Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Puli Chandramouli Reddy

Puli Chandramouli Reddy

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Sciences


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Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Regeneration Biology, Epigenetics and Genomics

Ph.D, University of Pune M.Sc, University of Hyderabad B.Sc, Andra University

10/21 ? Present Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR

2019 ? 2021 Visiting Scientist, Zoologisches Institut, University of Kiel, Germany

2018 Early Career Fellow, India Alliance

2017 Research Associate III, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

2013 ? 2016 DBT-Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

2018 FEBS journal best poster award at Indo-US conference on ?Transcription, chromatin structure, DNA repair and genomic instability? held at IISc, Bangalore (March, 6-10, 2018).

2018 Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Research Early Career Fellowship award from 2018.

2013 ? 2016 DBT Research associate fellowship award from 2013 to 2016.

2011 Recipient of travel fellowship to attend 44th JSDB annual meeting in Okinawa, Japan (2011).

2004 Qualified the Joint CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for lectureship National Eligibility Test (NET) held on 27th June, 2004.

Mishra, V., Patil, S., Reddy, P.C.*, and Lochab, B.* (2022). Combinatorial delivery of CPI444 and vatalanib loaded on PEGylated graphene oxide as an effective nanoformulation to target glioblastoma multiforme: In vitro evaluation. Frontiers in oncology 12. (*Corresponding author) Patil, S., Mishra, V.S., Yadav, N., Reddy, P.C., and Lochab, B. (2022). Dendrimer-Functionalized Nanodiamonds as Safe and Efficient Drug Carriers for Cancer Therapy: Nucleus Penetrating Nanoparticles. ACS Applied Bio Materials 5, 3438-3451. Pillai, A., Gungi, A., Reddy, P.C.*, and Galande, S.* (2021). Epigenetic regulation in hydra: Conserved and divergent roles. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 9, 663208. (*Corresponding author) Pradhan, S.J., Reddy, P.C., Smutny, M., Sharma, A., Sako, K., Oak, M.S., Shah, R., Pal, M., Deshpande, O., and Dsilva, G. (2021). Satb2 acts as a gatekeeper for major developmental transitions during early vertebrate embryogenesis. Nature Communications 12, 1-19. Unni, M., Reddy, P.C., Pal, M., Sagi, I., and Galande, S. (2021). Identification of Components of the Hippo Pathway in Hydra and Potential Role of YAP in Cell Division and Differentiation. Frontiers in genetics 12. Reddy, P.C., Gungi, A., Ubhe, S., and Galande, S. (2020). Epigenomic landscape of enhancer elements during Hydra head organizer formation. Epigenetics & chromatin 13, 1-16. Reddy, P.C., Pradhan, S.J., Karmodiya, K., and Galande, S. (2020). Origin of RNA Polymerase II pause in eumetazoans: Insights from Hydra. Journal of biosciences 45, 8. Naik, S., Unni, M., Sinha, D., Rajput, S.S., Reddy, P.C., Kartvelishvily, E., Solomonov, I., Sagi, I., Chatterji, A., and Patil, S. (2020). Differential tissue stiffness of body column facilitates locomotion of Hydra on solid substrates. Journal of Experimental Biology 223. Reddy, P.C., Gungi, A., Ubhe, S., Pradhan, S.J., Kolte, A., and Galande, S. (2019). Molecular signature of an ancient organizer regulated by Wnt/?-catenin signalling during primary body axis patterning in Hydra. Communications biology 2, 1-11. Khare, S.P., Shetty, A., Biradar, R., Patta, I., Chen, Z.J., Sathe, A.V., Reddy, P.C., Lahesmaa, R., and Galande, S. (2019). NF-?B signaling and IL-4 signaling regulate SATB1 expression via alternative promoter usage during Th2 differentiation. Frontiers in immunology 10, 667. Reddy, P.C., Ubhe, S., Sirwani, N., Lohokare, R., and Galande, S. (2017). Rapid divergence of histones in Hydrozoa (Cnidaria) and evolution of a novel histone involved in DNA damage response in hydra. Zoology 123, 53-63.

Reddy, P.C.*, Gungi, A., and Unni, M. (2019). Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Hydra regeneration. Evo-Devo: Non-model Species in Cell and Developmental Biology, 259-290. (*Corresponding author)

"Hydra as model system"; UNIZEIT (04-07-2020) https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/university/details/news/puli-reddy#

?Identification of cell type transitions and their regulation by hedgehog signalling in re-establishment of organizer centre during hydra regeneration?, PI: Reddy, P.C., India Alliance DBT and WellcomeTrust Early Career Fellowship, INR:1,04,87,800, 2018-2022 (5 years) "Elucidation of specification mechanisms of male germ cells and epigenetic reprogramming during gametogenesis in Hydra", Startup Research Grant (SRG), PI: Reddy, P.C., SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD (SERB), INR 26,00,000, 2022-2024 (2 years)