B J Rao
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India
Biography
Dr. BJ Rao is a Professor in School of Biological Sciences , TIFR. His work focuses on understanding the molecular details underlying fundamental biological processes such as maintenance of genomic stability and replication stress arrest in mammalian cells as well as in Drosophila melanogaster. He also aims to decipher the cellular, physiological and metabolic adaptive processes in Chalmydomonas reinhardtii (a green algae). He employs molecular, cellular and organismal level approaches, combining with computational analyses, where required, and try to retrieve mechanisms in the context of cellular function and evolution.
Research Interest
Molecular basis of genome dynamics.
Publications
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Narayan S, Kombrabail MH, Das S, Singh H, Chary KV, Rao BJ, Krishnamoorthy G (2015) Site-specific fluorescence dynamics in an RNA 'thermometer' reveals the role of ribosome binding in its temperature-sensitive switch function. Nucleic Acids Research 43: 493.
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Chaudhari VR, Vyawahare A, Bhattacharjee SK, Rao BJ (2015) Enhanced excision repair and lack of PSII activity contribute to higher UV survival of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells in dark. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 88: 60.
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Chakraborty S, Mehta I, Kulashreshtha M, Rao BJ (2015) Quantitative analysis of chromosome localization in the nucleus. Methods in Molecular Biology 1228: 223.
