Shyam Kumar Masakapalli
Assitant Professor
Department of Basic Science
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
India
Biography
Shyam Kumar Masakapalli is working as Assitant Professor in Department of Basic Science in Indian Institute of Technology Mandi.
Research Interest
Metabolic network biology - fluxomics, metabolomics and transcriptomics (RNAseq) of cellular systems Central metabolism of Plant and microbial systems Biochemistry, Physiology and Metabolic engineering of microbes for sustainable generation of high value chemicals Modern tools and techniques for probing metabolism - NMR, GC-MS, metabolic modelling etc Natural product biotechnology – secondary metabolic pathways in plants Development of Microbial and plant hairy root systems as cell factories Plant microbial interaction at the level of metabolism
Publications
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Masakapalli SK, Ratcliffe RG, Anneli R, Kirsi-Marja O, Sweetlove LJ (2014) Metabolic flux phenotype of tobacco hairy roots engineered for increased geraniol production. Phytochemistry, 99:73-85.
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Masakapalli SK, Kruger NJ, Ratcliffe RG (2014) The metabolic flux phenotype of heterotrophic Arabidopsis cells reveal a flexible balance between the cytosolic and plastidic contributions to carbohydrate oxidation in response to phosphate limitation. The Plant Journal, 78(6):964-77.
