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Professor Basuthkar Jagadeeshwar Rao has joined IISER Tirupati as a Senior Professor in Biology with effect from April 2, 2018. Prof. Rao was a Senior Professor of Biology at TIFR Mumbai. He will be the Chair of Biology at IISER Tirupati.
Prof. Rao obtained his BSc from Nizam College and his MSc from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He then obtained PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the domain of Biochemistry. He did his post-doctoral work at Yale Medical School where he served as a research scientist for about seven years, before returning to India and joining TIFR, Mumbai. He has served TIFR in various capacities, from being a reader to Associate Professor, Professor and then Chairperson of Biology.
He leads a research group on Mechanism of Genome Dynamics and Cellular Adaptations Laboratory at TIFR. His areas of specializations are the molecular basis of genome dynamics, the computational biology of genomes and protein active sites, cellular physiology and metabolism, to which he made fundamental contributions. Apart from his fundamental research in the domain of biology, he is also interested in the dissemination of scientific knowledge and outreach activities.
