User:Ramjibhandari/sandbox

Ramji K. Bhandari is a faculty at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He earned his B.Sc. degree from Bangladesh Agricultural University in 1996 and Ph.D. degree from Hokkaido University in 2002. He found that prolactin surge occurs right before the onset of homing migration in salmon and could be an endocrine alarm for them to plan on returning to the natal river for spawning. He also demonstrated with Dr. Masaru Nakamura that endogenous estrogen is essential for maintenance of femaleness in sequentially hermaphrodite fish and also found that it is true for gonochoristic fishes. Other accomplishments include downstream targets of male sex determining factor SRY in mammals, TCF21 is a downstream factor of SRY and is involved in testis development, DNA methylation dynamics in primordial germ cells induced by vinclozolin. He recently demonstrated that BPA (a chemical in plastics) and EE2 (a chemical constituent of birth control pills) can induce transgenerational reproductive and developmental defects in medaka fish.