Education
Usha completed her B.Sc (Honours) from and her M.Sc from Post Graduate Institute of Medical and Research(Post Graduate Institute), Chandigarh. She did her doctoral studies on yeast molecular genetics at California Institute of Technology.
Usha completed her B.Sc (Honours) from and her M.Sc from Post Graduate Institute of Medical and Research(Post Graduate Institute), Chandigarh. She did her doctoral studies on yeast molecular genetics at California Institute of Technology.
Her major research interests are Molecular Genetics, Plant Development. Usha took up a Faculty Position at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1990 and currently she is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology. Her research group at Indian Institute of Science uses molecular genetics and functional genomics to understand various aspects of how gene activity is regulated in yeasts and plants.
Since joining Indian Institute of Science, one of Usha"s research aims is to study genes that control flowering and plant morphology.