Kartika Wardhani, Ph.D.

Associate ASERT Fellow

University of New Mexico-Health Sciences Center

College of Nursing

Email (as a link) kwardhani@salud.unm.edu

Education:

• Associate ASERT Postdoctoral Fellow, Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences, University of New Mexico, College of Nursing, Albuquerque, NM, 2023 - Present
• Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Hematology/Oncology, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 2022-2023
• PhD, Chemistry, University of Sydney (USYD), Australia, 2022
• Postgraduate Researcher, Biophysical Chemistry and Bioanalytical Technology, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences Academia Sinica (IAMS), Taiwan, 2017
• MS, Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taiwan, 2015

Teaching:

Teaching Mentor:  Not assigned yet.

Courses Taught: Not assigned yet

Research:

Current Research (One sentence synopsis): Studying the systemic impact and innovative pathways of circulating extracellular vesicles following inhaled exposures.

Research Mentors:

• Katherine E. Zychowski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Cancer Center Control and Pop Sci, SOM – Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Jennifer M. Gillette, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Senior Director for Research, Department of Pathology, Flow Cytometry and Single Cell Analytics Shared Resource Director, Cancer Center – Cellular and Molecular Oncology

Publications:

1. Wardhani, K.; Levina, A.; Sun, B.; Grau, G. E. R.; Keene, F. R.; Collins, J. G.; Lay, P. A., A tetranuclear polypyridylruthenium(II) complex as a selective stain for extracellular vesicle penetration through brain microvascular endothelium. Chemical Communications, 2023, 59, 6877-6880. PubMed PMID: 37195631.
2. Wardhani, K.; Levina, A.; Grau, G. E. R.; Lay, P. A., A Critical Review of Fluorescent and Other Labelling Approaches to Extracellular Vesicles. Proposal has been accepted, and manuscript is under review for publication in Chemical Society Review, 2023.
3. Wardhani, K., et al. Nanodiamonds in Analytical and Biological Sciences: Principles and Applications. Wiley; 1st edition, ASIN: B0CJH4XWQC, ISBN: 1394202156, 9781394202157,
4. Wardhani, K.; Yazzie, S.; Edeh, O.; Grimes, M.; Jacquez, Q.; Dixson, C.; Liu, R.; Bolt, A.; Feng, C.; Zychowski, K. E., Systemic Immunological Responses are Dependent on Sex and Ovarian Hormone Presence Following Acute Inhaled Woodsmoke with Metal-Particulates. Manuscript is under review for publication in Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 2023.
5. Wardhani, K.; Levina, A.; Sun, B.; Zou, H.; Grau, G. E. R.; Keene, F. R.; Collins, J. G.; Lay, P. A., Tetranuclear polypyridylruthenium(II) complexes as selective nucleic acid stains for flow cytometric analysis of monocytic large extracellular vesicles. Manuscript is under review as an invited paper for Biomolecules, 2023.
6. Wardhani, K.; Levina, A.; Sun, B.; Grau, G. E. R.; Keene, F. R.; Collins, J. G.; Lay, P. A., Observation of the uptake and interactions of phosphorescently labelled monocytic extracellular vesicles with breast and lung cancer cell lines using IncuCyte live imaging system. Manuscript is under review for publication in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2023.
7. Levina, A.; Wardhani, K.; Stephens, L. J.; Werrett, M. V.; Caporale, C.; Dallerba, E.; Blair, V.; Massi, M.; Lay, P. A.; Andrews, P. C., Neutral Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes with Sulfur-Donor Ligands: Anti-Proliferative Activity and Cellular Localization. Manuscript is under review for publication in Dalton Transactions, 2023.
8. Sotoma, S.; Hsieh, F. J.; Chen, Y. W.; Chen, J.; Wardhani, K.; Tsai, P. C.; Chang, H. C., Characterization, and applications of fluorescent nanodiamonds surface-coated with photo-crosslinked lipids. SPIE, Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication XI, 2018, 10547, 1054704. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2297145