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Biosciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Telephone : (865) 574-5870
Email : ranjanp@ornl.gov

Priya Ranjan

Post Doctoral Research Associate

• Ph.D., Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology (Bioinformatics), Michigan Technological University, 2006
• M.S., Biotechnology, India Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay), Mumbai, India 2001
• B.S., Chemistry, TM Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur, India 1999

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics
• Comparative genomics
• Gene annotation
• Molecular evolution
• Statistical genetics
• Alternative splicing
• Microarray data analysis

Recent Publications:

• Yin, T.-M., M. Davis, L. Gunter, X. Zhang, P. Ranjan, R. Sykes, and GA. Tuskan. 2010. Differential expression of genetic loci underlying above- and below-ground lignin contents in Populus. PLOS Genetics In review.
• Ranjan P, Yin T, Zhang X, Kalluri U C, Yang X, Jawdy S, Tuskan G A Bioinformatics-based identification of candidate genes from QTLs associated with cell wall traits in Populus, BioEnergy Research 2009 DOI 10.1007/s12155-009-9060-z
• Yuan Y, Chung J-D, Fu X, Johnson VE, Ranjan P, Booth SL, Harding SA, Tsai C-J: Alternative splicing and gene duplication differentially shaped the regulation of isochorismate synthase in Populus and Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2009, 106:22020-22025.
• Yuan J, Halfhill M, Abercrombie L, Rao M, Zhou X, .. Ranjan P et al. (2009) Functional genomics analysis of Conyza canadensis (horseweed) with special reference to the evolution of non-target site glyphosate resistance. Weed Science: In Press
• Udaya Kalluri, Gregory Hurst, Patricia Lankford, Priya Ranjan, Dale Pelletier. Shotgun proteome profile of Populus developing xylem. Proteomics. 2009 (21):4871-80.
• Rao, M.R.,M.D. Halfhill, L.G Abercrombie, P. Ranjan, J.M. Abercrombie, J.S. Gouffon, A.M. Saxton, and C.N. Stewart,Jr. 2009. Phytoremediation and phytosensing of chemical contaminants, RDX and TNT:identification of the required target genes. Functional and Integrative Genomics DOI 10.1007/s10142-009-0125-z.
• Xiaohan Yang , Udaya C. Kalluri , Sara Jawdy , Lee E. Gunter , Tongming Yin , Timothy J. Tschaplinski , David J. Weston , Priya Ranjan , and Gerald A. Tuskan. F-box Gene Family is Expanded in Herbaceous Annual Plants Relative to Woody Perennial Plants. Plant Physiol. First published on September 5, 2008; 10.1104/pp.108.121921
• Jason M Abercrombie, Matthew D Halfhill, Priya Ranjan, Murali R Rao, Arnold M Saxton, Joshua S Yuan and C Neal Stewart Jr: Transcriptional responses of Arabidopsis thaliana plants to As (V) stress. BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:87
• Ranjan P, Kao Y, Jiang H, C.P. Joshi, S.A. Harding and C.J. Tsai: Suppression Subtractive hybridization-mediated transcriptome analysis from multiple tissues of aspen (Populus tremuloides) trees altered in phenylpropanoid metabolism. Planta, 219: 694-704, 2004.
• C.P. Joshi, S. Bhandari, P. Ranjan, U. C. Kalluri, X. Liang, T. Fujino, and A. Samuga: Genomics of cellulose biosynthesis in poplars. New Phytologist 164: 53-61, 2004.

Book Chapter

• Tsai C-J, Ranjan P, DiFazio SP, Tuskan GA and Johnson V (2010) Poplar Genome Microarrays. In: Joshi CP and DiFazio SP (eds), Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Crop Plants: Poplar. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire In Press.

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