Dr. Rajesh Mehrotra
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
India
Biography
Dr. Rajesh Mehrotra obtained master’s degree in Agricultural Sciences from Banaras Hindu University with specialisation in Genetics and Plant breeding. I obtained my PhD from Banaras Hindu University, in Biotechnology while Dr. Rajesh Mehrotra was working at National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow with Dr Rakesh Tuli. His doctoral dissertation was entitled “Studies on interaction between cis acting upstream sequences in regulation of gene expression in plants.” Thereafter, he was a Post doctoral fellow in Graduate School of Bio studies, Kyoto University, Japan, Where I worked on finding the mitotic function of topoisomerase II using genetical tools and time lapse microscopy of living yeast cell. Dr. Rajesh Mehrotra joined bits in august 2007 and have been serving as an assistant professor in the Biosciences department of BITS, Pilani since then.
Research Interest
Promoter Biology (Stress responsive designer promoters in plants), Host-pathogen interactions, Cell division, Lipase catalyzed biofuel production from microorganisms, Carbon fixation and sequesteration ,enhancing crop productivity.
Publications
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Nogia P, Tomar V, Sidhu GK, Mehrotra R, Mehrotra S. Relative efficiencies of transient transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotianatabacum upon heterologous expressionof membrane proteins.
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Mehrotra R, Renganaath K, Kanodia H, Loake GJ, Mehrotra S. Towards combinatorial transcriptional engineering. Biotechnology Advances. 2017 Mar 11.
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Tomar V, Sidhu GK, Nogia P, Mehrotra R, Mehrotra S. Regulatory components of carbon concentrating mechanisms in aquatic unicellular photosynthetic organisms. Plant cell reports. 2017 Nov 1;36(11):1671-88.
