Department of Biotechnology | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
faculty member

Baskar Ramamurthy

Professor

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Ph.D.,  Indian Institute of Science

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Block 1, BT 303

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044 2257 4110

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rbaskar[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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Lab: Block 1, BT 314

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044 2257 5113

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  • Mechanisms of pattern formation in cellular slime molds
  • Estimating spontaneous mutation rates during plant development

  1. Hathi P, Ramamurthy B. (2025). " Extracellular adenosine deamination primes tip organizer development in Dictyostelium.", Elife, 14, pp. RP104855.
  2. Brukhin, V., Baskar, R. (2019). "A brief note on genes that trigger components of apomixis", Journal of Biosciences, 44, pp. 45.
  3. Nassir, N., Hyde, G.J., Baskar, R. (2019). "A telomerase with novel non-canonical roles: Tert controls cellular aggregation and tissue size in dictyostelium", PLoS Genetics, 15.
  4. Saini, R., Singh, A.K., Hyde, G.J., Baskar, R. (2020). "Levels of heterochiasmy during arabidopsis development as reported by fluorescent tagged lines", Saini, R., Singh, A.K., Hyde, G.J., Baskar, R., 10, pp. 2103–2110, DOI: 10.1534/g3.120.401296.
  5. Umachandran, S., Mohamed, W., Jayaraman, M., ... Brazill, D., Baskar, R. (2022). "A PKC that controls polyphosphate levels, pinocytosis and exocytosis, regulates stationary phase onset in Dictyostelium", Journal of Cell Science, 135, pp. 9.
  6. Bhushan, S., Singh, A.K., Thakur, Y., Baskar, R. (2023). "Persistence of parental age effect on somatic mutation rates across generations in Arabidopsis", BMC Plant Biology, 23, pp. 152.