Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiSchool of Biotechnology

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KATERIYA LABLight. Cells. Discovery.

Kateriya LabProjects

Questions in focus, funded for discovery.

3 ongoing and 20 completed research projects since 2008, supported by national agencies and international bilateral programmes.

01 / Funding

Current projects.

Projects now running in the lab, from algal opto-biotechnology to cilia ultrastructure and new modular rhodopsin tools.

DBT2024–2027

Algal opto-biotechnological strategies for producing anti-inflammatory small molecules and microproteins from green algae.

Full project title

Development of algal opto-biotechnological strategies for production of anti-inflammatory small molecules and microproteins from green algae

SERB2024–2027

Ultrastructure of Chlamydomonas intraflagellar transport mutants and their relevance to ciliopathies.

Full project title

Ultrastructure characterization of Chlamydomonas intraflagellar transport mutants for molecular understanding of ciliary defects and their relevance to ciliopathies

ICMR2023–2026

A newly identified modular rhodopsin as an optogenetic tool to study amyloid conversion and propagation.

Full project title

Functional characterization of newly identified modular rhodopsin for development of novel optogenetics tools for deciphering molecular mechanistic of amyloid conversion and propagation

02 / Completed

Completed projects.

Past support: DBT, DST, SERB, STARS (MHRD), SPARC, DST Nano Mission, DST-DU PURSE, CCRAS, and Indo-German and Indo-Russian bilateral programmes.

  1. 01 Optogenetic modulation of ubiquitination of the neural proteins for studying long term synaptic plasticity and memory SPARC 2023–2025
  2. 02 Development of a sophisticated illumination device for regulating algal photoreceptors for enhancing photosynthetic and metabolic efficiency DBT 2021–2025
  3. 03 Decipher cellular and functional characteristics of modular rhodopsin and its novel optogenetic applications across the biological systems SERB-CRG 2022–2024
  4. 04 Systems biology approach to delineate molecular signatures of Prakriti in healthy humans CCRAS (multi-disciplinary extramural grant) 2021–2023
  5. 05 Molecular characterization of newly identified modular rhodopsin for development of novel optogenetics tools for neuroscience applications DBT 2021–2023
  6. 06 Development of light-gated BLUF coupled protease based optogenetic tools for modulating sumoylation mediated neural signaling and synapses plasticity STARS (MHRD) 2019–2023
  7. 07 Development of optogenetic tools for studying cAMP and di-cAMP modulated survival and pathogenicity of the bacteria DST-SERB 2019–2022
  8. 08 Development of single-cell derived clonal spheroids as a tool for drug discovery in cancer research DST, Drugs & Pharmaceutical Research Programme (joint project) 2018–2021
  9. 09 Development of optogenetics tools for deciphering the role of cGMP in ciliogenesis, maintenance of the ciliome and its importance in the ciliopathies DBT-IYBA 2018–2021
  10. 10 Decipher mechanistic basis of the intracellular trafficking of the optically active nanoparticles using super resolution microscopy DST Nano Mission 2018–2021
  11. 11 First molecular characterization of the intraflagellar transport (IFT) interactome of a flagellated fungus SERB 2017–2020
  12. 12 Cellular localization and functional characterization of the voltage-gated Ca2+ channel VGCC and enzyme-rhodopsin COP5 in the microalga C. reinhardtii using genome editing, biochemical and transcriptomics approaches DST-RFBR (Indo-Russian) 2017–2019
  13. 13 Photo-dynamic, biochemical and optogenetic characterization of the novel bacterial photoactivated adenylate cyclase DST-SERB 2013–2017
  14. 14 Functional characterization of new photoreceptor proteins and ion channels in the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using functional genomics methods DST-RFBR (Indo-Russian) 2014–2016
  15. 15 Engineering of photoactivated adenylate cyclase (PAC) for the development of optogenetic tools for neuroscience applications DBT 2013–2016
  16. 16 Biochemical and biophysical characterization of small GTPase from C. reinhardtii DST, SERC Fast Track Project for Young Scientists 2010–2013
  17. 17 Development of new light sensitive protein tools for neuroscience applications DBT, Indo-German collaboration in biotechnology 2009–2012
  18. 18 Characterizing novel globins across species and deciphering their stress response and interacting partners: an integrated, holistic approach for function elucidation DST-DU PURSE 2009–2012
  19. 19 Isolation, expression and localization of ion channel coupled rhodopsin of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii DBT 2008–2011
  20. 20 Characterization of rhodopsin mediated phototransduction of C. reinhardtii DBT 2008–2011

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Prof. Suneel Kateriya

School of Biotechnology
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067, India