Degree: Ph.D
Google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8SJuRCYAAAAJ&hl=en
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Contact Details
Sandhya Mehrotra
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology and Science
KK Birla Goa Campus,
NH-17B, Zuarinagar, Goa-403726
Email: sandhyam@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
sandhyamehrotrabits@gmail.com
Phone:+91-0832-2580372
Mobile: 9772975612
About the Faculty
I obtained my master’s degree in Life Sciences and thereafter a Ph.D degree from centre for plant molecular biology, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. The dissertation involved studying expression and regulation of genes encoded by chloroplast genome and involved in photosynthesis. Though I analyzed several genes, my main interest was the primary carbon fixing enzyme RubisCO and gene encoding its large subunit. Thereafter I did a short post doctoral work in the area of developing anti-osteoporosis agents from Indian medicinal plants from Central Drug Research, Lucknow. In 2005, I moved for a post doctoral fellowship to Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, where I studied patterns of evolution of Calvin cycle genes. Since November 2008, I have been serving as a faculty member in the Biosciences department of BITS, Pilani. I moved from Pilani campus to Goa campus on 1st January 2018.