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Kongara Hanumantha Rao

Assistant Professor

Department of Life Sciences

GITAM School of Science

Visakhapatnam

Education

Ph. D.

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Dr K. Hanumantha Rao did his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Postdoc from NIPGR-DBT, New Delhi. His group is interested in understanding the fundamental cellular processes in Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes using molecular biology, biochemistry, and Bioinformatics tools in Candida, Vibrio, and Human-cell lines as model systems. The team is also trying to dissect molecular-mechanism pathogenesis in Fungi and Bacteria by adopting tools like Single-Cell RNAseq analysis, multi-omics approach

Research Publications

  • 1.Sahoo S, and Rao KH*. 2024. Role of carbon and nitrogen assimilation in Candida albicans survival and virulence. The Microbe. 4: 100127
  • 2. Sahoo S, Sharma S, Singh MP, Singh SK, Vamanu E, Rao KH*. 2023. Metabolic and Phenotypic Changes Induced during N-Acetylglucosamine Signalling in the Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans. Biomedicines. 11(7):1997.
  • 3. Rao KH*; Soumita Paul and Swagata Ghosh. 2022. N-acetylglucosamine kinase, Hxk1is a multifaceted metabolic enzyme in model pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. Microbiological Research.263: 127146.
  • 4. Rao KH*; Kasturi Roy; and Swagata Ghosh. 2022. Srg1, a putative protein phosphatase from the HAD-family proteins, is involved in stress adaptation in Candida albicans BBA General Subjects. 1866(8):130164
  • 5. Rao KH*; Kasturi Roy; Soumita Paul and Swagata Ghosh. 2022. N-acetylglucosamine transporter, Ngt1, undergoes sugar-responsive endosomal trafficking in Candida albicans. Molecular Microbiology. 117(2):429-449.

Ongoing Research Projects

  • Check Icon 1. DST SERB-CRG:.1.“Integrative Biological Approaches to unravel the central Role of Metabolism in Cell fate determination for Development of Novel Therapeutic Targets to combat Fungal Diseases” . Rs 61,00,000
  • Check Icon 2. SEED Grant Project.: Role of Arrestin-Related Trafficking adaptor (ART) Proteins in Endosomal Trafficking of Candida albicans. Funding agency: GITAM- Rs 5.0 lakh

Expertise

  • Check Icon Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interactions
  • Check Icon Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Structural Biology & Systems Biology)
  • Check Icon Single Cell RNAseq analysis
  • Check Icon Multiomics (Genomics, Proteomics & Metabolomics)
  • Check Icon Time-lapse microscopy and FRET analysis
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