{"id":49044,"date":"2023-04-24T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/?page_id=49044"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:42:41","slug":"professor-r-mahalakshmi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/professor-r-mahalakshmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor R Mahalakshmi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"49044\" class=\"elementor elementor-49044\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cac80f7 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"cac80f7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-db23864\" data-id=\"db23864\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-455fe6a elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"455fe6a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9643c5b awsmgrid1\" data-id=\"9643c5b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-430946f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"430946f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www-cdn.krea.edu.in\/sias\/2026\/05\/mahalakshmi.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-49045\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www-cdn.krea.edu.in\/sias\/2026\/05\/mahalakshmi.png 500w, https:\/\/www-cdn.krea.edu.in\/sias\/2026\/05\/mahalakshmi-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www-cdn.krea.edu.in\/sias\/2026\/05\/mahalakshmi-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7571941 awsmgrid2\" data-id=\"7571941\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0d6a8d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c0d6a8d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Professor R. 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role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7794\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching Modules<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" aria-expanded=\"false\">About<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7791\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor R Mahalakshmi is originally from Coimbatore, India. She studied Biochemistry at Bharathiar University (BSc, 2000) and Molecular Biophysics at the Indian Institute of Science (PhD, 2006). Her doctoral research focused on designing peptide scaffolds with defined structural geometries of aromatic interactions. Following two short postdoctoral stints in structural biology in San Diego, USA, she returned to India in mid-2009 and established the Molecular Biophysics Unit at IISER Bhopal. She initiated one of the earliest studies in India on the biophysical characterization of \u03b2-barrel outer membrane proteins (OMPs) from bacteria and mitochondria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her numerous contributions, Professor Mahalakshmi has received the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Vigyan Yuva \u2013 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, and has been elected Fellow of all three Indian science academies: INSA, IAS, and NASI. She is also a recipient of the Wellcome\u2013DBT Intermediate and Senior Fellowships, the SwarnaJayanti Fellowship, and the S. Ramachandran National Bioscience Award for Career Development, among several other honors and recognitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She currently heads the MiND Laboratory at Krea University, where her research focuses on two major areas: (i) the folding, function, energetics, and engineering of mitochondrial and bacterial OMPs; and (ii) the design and development of peptidomimetics as next-generation antibacterials, along with targeted OMP inhibitors for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7792\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitochondria &#8211; the powerhouses of the cell &#8211; are vital communication and regulatory entities for cellular health, and their misregulation is associated directly with aging, and consequential diseases including cancer and neurodegeneration. Futuristic medical interventions demand discovering ways to restore healthy cellular function, particularly in brain neurons. At Krea University, the Mitochondrial Networks and Disease (MiND) laboratory will achieve this through the following focused research areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mitochondrial membrane proteins, mito-dysregulation in brain aging and neurodegeneration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Membrane protein interactome, molecular failures in neurodegeneration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Pioneering peptidomimetics design and engineering as targeted long-term bio-therapeutics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> AI- and experimental membrane protein thermodynamics, interdisciplinary synthetic biology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Membrane proteins as interventions for novel antibacterials for ESKAPEE pathogens (tangential project).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7793\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><strong>Google Scholar:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=ormlXywAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=ormlXywAAAAJ&amp;hl=en<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ORCiD: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1549-7550<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Five featured works:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ravi, R, Gupta, S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Kumari, J<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Rawat, A, and <\/span><b>Mahalakshmi, R*<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Linking multipoint folding and stability with functional regulation in the mitochondrial outer membrane protein Sam50. <\/span><b>Nat. Commun.<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In press <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(DOI: 10.1038\/s41467-026-70904-3). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Equal contribution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mahalakshmi, R*<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Decoding Outer Membrane \u03b2-Barrels: From Structural Curiosity to Engineered Nanotherapeutics. <\/span><b>Chem. Rev. 2026<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 126(8): 4619-4655 (DOI: 10.1021\/acs.chemrev.5c00902)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George, A, Raj, AM, Patil, AG, Kumari, V, and <\/span><b>Mahalakshmi, R*<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Lipid-regulated assembly mechanisms and functional energetics reveal zonal hotspots of the essential bacterial chaperone. <\/span><b>Chem. Sci. 2026<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 17:3103-3121<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(DOI: 10.1039\/D5SC07027A).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosencrans, WM, Khuntia, H, Larimi, MG, <\/span><b>Mahalakshmi, R<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Yu, T-Y, Bezrukov, SM, and Rostovtseva, TK*. Conformational plasticity of mitochondrial VDAC2 controls the kinetics of its interaction with cytosolic proteins. <\/span><b>Sci. Adv. 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 11(17):eadv4410 (DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.adv4410).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George, A, Ravi, R, Tiwari, PB, Srivastava, SR, Jain, V, and <\/span><b>Mahalakshmi, R*<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Engineering a Hyperstable <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yersinia pestis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Outer Membrane Protein Ail Using Thermodynamic Design. <\/span><b>J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 144(4):1545-1555 (DOI: 10.1021\/jacs.1c05964).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching Modules<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7794\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Physics for Biologists<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instrumentation in Biology (Ways of Knowing I)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biomolecular Machines in Health and Disease<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor R. Mahalakshmi, PhD, FNA, FASc, FNASc. Professor, Biological Sciences PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Wellcome\u2013DBT Senior Fellow. maha.r@krea.edu.in Facebook Twitter Youtube Linkedin Instagram Link About Research Publications Teaching Modules About Professor R Mahalakshmi is originally from Coimbatore, India. 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