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Himadri Pakrasi

George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor, School of Arts & Sciences
Professor, Department of Biology

Office Contact Information

Office
Green Hall 1160B
Mailbox

Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1137
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Phone
(314) 935-6853
Email
pakrasi@wustl.edu
Websites

Laboratory Website

NSF-FIBR
 PNNL Grand Challenge

Research Interests

My Research Interests are:

  • Systems Biology
  • Photosynthesis
  • Metal homeostasis

I am the director of two large-scale, multiinstitutional, Systems Biology projects (NSF-FIBR and PNNL Grand Challenge).

I participate in the following graduate programs:

My teaching interests are in the Biochemistry section of Principles of Biology III ( Bio3050), and its associated Computer Lab ( Bio3055).

I am deeply engaged in bridging the research interests in Physical and Biological Sciences.

Photo caption: Photosynthesis in Chloroplasts.

Selected Publications

Singh, A.K., Bhattacharyya-Pakrasi, M., and Pakrasi, H.B. (2008) Identification of an atypical membrane protein involved in the formation of protein disulfide bonds in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms, J. Biol. Chem, 10.1074

Roose, J. L., Wegener, K. M., and Pakrasi, H. B. (2007) The extrinsic proteins of Photosystem II. Photosynth Res. DOI 10.1007/s11120-006-9117-1.

Roose, J. L., Kashino, Y., and Pakrasi, H. B. (2007) The PsbQ protein defines cyanobacterial Photosystem II complexes with highest activity and stability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104:2548-53.

Kashino, Y., Harayama, T., Pakrasi, H. B., and Satoh, K. (2007) Preparation of membrane proteins for analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 849:282-92.

Kashino, Y., Inoue-Kashino, N., Roose, J. L., and Pakrasi, H. B. (2006) Absence of the PsbQ protein results in destabilization of the PsbV protein and decreased oxygen evolution activity in cyanobacterial photosystem II. J Biol Chem. 281:20834-41.

Koropatkin, N.M., Pakrasi, H.B., Smith, T.J. (2006). "Atomic structure of a nitrate-binding protein crucial for photosynthetic productivity" PNAS 103(26):9820-0925

For a complete list of current publications and links to full articles, please see Professor Pakrasi's personal website.

Awards

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Munich University, Germany.
Distinguished Fellow, Biosciences Institute, Nagoya University, Japan.
Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Burris Distinguished Lecture, South Dakota State University, 2004.