Dr. Priti Krishna
Protein Folding / Hormone Regulation / Functional Genomics

Who Are We?

CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

 

Postdoctoral Fellows Project

1. V Kesari - Sea buckthorn transcriptomics
2. A Mustafiz – Arabidopsis-spider mite interaction

Graduate Students (PhD)

1. J. Lehrer - Chaperoning ethylene signaling by Hsp90
2. P. Kalyan – BR-mediated stress tolerance


Undergraduate students

I. Watt – Gene identification by in silico methods

PAST GRADUATE STUDENTS

MSc

1. J. F. Cherutti, Sept 1993-June 1996 - Over and under expression of hsp90 in transgenic tobacco plants
2. M. Sacco, Sept 1993-March 1997 - Characterization of the native forms of plant hsp90 under non-stress conditions and of its expression in Brassica napus in response to various stresses and phytohormone treatments
3. P. Patil, Sept 1995-Sept 1998 - Expression of histidine-tagged hsp90 and mammalian p23 in tobacco
4. H. Underwood, Sept 1996-Sept 1999 (co-supervised with Dr. K. Dobinson) The effects of brassinosteroids on the infection of tomato with verticillium dahliae’
5. M. Quick, Sept 1998-Oct 2000 - Molecular characterization of a soybean p60 homologue
6. S. Goel, Sept 2005 – April 2008 - Identification of carboxylate clamp-type TPR proteins in Arabidopsis
7. V. Gupta, Sept. 2006 – April 2009 - Molecular characterization of two new TPR proteins in Arabidopsis
8.M. Khodai-Kalaki Sept. 2009-Nov 2011 - ERS2: a new client protein of plant Hsp90.

PhD

1. S. Dhaubhadel, Sept 1996-May 2001 - Brassinosteroids and thermotolerance: a first look into the mechanism
2. S. Kagale, Sept 2002-April 2007 - Brassinosteroids and stress tolerance: unravelling the mechanism’
3. U. Divi, Jan 2004-Oct 2009 - Brassinosteroid-Mediated Stress Tolerance: hormone pathways, genes and functions’
4. T. Rahman Jan 2004-Oct 2011 - Brassinosteroid-mediated stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

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