Education:
Assistant Professor (June 2009 - Present), Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research| Bhopal, India., Post-doc. Aug 2008 - May 2009| Department of Molecular Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego| CA, USA, with Drs. Carl Ware and Dirk Zajonc.Post-doc. Nov 2006 - July 2008| Department of Apoptosis and Cell Death Research, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA, USA, with Dr. Francesca M. Marassi.Ph. D. Aug 2003 - Oct 2006, in Molecular Biophysics from Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, with Prof. P. Balaram.
Fellowship Type:
India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship
Research:
Yeast mitochondrial membrane protein structure and function |Identification of the switch in early-to-late endosome transition.
List of Publications:
Maurya, SR and Mahalakshmi, R*. Cysteine Residues Impact the Stability and Micelle Interaction Dynamics of the Human Mitochondrial barrel Anion Channel hVDAC-2. PLoS One 2014, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092183 (in production)., Makwana, KM and Mahalakshmi, R*. Comparative analysis of cross strand aromatic-Phe interactions in designed peptide ufffd-hairpins. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C3OB42247J., Maurya, SR and Mahalakshmi, R*. Influence of Protein - Micelle Ratios and Cysteine Residues on the Kinetic Stability and Unfolding Rates of Human Mitochondrial VDAC-2. PLoS One 2014, 9(1): e87701 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087701).|Chaturvedi, D and Mahalakshmi, R*. Methionine Mutations of Outer Membrane Protein X Influence Structural Stability and beta-Barrel Unfolding. PLoS One 2013, 8(11): e79351 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079351).
