Biography:
Sandhya Mehrotra earned her Ph.D from National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India in 2003. She then joined as a post doctoral fellow at Nara Institute of Technology and Science, Nara, Japan where she studied carbon metabolic pathways in lower organisms. She joined Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, Rajasthan, India in November 2008 and has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences since then. Her research mainly focuses on carbon fixation, RubisCO and related genes, transcription control and designer promoters and lipase mediated biofuel production. She has more than 30 publications in journals of repute and serves as editor and reviewer of several journals from time to time.
Title : Role of the N-region in targeting multi-transmembrane domain proteins to the chloroplast
Title : Targeting chloroplast bicarbonate transporters BicA and SbtA to chloroplasts of Nicotiana for enhanced CO2 fixation