Karuppannan Veluthambi

Karuppannan Veluthambi is an Indian molecular biologist, plant biotechnologist and a former Professor and INSA-Senior Scientist at the School of Biotechnology (SBT) of Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU). Education After earning his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Botany) from University of Madras in 1975, both of which included a Gold Medal, Veluthambi joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where he went on to get his Ph.D in 1981 under the guidance of Professor Ramesh Maheshwari. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow, from 1981 to 1988, with Dr. John Giovanelli at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, United States, Professor BW Poovaiah at Washington State University, United States, and Professor Stanton B. Gelvin at Purdue University, United States. During this time, he outlined the function of calcium and calmodulin in controlling the phosphorylation of proteins in plants and described the intermediates of the T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium to plants.

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2002: Elected as Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences 2002: Elected as Fellow of Guha Research Conference 2008: Elected as Fellow of Indian National Science Academy