• Biochemistry
• Plant based products (like Pharmaceuticals)
• Pharmacology
• Biological Imaging
• Immunology

Publications:

The sterol transport pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana. Kumar. K, Gibbs. H, Yeh. A, and Griffing. L. Submitted in Traffic journal.

Effect of exogenous sterol (cholesterol and stigmasterol) on the growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana. Kumar. K, Garcia. K, Barnett. A, and Griffing. L. Manuscript under construction.

Arabidopsis CPL4 is an essential C-terminal domain phosphatase that suppresses xenobiotic stress responses. Fukudome A, Aksoy E, Wu X, Kumar K, Jeong IS, May K, Russell WK, Koiwa H. Plant J. 2014 Oct; 80(1):27-39.

Translocation of phospholipase A2α to apoplasts is modulated by developmental stages and bacterial infection in Arabidopsis. Jung J, Kumar K, Lee HY, Park YI, Cho HT, Ryu SB. Front Plant Sci. 2012 Jun 18;3:126.

Presentations:

Oral and poster presentation in Midwest Plant Cell Dynamics 2018 meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Effect of exogenous sterol on the growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Presented poster in BIO-SPRC 2017 conference,Texas A&M University. The sterol transport pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Oral and poster presentation in Midwest Plant Cell Dynamics 2017 meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison. The sterol transport pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Presented poster in BIO-SPRC 2016 conference,Texas A&M University. The sterol transport pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Presented poster in BIO-SPRC 2015 conference, Texas A&M University. The sterol transport pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Oral and poster presentation in Midwest Plant Cell Dynamics 2015 meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison. The sterol transport pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Presented poster in MEPS symposium 2014, Texas A&M University.

Presented poster in BIO-SPRC meeting 2014,Texas A&M University.

Presented poster in MEPS symposium 2013, Texas A&M University.