Aniruddha Acharya

Courses Taught

• BIOL 4033 - Cell Biology
• BIOL 1014 - Introduction to Biological Science
• BIOL 1114 - Principles of Biology
• BIOL 4951/4952 -
  • Undergraduate Research - Pathogenic Microbiology
  • Casparian Strip
  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Calcium Signaling
  • Endophytic Bacteria
• Undergraduate Thesis (Honors)
• BIOL 4891 - Seminar in Biology
   

Education History

• Ph.D. - Environmental & Evolutionary Biology - University of Louisiana at Lafayette 2021
• M.S. - Biology - University of Louisiana at Lafayette 2021
• M.Sc. - Microbiology & Microbial technology - University of Kalyani 2011
• B.Sc. - Microbiology - University of Burdwan 2009

Research Areas

Selected Publications

1.      Acharya, A., Hopkins, K., & Simms, T. (2025). Silicon is the next frontier in plant synthetic biology. SynBio, 3(3), 12.
   
   
2. Sinha, N., Rushing, B. R., Acharya, A., & Ganapathi Shanmugam, S. (2024). Effect of Integrated Crop–Livestock Systems on Soil Properties and Microbial Diversity in Soybean Production. Applied Biosciences, 3(4), 484-502.
   
   
3.         Acharya, A. (2024). DELLA proteins and CBL-CIPK signaling pathway are emerging players in plant biotechnology. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology, 1-9.
   
   
4. ·       Acharya, A., & Pesacreta, T. C. (2023). P-ring: The conserved nature of phosphorus enriched cells in seedling roots of distantly related species. Plant signaling & behavior, 18(1), 2217389.
   
   
5.         Acharya, A. (2023). Out of sight, out of mind. Crop Science, 63(4), 1699-1700.
   
   
6. ·       Obeidat, S., Ma, J., Himelstein, S., & Acharya, A. (2022, October). The impact of the printed part geometry on the shrinkage and relative density in binder jetting additive manufacturing of ceramics powder. In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (Vol. 86632, p. V02AT02A026). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
   
   
7. Acharya, A., & Pesacreta, T. C. (2022). Localization of seed-derived and externally supplied nutrients in peanut seedling root. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology, 34(1), 37-51.
    
8. Pesacreta, T. C., Acharya, A., & Hasenstein, K. H. (2021). Endogenous nutrients are concentrated in specific tissues in the Zea mays seedling. Protoplasma, 258(4), 863-878.
   
   
9. ·      Acharya, A. (2021). Global agriculture management system. Crop Science, 61(5), 2861-2862.  
     
10. Wang, Y. H., Acharya, A., Burrell, A. M., Klein, R. R., Klein, P. E., & Hasenstein, K. H. (2013). Mapping and candidate genes associated with saccharification yield in sorghum. Genome, 56(11), 659-665.