Girdhar Kumar Pandey
PROFESSOR
Department of Plant Molecular Biology
University of Delhi
India
Biography
Ph.D. Ph.D. (Life Sciences) (Presence and role of homologues of EhCaBP (E. histolytica Calcium binding protein) in higher plants and characterization of a novel protein kinase from Brassica juncea), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 1999 PG M.Sc (Biotechnology), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. 1994 UG B.Sc. (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi. 1992
Research Interest
Research interest is to explore the function of Calcium-mediated Signaling Pathway in rice and Arabidopsis under abiotic stress condition. By enlarge a greater emphasis is being given to understand the global networking of CBLCIPK pathway with other stress regulated signaling cascades such as Calmodulin and CaM-kinase, CDPK (Calcium dependent protein kinases), MAP kinase signaling network and their counteraction by protein phosphatases under different stress conditions. Moreover, I wanted to explore detail mechanistic interplay of signaling cascades, which involves a plethora of kinases and phosphatases regulating ion transporter, or channels and transcription factors in both Arabidopsis and rice model system under different stress conditions. Overall, my ultimate aim would be to target the molecular components such as key signaling components for developing or designing crop plant, which can withstand the abiotic stresses without loosing the crop productivity.
Publications
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Jha, Saroj K, Shikha Malik, Manisha Sharma, Amita Pandey and Girdhar K. Pandey (2017) Recent advances in substrate identification of protein kinases in plants and their role in stress management. Current Genomics, 18, 000-000.
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Zhang, DY, Kumar M, Xu L, Wan Q, Huang YH, Xu ZL, He XL, Ma JB, Pandey, Girdhar K, Shao HB (2017) Genomewide identification of Major Intrinsic Proteins in Glycine soja and characterization of GmTIP2;1 function under salt and water stress. Sci Rep. 2017 Jun 23;7(1):4106.
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Pandey, Amita, Yadav V, Sharma A, Khurana JP, Pandey, Girdhar K. (2017) The unc-53 gene negatively regulates rac GTPases to inhibit unc-5 activity during Distal tip cell migrations in C. elegans. Cell Adh Migr. 2017 Jul 5:0. doi: 10.1080/19336918.2017.1345413.
