Sandhya Mehrotra
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
India
Biography
Dr. Sandhya Mehrotra obtained my master’s degree in Life Sciences and thereafter a Ph.D degree from centre for plant molecular biology, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. The dissertation involved studying expression and regulation of genes encoded by chloroplast genome and involved in photosynthesis. Though she analyzed several genes, my main interest was the primary carbon fixing enzyme RubisCO and gene encoding its large subunit. Thereafter she did a short post doctoral work in the area of developing anti-osteoporosis agents from Indian medicinal plants from Central Drug Research, Lucknow. In 2005, and moved for a post doctoral fellowship to Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, where she studied patterns of evolution of Calvin cycle genes. Since November 2008, Dr. Sandhya have been serving as a faculty member in the Biosciences department of BITS, Pilani.
Research Interest
Carbon fixation and sequestration; enhancing crop productivity, Evolution of Calvin cycle and its enzymes, Stress responsive designer promoters in plants, Lipase catalyzed biofuel production from microorganisms.
Publications
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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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Kono T, Mehrotra S, Endo C, Kizu N, Matusda M, Kimura H, Mizohata E, Inoue T, Hasunuma T, Yokota A, Matsumura H. A RuBisCO-mediated carbon metabolic pathway in methanogenic archaea. Nature communications. 2017 Jan 13;8:14007.
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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.
