Invited Lectures

1)     Transformation and Expression of a Na⁺-dependent high affinity bicarbonate transporter, SbtA in Nicotiana chloroplasts. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Namitha Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra in “3rd World Plant Genomics and Plant Science Congress" July 15-16, 2019, in Osaka, Japan.

2)      Targeting chloroplast bicarbonate transporter BicA and SbtA to chloroplasts of Nicotiana for enhanced CO₂ fixation. Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology (GPMB 2017) September 11-13, Valencia, Spain

3)      Cyanobacterial CCM genes for improving photosynthetic yield and water use efficiency during heat stress in C3 plants. International workshop to develop climate resilient cereals. November 2-5, 2016, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.

4)      Improving C3 plant productivity using cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters. Proceedings of the 7^th Indo-Global Summit and Expo on Food and Beverages. October 8-10, 2015, New Delhi, India

   Presentations (Poster and Oral)

 1) Transit peptide and membrane protein leader determine the chloroplast targeting of SbtA; Namitha Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra & Sandhya Mehrotra,  'International Conference on 'Environmental Sustainability and Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges'  16^th -19^th November 2022;  Goa 

1)       Namitha S. Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra; Screening membrane protein leader sequences for targeting of cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters BicA and SbtA to C3 chloroplast; Emerging Trends in Biotechnology; BIOSANGAM 2022; MNNIT, Allahabad, Prayagraj, India; March 10-12; 2022.

2)      Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. “Expression Patterns of AtAVT6 Genes Underlying Abiotic Stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at International Conference on Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University, India, from 10-12 September 2021.

3)      Pinky Dhatterwal, Samyadeep Basu, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. “Genome wide analysis of W-box element in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals TGAC motif with genes down regulated by heat and salinity” presented at International Symposium on advances in plant biotechnology and genome editing & 42^nd meeting of plant tissue culture association, organized by ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, India, from 8-10 April 2021.

4)      Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra, Expression studies of an amino acid transmembrane transporter (AtAVT6D) from Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at International Virtual Conference on Plant Specialized Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering (PSMME), organized by CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, India, from 14-16 October 2020.

5)       Namitha Nayak, Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra & Sandhya Mehrotra; Screening membrane protein leaders for specific targeting of cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters to the IEM of C3 plant chloroplasts, a National Virtual Conference on ‘Current Trends and Challenges in Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 20-21st November 2021; Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, New Delhi & Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus; 20th -21st November 2020.

6)      Pinky Dhatterwal, Sandhya Mehrotra, Anthony J. Miller and Rajesh Mehrotra, “Functional characterization of an amino acid transmembrane transporter (AtAvt6D) from Arabidopsis thaliana” presented at International Virtual Conference on Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment, organized by Genome Research Limited, Cambridgeshire, UK, from 12-14 October 2020

7)      Integration and Expression of a Na⁺-dependent high affinity bicarbonate transporter, SbtA in Nicotiana chloroplasts. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Namitha Nayak, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra^. Plant Genetics and Genomics conference’ organized by SRMIST, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 24^th -25^th January 2020.

8)       Inorganic carbon transporters in lower photosynthetic organisms. Vandana Deopa, Kohei Yoneda, Sandhya Mehrotra, Yusuke Matsuda "Bilateral seminar between Japan and USA" 1^st – 3^rd Oct 2019, Kyoto international community house, Kyoto, Japan

9)       In-silico analysis across four plant genomes reveals over-representation of AAAG cis-elements in dicots as compared to monocots, Zaiba Hasan Khan, Anish Shah, Sandhya Mehrotra, Chandra Shekhar, Rajesh Mehrotra. National Conference of Plant Physiology-2017, Emerging Role of Plant Physiology for Food Security and Climate Resilient Agriculture. Indian Society for Plant Physiology, New Delhi.

10)   Panchsheela Nogia, Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Vandana Tomar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra. Transient expression and localization of a cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter BicA into chloroplasts of Nicotiana benthamiana. 8th International Conference: Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability; Oct 30- Nov 4, 2017, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

11)   Heterologous expression and in silico analysis of carboxysome protein ccmM of an early diverging cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceous PCC 7421. Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Panchsheela Nogia, Vandana Tomar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra. 8th International Conference: Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability; Oct 30-Nov 4, 2017, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

12)   An insight into the Regulatory Components of Carbon Concentrating Mechanisms in Aquatic Unicellular Photosynthetic Organisms. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. EMBO Conference on “Micro and metabolic regulators in plants, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala 01-04 February 2017.

13)   ACGT cis regulatory elements as mediator of plant stress response. Rajesh Mehrotra, Pinky Dhatterwal, Zaiba Hasan Khan, Sandhya Mehrotra. EMBO Conference on “Micro and metabolic regulators in plants, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala 01-04 February 2017.

14)   Strategies for installing SbtA- a cyanobacterial sodium dependent bicarbonate transporter to chloroplasts of model C3 plants to enhance CO₂ fixation, National conference of plant physiology: Challenges in crop physiology research: from molecular to whole plant, NCPP 2016. Vandana Tomar, Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra  December 8-10,  2016, University of Agricultural Studies (UAS), GKVK, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

15)   Extensive duplication and subfunctionalization of a nitrate transporter gene in Arabidopsis thaliana: Multiple factors involved in paralog retention P. Nogia, V. Tomar, G.K. Sidhu, R. Mehrotra, S. Mehrotra, Plant genome evolution: A current opinion conference, 6-8th September 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

16)   Analysis of the promoter region of an amino acid transmembrane transporter from Arabidopsis thaliana reveals internal duplication of 196 base pairs R. Mehrotra, A. Jain, Z. Khan, C. Sangwan, S. Mehrotra, Plant genome evolution: A current opinion conference, 6-8th September 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

17)   Vipul, Sachin Saxena, Purva Bhalothia, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra: Genome wide analysis of W-box in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals skewed distribution of TGACACATTTTGAC sequence in chromosome 1. Presented in IIT Kanpur  "5th Annual International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology (BIOTECH 2015)" held at IIT, Kanpur during March 13-15, 2015

18)   Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. Characterization of RubisCO and Carbon Concentration (CCM) proteins of Gloeobacter violaceous PCC7421 FAF-115, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.

19)   Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. Introducing cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter gene (BicA) into inner envelope of C3 plant chloroplast to enhance carboxylase activity of RubisCO. FAF-114, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.

20)   Vandana, Rajesh Mehrotra, and Sandhya Mehrotra. Approaches for transplastomic integration of SbtA- a high affinity sodium bicarbonate transporter to C3 plants for enhanced CO₂ fixation. FAF-116. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India

21)   Purva Bhalothia, Anshu Alok, Bhaskar Sharma, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. Cloning and characterization of protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) like promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana. FAF-27, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.

22)   Kaushik Renganaath K, Shashank Pandey, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra. Revisiting endosymbiosis in the light of nuclear mitochondrial cross talks mediated by the members of the telomere system. FAF-135, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, ICETB 2014. November 6-9, 2014, School of environmental sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University and Biotech Research Society of India, JNU, New Delhi, India.

23)   Sandhya Mehrotra and Prabodh Kumar Trivedi. Light regulates the splicing of the petB and petD introns of the psbB operon in Populus deltoides. PLANT BIOLOGY EUROPE, FESPB/EPSO 2014 Congress. The Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland, June 22-June 26, 2014

24)   Screening of candidate proteins as sources of transit peptide elements for targeting cyanobacterial genes into the inner envelope of a C3 plant chloroplast. Panchsheela Nogia, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. Indo Mexico workshop on Biotechnology: Beyond borders, Organized by CSIR, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune and CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Consejo, Mexico October 7-9, 2013, Pune.

25)   Occurrence and distribution of inorganic carbon transporters across various phyla of cyanobacteria. Tomar V, Sidhu GK, Mehrotra R and Mehrotra S. Indo Mexico workshop on Biotechnology: Beyond borders, Organized by CSIR, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune and CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Consejo, Mexico, October 7-9, 2013, Pune.

26)   Purva Bhalothia, Anshu Alok, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra: Cloning and characterization of protein phosphatase 2C like promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana. 3^rd international conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics. February 24-25, 2013, Rome, Italy.

27)   Characterizing operons encoding RubisCO and Carbon concentrating mechanism proteins in a primitive cyanobacterium, Gloeobacter violaceous. Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. The 38^th Lorne conference on protein structure and function, 10-14^th February, 2013, Lorne, Victoria, Australia.

28)   Analyzing structural and functional evolutionary links between RubisCO and Carbon concentration mechanism proteins. Gurpreet Kaur Sidhu and Sandhya Mehrotra. International Conference on Industrial Biotechnology, Nov 21-23, 2012, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India.

29)   An efficient protocol for isolation of high quality cellulose from stem of Calotropis procera. Somnath Maji, Panchsheela Nogia and Sandhya Mehrotra. International Conference on Industrial Biotechnology, Nov 21-23, 2012, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India.

30)   Rajesh Mehrotra, Ipshita Zutshi, Sachin Sethi, Purva Bhalothia and Sandhya Mehrotra: Patterns and evolution of ACGT repeat cis element landscape across four plant genomes. Next generation plant science 26-28^th September 2012, Cologne, Germany.

31)   Diversity of lipase producing microbial strains obtained from oil contaminated soils and their hydrolytic activity. Rajesh Mehrotra, Shobha Mehra, Sandhya Mehrotra, Bhavya Ravi. Proceedings of 3rd ICERT conference in Penang, Malaysia, 30th May-1st June (2012) pg200-209. 

32)   Ajay Sethuraman, Ashish Kumar Runthala, Hiroki Ashida, Sandhya Mehrotra (2011) Analyzing molecular evolution of Phosphoribulokinase, a key Calvin cycle enzyme, through examining the function of its homologue in heterotrophic bacterium Escherichia coli (2011) National Conference on Contemporary Trends in Biological and Pharmaceutical Research, March 12-13, 2011, BITS, Pilani.

33)   Kono Takunari, Sandhya Mehrotora, Hiroki Ashida, Akiho Yokota: "The molecular evolution of phosphoribulokinase for completion of the Calvin cycle" Gordon Research Conferences CO₂ Assimilation in Plants: Genome to Biome, Les Diablerets (2011) Switzerland.

34)   Sandhya Mehrotra, Akiho Yokota and Hiroki Ashida (2011) A novel active form of phosphoribulokinase coexists with ordinary phosphoribulokinase in the genome of the primitive cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceous. The 18^th Penn State Plant Biology Symposium, May 18-21, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.

35)   Takunari Kono, Mehrotra Sandhya, Akiho Yokota, Hiroki Ashida: Bona fide phosphoribulokinase and RuBisCO in methanogenic archaeon, Methanospirillum hungatei. Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry convention in 2012, Kyoto, Japan, March 25^th, 2012

36)   Uthra Balasubramanyam, Akhil Bajaj, Sandhya Mehrotra and Rajesh Mehrotra (2011) Diversity of lipase producing bacterial strains of oil contaminated soils and their hydrolytic activity. Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 27^th April- 1^st May, Prague Czech Republic.

37)   Takunari Kono, Mehrotra Sandhya, Akiho Yokota, Hiroki Ashida: Molecular evolution of phosphoribulokinase for completion of the Calvin cycle. Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry convention in 2011 Kyoto, Japan, March 26^th

38)   Takunari Kono, Mehrotra Sandhya, Akiho Yokota, Hiroki Ashida: The molecular evolution of phosphoribulokinase for completion of the Calvin cycle. The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists Sendai, Japan, March 22, 2011.

39)   Uthra Balasubramaniyam, Akhil Bajaj, Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra. Hydrolytic activity and diversity analysis of lipase synthesizing bacteria from oil contaminated soils. National Conference on Contemporary Trends in Biological and Pharmaceutical Research, March 12-13, 2011, BITS, Pilani.

40)   Madhulika Rai, Bhavya R., Shuvendu Kumar, Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra. Isolation and characterization of fungal DNA collected from oil fields for the purpose of biodiesel production. National Conference on Contemporary Trends in Biological and Pharmaceutical Research, March 12-13, 2011, BITS, Pilani.

41)   Rajesh Mehrotra and Sandhya Mehrotra (2010) Understanding the interactions between cis acting upstream sequences in the regulation of gene expression in Plants. National Conference on Bioprospecting: Access for Sustainable development, Feb 19-20. MNIT, Allahabad. 

42)   Rajesh Mehrotra, Sandhya Mehrotra, Akhil Bajaj, Purva Lohan: Promoter activation by ACGT in response to salicylic acid and abscisic acids is differentially regulated by the spacing between two copies  of the motif: in the international conference on emerging trends in Biotechnology (ETBT-2009) and 6^th annual convention on Biotechnology, INDIA (BRSI), Banaras Hindu University. 4-6 DEC 2009.

43)   Sandhya Mehrotra, Hiroki Ashida, Akiho Yokota: Analysis of the molecular evolution of Phosphoribulokinase, a key Calvin cycle enzyme, in primitive cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceus. The 49th Annual meeting of JSPP (Japan Society of plant physiologists), March 20-22, 2008, Sapporo Convention center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

44)   Sandhya Srivastava, Prabodh K. Trivedi and Pravendra Nath: A Lecture on “Molecular characterization and expression analysis of RubisCO large subunit gene from chloroplast of Populus deltoides. At VIII National Symposium on relevance of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, March 1-3, 2001, The American College, Madurai. India 

45)   Sandhya Srivastava, Prabodh K. Trivedi and Pravendra Nath: RubisCO large subunit gene from chloroplast of Populus deltoides: Nucleotide sequence and expression. At: Second symposium on Current advances in Molecular Biochemistry: Applications in health, environment and agriculture, November 9-11, 2000, Department of Biochemistry, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India.

46)   Sandhya Srivastava, Prabodh K. Trivedi and Pravendra Nath. Light regulated accumulation and processing of transcripts in chloroplasts of Populus deltoides. In: First ICGEB symposium on plant signal transduction, October 4-6, 1999, International centre for genetic engineering and biotechnology, New Delhi, India.

47)   Sandhya Srivastava, Prabodh K. Trivedi, Pravendra Nath and P.V. Sane: RubisCO large subunit gene from chloroplast genome of Populus deltoides. In: Society of Biological chemists (India), December 19-21, 1998, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.