Lata Israni Shukla

Professor. Lata Israni Shukla studied Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology (Roorkee University) Roorkee, India and graduated as MSc in 1990. She then joined the research group of Prof. P C Kesavan at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India and she received her M Phil & PhD degrees in 1993&1997 at the same institution. After  postdoctoral research at NCPGR, CPMB, SLS-JNU, Oakland University-USA, ICGEB-New Delhi  in areas of plant molecular biology, plant chlorophyll biosynthesis, DNA radiation-induced free radical mechanism, In vitro transcription- promoter escape in eukaryotic systems, generation of constructs for plant transformation using AC2 and B2 viral suppressor and the conserved miRNA cloning under different Prof S K Sopory, Prof B C Tripathy, Dr Sushil Kumar, Prof Mike Sevilla, Dr Arik Dvir and Dr Sunil Mukherjee and Prof R Sunkar. She has published more than 60 research articles, published one Indian Patent. She joined Pondicherry University in 2005.