Baishnab Charan Tripathy

Biography

Baishnab Charan Tripathy received BSc and MSc degrees from Utkal University, after which he joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and worked under the supervision of Professor Prasanna Mohanty. Thereafter, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ohio State University, Columbus (1981-83) where he worked on bioenergetics of choloroplast and mitochondria and then at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1984-87) where he worked on heterogeneity of chlorophyll biosynthesis. Subsequently, he worked for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Centre, Florida and worked on space-grown plants and studied the effect of zero gravity on photosynthesis, plant growth and development. On returning to India in 1987, he joined Faculty of the School of Life Sciences, JNU, started his Photobiology Laboratory there and initiated both teaching and research programs in plant physiology and photobiology. He continues to work as Professor at JNU.

Research Interest

Plant Physiology, Plant Biotechnology