Usha Vijayaraghavan

Usha Vijayaraghavan (born. 1961) is on the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, Bangalore. Her major research interests are Molecular Genetics, Plant Development.^[1][2]

Education

Usha completed her B.Sc (Hons) from University of Delhi and her M.Sc from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research(PGI), Chandigarh. She did her doctoral studies on yeast molecular genetics at California Institute of Technology.^[1]

Career

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 IISc uses molecular genetics and functional genomics to understand various aspects of how gene activity is regulated in yeasts and plants. Since joining IISc, one of Usha's research aims is to study genes that control flowering and plant morphology.^[1][3]

Awards and Honors

Usha has been recognized for her work and some of her accomplishments include:

• DBT-Bioscience award
• International Senior Research Fellowship of The Wellcome Trust, UK
• J. C. Bose Fellowship
• Fellowship of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore in 2007
• Fellowship of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi
• Fellowship of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad
• National Bioscience Award for Career Development, Department of Biotechnology. Govt. of India
• Sir C. V. Raman Award
• Rockefeller Foundation Biotechnology Career Fellowship^[4]

Usha has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biosciences. She has been serving as Associate Editor for the Journal of Genetics.^[1]

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