Laxmi Shanker Rai

Assistant Professor

Department of Life Sciences

GITAM School of Science

Bengaluru

Education

Ph. D.

lrai@gitam.edu

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Laxmi Rai obtained his Ph.D at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (India), working on histone H3 variants in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans, with Prof. Kaustuv Sanyal. In 2017, Laxmi joined the Fungal Biology and Pathogenicity Unit at Institut Pasteur as a Post-doctoral Fellow working on C. albicans biofilm gene complexity using over-expression strategy with Porf. Christophe d'Enfert.

Research Publications

Rai LS, Chauvel M, Sanchez H, Wijilic LV, Maufrais C, Cokelaer T, Sertour N, Legnard M, Sanyal K, Andes DR, Bachellier-Bassi S, and d’Enfert C (2024) Metabolic reprogramming during Candida albicans planktonic-biofilm transition is modulated by the transcription factors ZCF15 and ZCF26, PLOS Biology, 22(6): e3002693.
Rai LS, Singha R, Sanchez H, Chakraborty T, Chand B, Bachellier-Bassi S, Chowdhury S, d’Enfert C, Andes DR and Sanyal K (2019) The Candida albicans biofilm gene circuit modulated at the chromatin level by a recent molecular histone innovation, PLOS Biology, 17(8): e3000422. *Recommended by F1000
Rai LS, Chauvel M, Permal E, d’Enfert C, and Bachellier-Bassi S (2023) Transcript profiling reveals the role of PDB1, a subunit of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex in Candida albicans biofilm formation, Research in Microbiology, 174(3): 104014.
Rai LS, Wijilic LV, Chauvel M, and d’Enfert C, Legnard M, and Bachellier-Bassi S (2022) Overexpression approaches to advance understanding of Candida albicans, Molecular Microbiology, 117: 589-599.
Lemberg C, Martinez de San Vicente K, Fróis-Martins R, Altmeier S, Tran VDT, Mertens S, Amorim-Vaz S, Rai LS, d’Enfert C, Pagni M, Sanglard D and LeibundGut-Landmann S (2022) Candida albicans commensalism in the oral mucosa is determined by restricted virulence and metabolic adaptation, PLOS Pathogens, 18(4): e1010012.

Expertise

Fungal Pathogenesis, Yeast Genetics, Genomics