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Venugopal Mukku
Assistant Professor
Math, Science, and Technology Department
Office: Dowell Annex 248
Phone: 218-281-8097
E-mail: mukku002@umn.edu
Courses Taught:
- CHEM 1401 Elementary Bio-organic Chemistry
- CHEM 2301 Organic Chemistry
- CHEM 2310 Organic Chemistry – Lab
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. (1995) Andhra University , Visakhapatnam , India
- M.Sc. (1990) Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher learning, Prasanthi Nilayam , India
- B. Sc (1988) Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher learning, Prasanthi Nilayam , India
Research Interests
- Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the strains of S. aureus that is resistant to multiple antibiotics. Currently MRSA is susceptible to only a few antibiotics such as the glycopeptides vancomycin. I am interested in discovering chemicals from plants of the Red River Valley that exhibit potent activity against this particular strain.
Selected Publications
- George R. Pettit, John C. Knight, Delbert L. Herald, Robin K. Pettit, Fiona Hogan, Venugopal J. R. V. Mukku, John S. Hamblin, Michael J. Dodson, II and Jean-Charles Chapuis (2009). Antineoplastic Agents. 570. Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Bacillistatins 1 and 2 from a Marine Bacillus silvestris. J. Nat. Prod., http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np800603u.
- George R. Pettit, Venugopal J. R. V. Mukku, Gordon Cragg, Delbert L. Herald, John C. Knight, Cherry L. Herald, Jean-Charles Chapuis (2008). Antineoplastic agents. 558. Ampelocissus sp. cancer cell growth inhibitory constituents. J. Nat. Prod. , 71:130-133.
- George R. Pettit, Jiang Du, Robin K. Pettit, Linda A. Richert, Fiona Hogan, Venugopal J. R. V. Mukku, Michael S. Hoard (2006). Antineoplastic Agents. 554. The Manitoba bacterium Streptomyces sp . J. Nat. Prod. , 69:804-806.
- Anjaneyulu A.S.R., Rao V.L., Sastry, V.G., Venugopal M.J.R.V ., Schmitz, F.J. (2003). Juncins I-M, five new briarane diterpenoids from the Indian Ocean gorgonian Junceella juncea Pallas. J. Nat. Prod ., 66:507-510.
Awards, Distinctions and Honors
- 1999: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Bonn , Germany
- 1991: Research fellowship by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi , India
- 1990: Gold medal by Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher learning, Prasanthi Nilayam , India
Memberships in Professional Organizations
- Member, American Chemical Society
- Member, American Society of Pharmacognosy
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