Dr Krithika Yogeeswaran
Position
Lecturer (Fixed Term)
Qualification
- 2005 Ph.D. in Plant Biology Cornell University, USA
- Adaptive Evolution of Genomes and Genes in the Brassicaceae - 1998 M.Sc. in Plant Sciences University of Madras, India
- Mycorrhizal Associations in Eucalyptus - 1996 B.Sc. in Botany Queen Mary’s College, India
Room
447 von Haast building (From 21 June 2010 room 466 von Haast)
Contact Details
Phone: International +64 +3 Local 364 2987 ext. 7042 (From 21 June 2010 ext 3863)
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
Email: krithika.yogeeswaran@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address: School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8020, New Zealand
Teaching
2010
BIOL 330 Advanced Concepts in Genetics
BIOL 352 Plant Development and Biotechnology
BIOL 430 Genomics
2009
BIOL 252 Plant Organisation and Physiology
Publications
Yogeeswaran, K., Voelckel, C., Joly, S. and Heenan, P.B. (in press) Pachycladon. In Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources. Volume 3: Wild Relatives of Oilseeds (ed. Kole) Springer-Verlag, Tokyo.
Yogeeswaran, K. and Nasrallah, M.E. (2006). Growth of other species related to A. thaliana. In Methods in Molecular Biology: Arabidopsis Protocols, 2nd Edition. (ed. Serrano-Sanchez and Salinas) Humana Press.
Yogeeswaran, K., Frary A., York, T.L., Amenta, A., Lesser, A.H., Nasrallah, J.B., Tanksley, S.D., and Nasrallah, M.E. (2005). Comparative Genome Analyses of Arabidopsis spp. – Inferring Chromosomal Rearrangement Events in the Evolutionary History of A. thaliana. Genome Research 15: 501-515.
Sainudiin, R., Wong, S.W., Yogeeswaran, K., Nasrallah, J.B., Yang, Z. and Neilsen, R. (2005). Detecting site-specific physico-chemical selective pressures: applications to the class-I HLA of the human major histocompatibility complex and the SRK of the plant sporophytic self-incompatibility system. J. Mol. Evol. 60: 315-326.
Nasrallah, M.E., Yogeeswaran, K., Snyder, S. and Nasrallah, J.B. (2000). Arabidopsis Species Hybrids in the Study of Species Differences and Evolution of Amphiploidy in Plants. Plant Physiol. 124: 1605-1614.