Gireesh Rajashekara

Professor
Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Food Animal Health Research Program, OARDC
United States of America

Professor Microbiology
Biography

Prof. Gireesh Rajashekara had done his graduation in BVSc(DVM), Veterinary Medicine and MVSc in Microbiolog from University of Agricultural Sciences, Karnataka, India. He done his PhD, Microbiology from University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA. He had done his Post doctoral Training from Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA and Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Research Intrest

Molecular microbiology Host-pathogen interactions and pathogenesis Virulence mechanisms Vaccine Development

List of Publications
Rajashekara, G., Glasner, J.D., Glover, D.A., Splitter, G.A. 2004. Comparative whole-genome hybridization reveals genomic islands in Brucella species. J. Bacteriology. 186:5040-5051.
Jun Zhu, Zhaohua Qiu, Christiane Wiese, Yohei Isheii, Jen Friedrichsen, Gireesh Rajashekara, and Gary A Splitter. 2005. Nuclear and mitochondrial localization signals overlap within bovine herpes virus 1 tegument protein VP22. J.Biol.Chem. 280:16038-16044
Gireesh Rajashekara, Michael Krepps, Linda Eskra, Angela Mathison, Alison Montgomery, Yohei Ishii, and Gary Splitter. (2005). Unraveling Brucella genomics and pathogenesis in immunocompromised IRF-1-/- mice. Am. J. Repro. Immunol. 54: 358–368.
Rajashekara, G. Glover, D.A., Krepps, M., and Splitter, G.A. 2005. Temporal analysis of pathogenic events in virulent and avirulent Brucella melitensis infections. Cellular Microbiology, 7:1459-73.
Bradley D. Anderson, Michael C. Gilson, Bryan S. Biehl, Jeremy D. Glasner, Gireesh Rajashekara, Gary A. Splitter, Nicole T. Perna. (2006). CGHScan: Finding variable regions using comparative genomic hybridization data. BMC Genomics 2006, 7:91.