldera S, Gomez A, Hendrickson C, Kangelaris K, Liu KD, Sinha P, DeRisi JL, Matthay MA, Calfee CS, Langelier CR. Host-Microbe Multiomic Profiling Predicts Mortality in Sepsis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Aug 11. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202410-1996OC. PMID: 40788839. 

Ramachandran PS, Ramesh A, Creswell FV, Wapniarski A, Narendra R, et al. Integrating central nervous system metagenomics and host response for diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitis and its mimics. Nature Communications 13, 1675 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29353-x

Personal Interests

I love sports, running, hiking, and being active. In my free time, I read, listen to podcasts, and playing chess (i’m bad). I’m not a good cook but I would really like to become one.