Dr. Neeraja Sankaran

Associate Professor
Ashoka University, India

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in History of Science and Medicine from Yale University, USA

My URL
https://livedna.org/91.17913

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Area of Interest:

Molecular Sciences
Microbiology
Histology
Biotechnology
Immunology

Selected Publications

  1. Weiss, R.A. and N. Sankaran, 2022. Emergence of epidemic diseases: zoonoses and other origins. Fac. Rev., Vol. 11. 10.12703/r/11-2.
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  2. Sankaran, N. and R.A. Weiss, 2021. Viruses: Impact on Science and Society. In: Encyclopedia of Virology, Bamford, D.H. and M. Zuckerman (Eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, ISBN: 978-0-12-814516-6, pp: 671-680.
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  3. Sankaran, N., 2020. Introduction: Diversifying the historiography of bacteriophages. Notes Rec., 74: 533-538.
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  4. Kostyrka, G. and N. Sankaran, 2020. From obstacle to lynchpin: The evolution of the role of bacteriophage lysogeny in defining and understanding viruses. Notes Rec., 74: 599-623.
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  5. van Helvoort, T. and N. Sankaran, 2019. How seeing became knowing: The role of the electron microscope in shaping the modern definition of viruses. J. Hist. Biol., 52: 125-160.
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  6. Anderson, W. and N. Sankaran, 2019. Historiography and Immunology. In: Handbook of the Historiography of Biology, Dietrich, M., M. Borrello and O. Harman (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, ISBN: 978-3-319-74456-8, pp: 1-17.
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  7. Sankaran, N., 2018. On the historical significance of Beijerinck and his contagium vivum fluidum for modern virology. Hist. Philos. Life Sci., Vol. 40. 10.1007/s40656-018-0206-1.
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  8. Sankaran, N., 2018. Alfred I. Tauber, Immunity: the Evolution of an Idea, Oxford University Press, 2017, xx + 303 pp., $72.21. Hist. Philos. Life Sci., Vol. 40. 10.1007/s40656-018-0201-6.
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  9. Sankaran, N., 2017. Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt , Heredity explored: Between public domain and experimental science, 1850-1930. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 472. ISBN: 978-0-262-03443-2. £36.00 (cloth). Br. J. Hist. Sci., 50: 360-362.
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  10. Sankaran, N., 2016. The RNA world at thirty: A look back with its author. J. Mol. Evol., 83: 169-175.
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  11. Sankaran, N., 2016. Stage-hands, make-up artists and other backstage characters in the drama of science. History Philos. Life Sci., Vol. 38, No. 4. 10.1007/s40656-016-0120-3.
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  12. Sankaran, N., 2016. Anthony R. Rees. The antibody molecule: From antitoxins to therapeutic antibodies. (Oxford Medical Histories.) xvi + 364 pp., figs., illus., tables, index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £44.99 (cloth). Isis, 107: 889-890.
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  13. Sankaran, N. and T. van Helvoort, 2016. Andrewes's Christmas fairy tale: Atypical thinking about cancer aetiology in 1935. Notes Rec. R. Soc. London, 70: 175-201.
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  14. Sankaran, N., 2015. Far from depleted…. Br. J. History Sci., 48: 171-174.
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  15. Sankaran, N., 2014. When viruses were not in style: Parallels in the histories of chicken sarcoma viruses and bacteriophages. Stud. History Philos. Sci. Part C: Stud. History Philos. Biol. Biomed. Sci., 48: 189-199.
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  16. Sankaran, N., 2014. Scientific biography: Still fertile soil for cycling history? Stud. History Biol., 6: 104-110.

  17. Sankaran, N., 2013. Setting patterns: The atypical choices that shaped the career of Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet in twentieth-century Australia. Korean J. History Sci., 35: 343-364.
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  18. Sankaran, N., 2013. Breaking with the self: Can continuity in immunology succeed? Stud. History Philos. Sci. Part C: Stud. History Philos. Biol. Biomed. Sci., 44: 242-246.
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  19. Sankaran, N., 2012. How the discovery of ribozymes cast RNA in the roles of both chicken and egg in origin-of-life theories. Stud. History Philos. Sci. Part C: Stud. History Philos. Biol. Biomed. Sci., 43: 741-750.
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  20. Sankaran, N., 2010. The bacteriophage, its role in immunology: How Macfarlane Burnet’s phage research shaped his scientific style. Stud. History Philos. Sci. Part C: Stud. History Philos. Biol. Biomed. Sci., 41: 367-375.
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  21. Sankaran, N., 2010. Mutant bacteriophages, Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the changing nature of “Genespeak” in the 1930s. J. History Biol., 43: 571-599.
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  22. Sankaran, N., 2008. Stepping-stones to one-step growth: Frank Macfarlane Burnet's role in elucidating the viral nature of the bacteriophages. Historical Rec. Aust. Sci., 19: 83-100.
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