Sunil KK Raju

Sunil KK Raju

Postdoctoral Scholar

  • Cohort Postdocs and Visiting Scientists
  • Tenure 2017-2018
  • Now Assistant Professor, UC Riverside

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.

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In the News

  • 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 Vladimir Torres-Rodriguez (now a Scientist at Traits Company).

  • 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

  • Raju SKK, Zhang Y, Mahboub S, Ngu DW, Qiu Y, Harmon FG, Schnable JC, Roston RL (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
  • Raju SKK, Thompson AM, Schnable JC (2020) Advances in plant phenomics: From data and algorithms to biological insights. Applications in Plant Sciences doi: 10.1002/aps3.11386
  • Raju SKK, Atkins M, Enerson A, Carvalho DS, Studer AJ, Ganapathysubramanian B, Schnable PS, Schnable JC (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
  • Yan L, Raju SKK, Lai X, Zhang Y, Dai X, Rodriguez O, Mahboub S, Roston RL, Schnable JC (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
  • Raju SKK, Barnes A, Schnable JC, Roston RL (2018) Low-temperature tolerance in land plants: Are transcript and membrane responses conserved?. Plant Science doi: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.08.002