Venura Herath
Senior Lecturer
Department of Agricultural Biology
University of Peradeniya
Sri Lanka
Biography
PhD in Molecular Genetics: August 2011 ; School of Biology and Ecology, The University of Maine, United States. BSc : October 2004; Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Research Interest
Integration of outputs of computational genomics with biological information derived from forward and reverse genetic, biochemical, and physiological studies to assemble the hierarchical organization of the stress response transcriptional networks of Rice , Sorghum bicolor, Arabidopsis thaliana and Brachypodium distachyon.
Publications
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Xu, F., Park, M.-R., Kitazumi, A., Herath, V., Mohanty, B., Yun, S. J., De Los Reyes, B. G. (2012). Cis-regulatory signatures of orthologous stress-associated bZIP transcription factors from rice, sorghum and Arabidopsis based on phylogenetic footprints. BMC genomics, 13(1), 497. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-497
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Mohanty, B., Herath, V., Wijaya, E., Yeo, H. C., De Los Reyes, B. G., Lee, D.-Y. (2012). Patterns of cis-element enrichment reveal potential regulatory modules involved in the transcriptional regulation of anoxia response of japonica rice. Gene, null(null). doi:10.1016/j.gene.2012.09.048
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Benildo, G., Yun, S. J., Herath, V., Xu, F., Park, M. R., Lee, J. Il, Kim, K. Y. (2013). Phenotypic, Physiological, and Molecular Evaluation of Rice Chilling Stress Response at the Vegetative Stage. Rice Protocols (pp. 227-241). Humana Press.
