Usha Vijayraghavan
Professor
Department of Microbiology
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Usha Vijayraghavan obtained her BSc (Hons) from University of Delhi and her MSc from Postgraduate Institute for Medical Education and Research (PGI), Chandigarh. She did her doctoral studies on yeast molecular genetics at California Institute of Technology with Professor J Abelson. Subsequently, she worked on plant genetics as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor E Meyerowitz where she began her research on genes that regulate flowering. On returning to India, she took up a Faculty Position (1990) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore where she is working now as Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology.
Research Interest
Molecular Genetics, Plant Development
