0000-0003-3060-625X About
Usha Vijayraghavan obtained her Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA in yeast genetics where she also changed fields to do her post-doctoral research on transcription factors that regulate plant development.
She is currently Dean, Division of Biological Sciences and Professor at Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. She is the first woman Dean in IISc which is India’s 114 year premier research institution for science and engineering. For her highest academic achievements she holds the J N Tata Chair, one of three endowed Professorships at IISc. Her group uses genetic and genomic tools to investigate key factors that control rice plant development. Their pioneering investigations were among the earliest in the world to deeply investigate rice as a model for cereals. Her group has made key discoveries on transcription factors driven complex gene networks that control plant, panicle architecture and floret fertility. Their work published in top-ranking journals has advanced our knowledge on genes and pathways that influence crop yield.
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Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Dean, Division of Biological Sciences, Professor Dept of MCB
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Publications (37)
- Functional genetics of rice PISTILLATA genes reveals new roles and target genes in flowering time, female fertility, and parthenocarpy Save
- Prp16 enables efficient splicing of introns with diverse exonic consensus elements in the short-intron rich Cryptococcus neoformans transcriptome Save
- Functional genetics of rice PISTILLATA genes unravels new roles and targets in flowering time, female fertility and parthenocarpy Save
- OsbZIP47 Is an Integrator for Meristem Regulators During Rice Plant Growth and Development. Save
- Regulation of meristem maintenance and organ identity during rice reproductive development. Save
- The Fission Yeast Pre-mRNA-processing Factor 18 (prp18+) Has Intron-specific Splicing Functions with Links to G1-S Cell Cycle Progression. Save
- Genome-Wide Targets Regulated by the OsMADS1 Transcription Factor Reveals Its DNA Recognition Properties. Save
- SUB1 Plays a Negative Role during Starvation Induced Sporulation Program in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Save
- Functions for rice RFL in vegetative axillary meristem specification and outgrowth. Save
- Involvement of S. cerevisiae Rpb4 in subset of pathways related to transcription elongation. Save