Nagaraj Vinay Janthakahalli

Background

Janthakahalli, Nagaraj Vinay Son of J. M. and Parvathi Devi Nagaraj.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1996. Master of Science, University Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1999. Doctor of Philosophy, University Basel, Switzerland, 2004.

Career

Senior researcher Biodesign Institute Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, since 2007, postdoctoral research associate, 2004—2007.

Achievements

• Achievements include research in knowledge-based integrative framework for hypothesis formation in biochemical networks. Research in distinct regulation of sucrose:sucrose-1-fructosyltransferase (1-Special Security Team) and sucrose:fructan-6-fructosyltransferase (6-SFT), the key enzymes of fructan synthesis in barley leaves. Patents pending for a superior substrate for protein microarrays.
  
  Research in piezoelectric printing and probing of lectin nanoProbeArrays for glycosylation analysis & sucrose regulated expression of a Ca2+-dependent protein kinase (TaCDPK1) gene in excised leaves of wheat. Research in calcium is essential for fructan synthesis induction mediated by sucrose in wheat & cloning and characterization of a soluble acid invertase cDNA (HvSAI) from barley.

Membership

Member of Society Glycobiology, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Father:

J. M.

Mother:

Parvathi Devi Nagaraj