Education

Ph.D. in Medicinal Plants Research, Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India, 1997

Current position

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (July 2011 to till date)

Publications (since 2005)

1. Palusa, S., Ndaluka, C., Bowen, R. A., Wilusz, C. J. and Wilusz, J. (2012). The 3' untranslated region of the rabies virus glycoprotein mRNA specifically interacts with cellular PCBP2 protein and promotes transcript stability. PLoS One 7(3): e33561.
   
2.  Day, I. S., Golovkin, M., Palusa, S. G., Link, A., Ali, G. S., Thomas, J., Richardson, D. N. and Reddy, A. S. (2012). Interactions of SR45, an SR-like protein, with spliceosomal proteins and an intronic sequence: insights into regulated splicing. Plant J 71(6): 936-947.
   
3.  Thomas, J., Palusa, S. G., Prasad, K. V., Ali, G. S., Surabhi, G. K., Ben-Hur, A., Abdel-Ghany, S. E. and Reddy, A. S. (2012). Identification of an intronic splicing regulatory element involved in auto-regulation of alternative splicing of SCL33 pre-mRNA. Plant J.
   
4.  Palusa, S. G. and Wilusz, C. J. (2012). Approaches for the Identification and Characterization of RNA–Protein Interactions. J. D. Dinman (eds). Biophysical Approaches to Translational Control of Gene Expression, Biophysics for the Life Sciences 1, DOI 10.1007/978.1-4614-3991-2_10, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
   
5. Rozovics, J. M., Chase, A. J., Cathcart, A. L., Chou, W., Gershon, P. D., Palusa, S., Wilusz, J. and Semler, B. L. (2012). Picornavirus modification of a host mRNA decay protein. MBio 3(6): e00431-00412.
   
6.  Palusa, S. G. and Reddy, A. S. (2010). Extensive coupling of alternative splicing of pre-mRNAs of serine/arginine (SR) genes with nonsense-mediated decay. New Phytol 185(1): 83-89.
   
7.  Schindler, S., Szafranski, K., Hiller, M., Ali, G. S., Palusa, S. G., Backofen, R., Platzer, M. and Reddy, A. S. (2008). Alternative splicing at NAGNAG acceptors in Arabidopsis thaliana SR and SR-related protein-coding genes. BMC Genomics 9: 159.
   
8.  Palusa, S. G., Ali, G. S. and Reddy, A. S. (2007). Alternative splicing of pre-mRNAs of Arabidopsis serine/arginine-rich proteins: regulation by hormones and stresses. Plant J 49(6): 1091-1107.
   
9.  Palusa, S. G., Golovkin, M., Shin, S. B., Richardson, D. N. and Reddy, A. S. (2007). Organ-specific, developmental, hormonal and stress regulation of expression of putative pectate lyase genes in Arabidopsis. New Phytol 174(3): 537-550.
   
10.  Ali, G. S., Palusa, S. G., Golovkin, M., Prasad, J., Manley, J. L. and Reddy, A. S. (2007). Regulation of plant developmental processes by a novel splicing factor. PLoS One 2(5): e471.
    
11.  Rajam, M., Chandola, N., Goud, P. S., Singh, D., Kashyap, V., Choudhary, M. and Sihachakr, D. (2007). Thaumatin gene confers resistance to fungal pathogens as well as tolerance to abiotic stresses in transgenic tobacco plants. Biologia plantarum 51(1): 135-141.
    
12.  Han, M. H., Goud, S., Song, L. and Fedoroff, N. (2004). The Arabidopsis double-stranded RNA-binding protein HYL1 plays a role in microRNA-mediated gene regulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101(4): 1093-1098.
    
13.  Pullaiah T, Srirama Murthy K, Saiprasad Goud P, Dharma Chandra Kumar T and Vijaya kumar R (2003). Medicinal plants used by the tribals of Nallamalais, Eastern Ghats of India. J.Trop.Med. Plants. 4(2):237-241
    
14.  Rani, S., Murthy, K., Goud, P. and Pullaiah, T. (2003). Tree wealth in the life and economy of the tribespeople of Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 15(2): 259-278.
    
15.  Saiprasad Goud P, Murthy KSR, Pullaiah T and Babu GVAK (2002) Screening for antibacterial and antifungal activity of some medicinal plants of Nallamalais, Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 26:677-84.
    
16.  Kasinadhuni VRR, Rajashekar G, Rajagopalan R, Sharma VM, Vamsi krishna C, Sairam P, Saiprasad Goud P, Sadhukhan S and Gangadhara Rao G (1999) Anti-Ulcer potential of Haldenia cordifolia Fitoterapia 70:93-95.
    
17.  Saiprasad Goud P, Pullaiah T and Sriramamurthy K (1999) Native phytotherapy for fever and malaria from Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany.23:337-340.
    
18.  Saiprasad Goud P, Sriramamurthy K, Sandhya Rani S and Pullaiah T (1997) Non-timber forest resources in economy of tribals of Nallamalais. J. Non-Timber Forest Products 4:99-102.
    
19.  Saiprasad Goud P and Pullaiah T (1996) Ethnobotany of Kurnool district-some wild plants used as food. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany. Additional series, 12:224-227.
    
20.  Saiprasad Goud P and Pullaiah T (1996) Folk veterinary medicine of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh. Ethnobotany 8: 71-74.
    
21.  Saiprasad Goud P and Pullaiah T (1996) Ethno botany of Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.In: Ethnobiology in Human welfare ed. S.K.Jain, Lucknow pp.410-412.