Saravanan Kolandaivelu
West Virginia University Eye Institute, USA
Biography
Saravanan Kolandaivelu completed his graduate program at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. He then joined Dr. John Glomset’s group at Biochemistry, University of Washington as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow and then developed his interest in vision research during his tenure as a senior biochemist with Dr. Visvanathan Ramamurthy at West Virginia University. He was then promoted to the rank of Research Assistant Professor in the department of Ophthalmology at West Virginia University. He currently studies the importance of post-translational lipid modification of proteins and its role in retinal function. He was the recipient of a pediatric ophthalmology grant from Knights Templar Eye Foundation. He was also awarded prestigious young investigator travel awards from NIH and FASEB awards to attend national meetings. He published more than 20 papers in reputed journals. Currently, his laboratory is interested in understanding the molecular mechanism behind the role for protein palmitoylation in photoreceptor function.