Skip to main content

Gopinath Viswanathan

Research Associate, Senior
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Research Interests


 I did my Ph.D. in Dr. Raghunand R Tirumalai’s lab at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India. My Ph.D. work was focused on identifying cell envelope associated genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are linked to its oxidative and antibiotic stress survival. In Dr. Tobin’s lab, I will understand the host response to mycobacterial infection using Zebrafish-Mycobacterium marinum infection model.

Selected Grants


Innate Immune Determinants of Granuloma Formation in the Zebrafish

ResearchPostdoctoral Associate · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2027

Genetic Dissection of Angiogenesis in the Tuberculous Granuloma

ResearchPostdoc Scholar · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2022 - 2027

Linking human TB genetic susceptibility loci to granuloma biology

ResearchPostdoc Scholar · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2026