Anitha Vijayakumar

A versatile molecular and biochemical scientist with experience in both plant and animal systems. Expertise in lipid metabolism, enzymology, and signalling pathways. Expertise in advanced procedures like chromatography and mass spectrometry. Collaborative team player dedicated to driving progress in biological sciences.

• Anitha Vijayakumar, Mrinmoyee Majumder, Shasha Yin, Charles Brobbey, Joseph Karam, Breege Howley, Philip H Howe, Stefano Berto, Lalima K Madan, Wenjian Gan, and Viswanathan Palanisamy,PRMT5-mediated arginine methylation of FXR1 is essential for RNA binding in cancer cells. 2023. Nucleic acid Research (Under review)

• Mrinmoyee Majumder, Harinarayanan Janakiraman, Paramita Chakraborty, Anitha Vijayakumar, Sari Mayhue, Hong Yu, Toros Dincman, Romeo Martin, Elizabeth O’Quinn, Shikhar Mehrotra and Viswanathan Palanisamy. RNA-binding protein HuR reprograms immune T cells and promotes oral squamous cell carcinoma 2023. Oral oncology (Accepted)

• Venkateshwari V, Vijayakumar A, Vijayakumar AK, Reddy LPA, Rajasekharan R (2018). Lipidome and transcriptome profiling of Portulaca oleracea: Characterization of lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase. Planta. DOI 10.1007/s00425-018-2908-8. IF: 4.1

• Pandey S, Vijayakumar A (2018) Emerging themes in heterotrimeric G-protein signaling in plants. Plant Sci. 170:292-300 IF: 4.7

• Heterotrimeric G-proteins as regulators of cellular redox status in plants. S Pandey, E McConnell, A Vijayakumar, SR Choudhury, L Hicks. Abstracts of papers of the American Chemical Society. International. 255 (2018)

• Iyappan R*, Vijayakumar A*, and Rajasekharan R (2018) The Arabidopsis Serine/Threonine/Tyrosine Protein Kinase Phosphorylates Oil Body Proteins that Regulate Oil Content in the Seeds. Sci. Rep doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19311-3 (*equal first author) IF: 4.3

• Kaur J, Roy Choudhury S, Vijayakumar A, Hovis L, Rhodes Z, Rob Polzin D, Blumenthal D, Pandey S. (2018) Arabidopsis type III Gγ protein AGG3 is a positive regulator of yield and stress responses in the model monocot Setaria viridis. Front. Plant Sci. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00109 IF: 5.7

• Acharya BR, Choudhury SR, Estelle A, Vijayakumar A, Hovis L and Pandey S (2017) Optimization of phenotyping assays for the model monocot Setaria viridis. Front. Plant. Sci. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02172 IF: 5.7

• Vijayakumar A, Panneerselvam V, Vijayakumar AK, Rajasekharan R (2016) The Arabidopsis ABHD11 Mutant Accumulates Polar Lipids in Leaves as a Consequence of Absent Acylhydrolase Activity. Plant Physiol, 170:180-193 IF: 8.9

• Vijayakumar A, and Rajasekharan R (2016) Distinct Roles of Alpha/Beta Hydrolase Domain Containing Proteins. Biochem. Mol. Biol. J. 2, 3: 18 IF:1.4

• Parthibane V, Iyappan R, Vijayakumar A, Venkateshwari V, Rajasekharan R (2012)

Serine/Threonine/Tyrosine Protein Kinase Phosphorylates Oleosin, a Regulator of Lipid Metabolic Functions. Plant Physiol. 159:95-10 IF:8.9

• Vijayaraj P, Jashal CB, Vijayakumar A, Rani, DSH. Rao VK, Rajasekharan R (2012) A Bifunctional Enzyme That Has Both Monoacylglycerol Acyltransferase and Acyl Hydrolase Activities. Plant Physiol. 160:667-83. IF: 8.9

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow award (2018) (National Level- Independent research award)
• CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship (2013) (National Level- Research support award)
• Poster presentation at Plant Biology-2012, Annual meeting of the American
• Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), USA. Received the ASPB, USA travel grant for best abstract.
• Research Award: Best Speaker, 80th Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India), 12-15, Nov 2011
• Best Research paper award given by Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore (2016)
• Velu Nachiar Women Award (2019), Society of Chemical and Synthetic Biology, India.

• Dean and Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, School of Biological Science, Central University of Tamilnadu, Thiruvarur, Tamilnadu, India, lipidindia@yahoo.com
• Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, PhD
• Dr. K. Dhandapani Kuppuswamy, PhD., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA, kuppusd@musc.edu