Rammyani Bagchi

Lecturer

Biology

Email Address: r_bagchi@uncg.edu

Education

PhD in Biochemistry, University of North Texas

Courses Taught

  • BIO100: Orientation to Biology 1
  • BIO111: Principles of Biology
  • BIO111L: Principles of Biology (Lab)
  • BIO482/BIO682: Molecular Biological Approaches in Research
  • BIO495/BIO617: Advanced Genetics

Research

My research focused on understanding how plants respond to pathogens and environmental stress, as well as how hormone-mediated protein ubiquitination plays a key role in these responses.

Selected Publications

  1. Bagchi R, Tinker-Kulberg R, Supakar T, Chamberlain S, Ligaba-Osena A, Josephs EA. (2021) Polyvalent Guide RNAs for CRISPR Antivirals. iScience,
  2. Katz E, Bagchi R, Jeschke V, Rasmussen A, Hopper A, Meike B, Mark Estelle, Kliebenstein DJ. (2020) Diverse allyl glucosinolate catabolites independently influence root growth and development. Plant Physiology, 183: 1376-1390
  3. Bagchi R, Melnyk CW, Christ G, Winkler M, Kirschsteine K, Salehin M, Mergner J, Niemeyer M, Schwechheimer C, Calderon Villalobos L.I A, Estelle M. (2018) The Arabidopsis ALF4 protein is a regulator of the SCF E3 ligase. E.M.B.O. Journal, 37:255-26
  4. Salehin M, Bagchi R, Mark Estelle. (2015) SCF- TIR/AFB Based Auxin Perception: Mechanism and Role in Plant Growth and Development. Plant Cell, 27:9-19,  https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.114.133744.
  5. Bagchi R, Salehin M, Adeyemo OS, Salazar C, Shulaev V, Sherrier D.J, Dickstein R. (2012) Functional assessment of the Medicago NIP/LATD protein demonstrates that it is a high affinity nitrate transporter. Plant Physiology,160: 906-916, https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.112.196444.
  6. Salehin M, Huang YS, Bagchi R, Sherrier, Dickstein R. (2013) Allelic differences in Medicago truncatula NIP/LATD mutants correlate with their encoded protein transport activities in planta. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 8: e22813-1- e22813-5, https://doi.org/10.4161/psb.22813.
  7. Cable J, Ronald PC, Voytas D, Zhang F, Levy AA, Takatsuka A, Arimura S, Jacobsen SE, Toki S, Toda E, Gao C, Zhu JK, Boch J, Van-Eck J, Mahfouz M, Andersson M, Fridman E, Weiss T, Wang K, Qi Y, Jores T, Adams T, Bagchi R (2021) Plant genome engineering from lab to field—a Keystone Symposia report. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1506: 35-54,  https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14675.
  8. Salehin M, Bagchi R, Huang YS, Adeyemo OS, Sherrier JD, Dickstein R. (2015) The Medicago truncatula NIP/LATD transporter is essential for nodulation and appropriate root architecture. Biological Nitrogen Fixation, First Edition by Frans J. de Bruijn, 2: 593-598, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119053095.ch60