Associate Professor
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Chamber # C.Ex-6
BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa campus
NH 17B By Pass Road
Zuarinagar
Goa, India 403 726
Email: rmehrotra@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in
Phone: +91-832-2580-371
+91-9983734134
About the Faculty
I obtained my master’s degree in Agricultural Sciences from Banaras Hindu University with specialisation in Genetics and Plant breeding. I obtained my PhD from Banaras Hindu University, in Biotechnology while I was working at National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. My doctoral dissertation was entitled “Studies on interaction between cis acting upstream sequences in regulation of gene expression in plants.” Thereafter, I was a Post doctoral fellow in Graduate School of Bio studies, Kyoto University, Japan, Where I worked on finding the mitotic function of topoisomerase II using genetical tools and time lapse microscopy of living yeast cell. I joined BITS, Pilani in august 2007 and presently serving as associate Professor in the Biosciences department of BITS, Pilani.