I am interested in understanding neurovascular interactions in brainstem medulla and how it regulates brainstem blood flow.

• Trainee Professional Development Award - Society for Neuroscience (12/23/2020)

• Ph D in Physiology, Kansas State University (2013)
• MS in Biomedical Sciences, Kansas State University (2010)

• Chemoarchitectural studies of the rat hypothalamus and zona incerta. Chemopleth 1.0, a downloadable interactive Brain Maps spatial database of five co-visualizable neurochemical systems, with novel-feature- and grid-based mapping tools. BioRxiv [Preprint] (2024), Vanessa I. Navarro, Alexandro Arnal, Eduardo Peru, Sivasai Balivada, Alejandro R. Toccoli, Diana Sotelo, Olac Fuentes, Arshad Khan.
• Glycemic Challenge Is Associated with the Rapid Cellular Activation of the Locus Ceruleus and Nucleus of Solitary Tract: Circumscribed Spatial Analysis of Phosphorylated MAP Kinase Immunoreactivity Journal of Clinical Medicine 12 7 (2023), Geronimo P. Tapia, Lindsay J. Agostinelli, Sarah D. Chenausky , Jessica V. Salcido Padilla, Amy Alagh , Gabriel Si, Richard H. Thompson , Sivasai Balivada, Arshad Khan.
• Age-associated Downregulation of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Synapse-related Gene Expression in the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla of Male Rats FASEB JOURNAL 35 (2021), Sivasai Balivada, Hitesh Pawar, Geronimo Tapia, Arshad Khan, Michael Kenney.

• A resource to aid in viral-based targeting and interrogation of hypothalamic circuits in the rat: An interactive spatial database of five neurochemical systems in stereotaxic space. (2024), Volume Lewiston, Maine, Vanessa I. Navarro, Alexandro Arnal, Eduardo Peru, Sivasai Balivada, Alejandro R. Toccoli, Diana Sotelo, Olac Fuentes, Arshad Khan.
• Domestication Results in Physiologically Different Birds: Quantifying Muscle Fiber-Types of Wild, Game-Farm, and Hybrid Mallards (2024), Volume Portland, Oregon, NIcholas Enriquez, Arshad Khan, Sivasai Balivada, Philip Lavretsky.
• Hindbrain catecholaminergic and non-catecholaminergic neuronal populations rapidly recruited during glycemic challenge: A fluorescent cell-detecting deep learning model for high-throughput tabulation and atlas-based mapping (2022), Volume San Diego, CA, Geronimo P. Tapia, Alexandro Arnal, Sarah D. Chenausky, Jessica V. Salcido Padilla, Vanessa I. Navarro, Kenichiro Negishi, Sivasai Balivada, Olac Fuentes, Arshad Khan.

• Neurovascular interactions in the medulla oblongata

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