Name:

Murugesan V.S. Rajaram

Education:

Ph.D.     Microbiology , 1999 - University of Madras, India

M.Phil.   Plant Sciences, 1993 - Madurai Kamaraj University, India

M.Sc.    Botany, 1992 - Madurai Kamaraj University, India

B.Sc.     Botany, 1990 - Madurai Kamaraj University, India

Mentor:

Susheela Tridandapani, Ph.D.

Research Interest:

Macrophage inflammatory response to Francisella novicida infection and the role of Protein Kinase B (Akt) during infection and cell survival.

Awards and Honors: 

1994-1996         Recipient of Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, India

1996-1999         Recipient of Senior Research Fellowship awarded by Department of Science

                        and Technology, Govt. of India, India

Publications:

1)   Kishore V. L. Parsa, Latha P. Ganesan, Murugesan V. S. Rajaram, Mikhail A. Gavrilin, Mark D. Wewers, Larry S. Schlesinger, John S. Gunn and Susheela Tridandapani .(2006)
Macrophage pro-inflammatory response to Francisella novicida infection is regulated by the SH2 domain-containing inositol 5’ phosphatase SHIP. (Submitted)

2)   Murugesan V.S. Rajaram and Robert F.Tabita. Molecular analysis of carbon  assimilatory genes rbcL and rbcS  in  Cyanobacteria (Communicated to Applied Environmental Microbiology)

3)   N. Anand and Murugesan V.S. Rajaram. Nitrogen fixation at night in nature. 1996. Current Science 70:119-120.

4)   N. Anand and V. S. R.Murugesan.  Nitrogen fixation by non-heterocystous filamentous cyanobacterium Lyngbyamartensiana (A53) (communicated to Indian Journal of Experimental Biology)