Sunil KK Raju
Postdoctoral Scholar
Sunil spent a brief time in the Schnable lab as a “bridge” postdoc between the completion of his PhD in 2017 and his move to Michigan State in 2018 as employee number one of the Niederhuth Lab. Sunil joined the lab with a strong background in molecular biology and field research and an interest in developing his bioinformatics and plant phenotyping skills. He left with both those new sets of skills and a new fascination with the grass Tripsacum dactyloides a wild relative of maize native to much of North America and which possesses the ability to overwinter.
In the News
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PAG Lab Reunion
Hit a new record for the number of lab alumni attended: L→R Sunil K. Kenchanmane Raju (now of UC Riverside), James Schnable, Zhikai Liang (now of NDSU), Ravi Mural (now of SDSU), and Vla Torres-Rodriguez (news coming soon). -
Sunil Kenchanmane visits for PSI Retreat
We had the chance to host Prof. Sunil Kenchanmane, a former postdoc now a faculty member at UC Riverside, as a guest speaker at the 2024 Nebraska Plant Science retreat and got to hear about his work on plant comparative epigenomics and stress tolerance.
Recent Publications
- (2024) Rhythmic lipid and gene expression responses to chilling in panicoid grasses. Journal of Experimental Botany doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae247 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.09.29.560160
- (2020) Leaf Angle eXtractor - A high throughput image processing framework for leaf angle measurement in maize and sorghum. Applications in Plant Sciences doi: 10.1002/aps3.11385
- (2019) Parallel natural selection in the cold-adapted crop-wild relative Tripsacum dactyloides and artificial selection in temperate adapted maize. The Plant Journal doi: 10.1111/tpj.14376 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/187575
- (2018) Low-temperature tolerance in land plants: Are transcript and membrane responses conserved?. Plant Science doi: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.08.002