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Shrestha, Roshan

Assistant Project Scientist

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Research Interests:

• Microalgal biotechnology

Lapidot, M., Shrestha, R. P., Weinstein, Y. & Arad (Malis), S. 2008. Red microalgae: from basic know-how to biotechnology. In: Seckbach, J. [Ed.] Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (in press).

Oesterhelt, C., Vogelbein, S., Shrestha, R. P., Stanke, M. & Weber, A. P. M. 2008. The genome of the thermoacidophilic red microalga Galdieria sulphuraria encodes a small family of secreted class III peroxidases that might be involved in cell wall modification. Planta 227:353–62.

Bräutigama, A., Shrestha, R. P., Whitten, D., Wilkerson, C. G., Carr, K. M., Froehliche, J. E., Ohlrogge, J. B. & Weber, A. P. M. 2008. Massively-parallel pyrosequencing of cDNAs enables proteomics in non-model species: Comparative analysis of a species specific database generated by pyrosequencing and non-species specific databases for proteome analysis of pea chloroplast envelopes. J Biotechnol 136:44-53.

Weber, A. P. M., Barbier, G. G., Shrestha, R. P., Horst, R. J., Minoda, A. & Oesterhelt, C. 2007. A genomics approach to understanding the biology of thermo-acidophilic red algae. In: Seckbach, J. [Ed.] Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments. Springer Berlin, pp. 505-518.

Hoef-Emden, K., Shrestha, R. P., Lapidot, M., Weinstein, Y., Melkonian, M. & Arad (Malis), S. M. 2005. Actin phylogeny and intron distribution in bangiophyte red algae (rhodoplantae). J Mol Evol 61:360-71.

Shrestha, R. P., Weinstein, Y., Bar-Zvi, D. & Arad (Malis), S. 2004. A glycoprotein noncovalently associated with cell-wall polysaccharide of the red microalga Porphyridium sp. (Rhodophyta). J Phycol 40:568-80.

Ucko, M., Shrestha, R. P., Mesika, P., Bar-Zvi, D. & Arad, S. 1999. Glycoprotein moiety in the cell wall of the red microalga Porphyridium sp. (Rhodophyta) as the biorecognition site for the Crypthecodinium cohnii-like dinoflagellate. J Phycol 35:1276-81.

Shrestha, R. P. & Joshi, K. K. 1993. Effects of Phosphamidon and Monocrotophos on seed germination, external morphology and meiotic behavior in Vicia faba. Proceedings of Eight General Meeting of Nepal Botanical Society, Kathmandu:143-152.