Biography and academic profile
Gopal Chowdhary has obtained his master in Botany and M. Phil from Department of Botany from University of Delhi. He has a Ph.D. in plant Biotechnology. Thereafter he continued as post-doctoral fellow at University of Stavanger, Norway. He has about 8 years of research experience in the field of plant Molecular Biology. He has published his work in journals of international repute.
His lab primarily focuses on research related to plant molecular biology and plant proteomics. We work on three different plant species: model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa (rice) and Lyscopersicon solanum (tomato). The priority area is abiotic stress signal transduction with special reference to peroxisome. Peroxisomes are single membrane bound organelle, conventionally considered responsible for beta oxidation. However, with the advent of recent bioinformatics, molecular and biochemical tools newer functions have been attributed to it. With better subcellular prediction algorithms followed by fluorescent fusion protein construct analysis the peroxisomal proteome pool is increasing. Being one of the nodal centre of reactive oxygen species (ROS) metabolism in plant, it is supposed to play important role in stress tolerance as well. In our lab we use a combination of bioinformatics, molecular, proteomics and metabolomics tools to better understand the plant peroxisome biology.
His lab is also involved in understanding the role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in abiotic stress tolerance. Here, we are using rice as a model to study the PGPR-plant interaction. Currently, we are investigating the underlying signal transduction mechanism.
His lab is primarily funded by SERB-DST, BIRAC-DBT, Govt. of India, Govt of Ethiopia (Indo-Ethiopian Collaboration) and KIIT Deemed to be University.
