Dr. Sona Pandey
Principal Investigator
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Sona Pandey joined the Danforth Center in 2008 as an Associate Member and Principal Investigator. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at Washington University, St. Louis. She received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry and M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University, India. She received her Ph.D. in Life Sciences form Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She worked as a research scientist in Center for Plant Molecular Biology, New Delhi, India before starting a post-doctoral career at the Pennsylvania State University, PA.
Research Interest
Sona is working to elucidate the physiological, genetic and metabolic networks involved in the plant’s response to environmental stresses. Her lab works with a class of evolutionary conserved proteins, the heterotrimeric G-proteins and a plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA).
Publications
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Romero-Castillo RA, Choudhury SR, León-Félix J, Pandey S. Characterization of the heterotrimeric G-protein family and its transmembrane regulator from capsicum (Capsicum annuum L.). Plant Science. 2015 May 31;234:97-109.
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Roy Choudhury S, Pandey S. The role of PLDα1 in providing specificity to signalâ€response coupling by heterotrimeric Gâ€protein components in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 2016 Apr 1;86(1):50-61.
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Choudhury SR, Pandey S. Phosphorylation-dependent regulation of G-protein cycle during nodule formation in soybean. The Plant Cell. 2015 Nov 1;27(11):3260-76.
