V Nagaraja
Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Valakunja Nagaraja received BSc (1973) and MSc (1975), both from Bangalore University and PhD (1981) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore for his work on 'molecular biology of host virus interaction'. Thereafter, he worked as Research Associate at the University of Basel, Switzerland (1981-85), and the University of Rochester, USA (1985-89) to work on type 1 restriction enzymes and regulation of anti-restriction system of phage Mu, respectively. Subsequently, he joined IISc as Assistant Professor (1989) and continuing to work there as Professor.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology of Mycobacteria, Regulation of Gene Expression Protein-DNA Interactions
