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Profile Details
Hire Dr. Lakshmeesha K.
India
Scientist passionate about metabolism, metabolic engineering and protein biochemistry.
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing
Technical Writing
Research
Secondary Data Collection
Consulting
Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI
Statistical Analysis
Work Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Kent
September 2021 - Present
Scientist I
String Bio Pvt, Ltd.
November 2019 - February 2021
Scientist (I - Senior Scientist)
String bio
November 2019 - February 2021
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Molecular biology and Genetic Unit)
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
May 2014 - October 2019
Master of Science (Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit)
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
August 2011 - April 2014
Bachelor of Science (Lifes ciences)
Yuvaraja's College, University of Mysore
June 2007 - May 2010
Certifications
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Algae Biotechnology
coursera
https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/9AJXMJL36BVBMarch 2021 - Present
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Understanding Plants - Part II: Fundamentals of Plant Biology
coursera
https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/KPQ4QTEXZ2HRMay 2018 - Present
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PH425x: MalariaX: Defeating Malaria from the Genes to the Globe
edX
https://courses.edx.org/certificates/8d95702790784c92a239414fba30d28eMay 2018 - Present
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lakshmeesha Kempaiah Nagappa, Sundaram Balasubramanian, Hemalatha Balaram(2019). How a purine salvage enzyme singles out the right base . Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294. (32). p. 11992--11993. Elsevier {BV}
(2019). Biochemical and physiological investigations on adenosine 5’ monophosphate deaminase from
Plasmodium spp . Molecular Microbiology.
Lakshmeesha Kempaiah Nagappa, Pardhasaradhi Satha, Thimmaiah Govindaraju, Hemalatha Balaram(2019). Phosphoglycolate phosphatase is a metabolic proofreading enzyme essential for cellular function in Plasmodium berghei . Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294. (13). p. 4997--5007. Elsevier {BV}
(2018). Septins are involved at the early stages of macroautophagy in S. cerevisiae. J Cell Sci.
(2016). Role of W181 in modulating kinetic properties of Plasmodium falciparum hypoxanthine guanine xanthine phosphoribosyltransferase. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics.
(2015). Prediction of substrate specificity and preliminary kinetic characterization of the hypothetical protein PVX_123945 from Plasmodium vivax. Experimental parasitology.
(2015). Slow ligand-induced conformational switch increases the catalytic rate in Plasmodium falciparum hypoxanthine guanine xanthine phosphoribosyltransferase. Molecular Biosystems.
(2015). Kinetic mechanism of Plasmodium falciparum hypoxanthine-guanine-xanthine phosphoribosyltransferase. Molecular and biochemical parasitology.