Renu Srivastava

Dr. Renu Srivastava received a Ph.D. in Botany from the National Botanical Research Institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Lucknow, India. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Stockholm and the University of Turku.

Teaching and Research

I am an enthusiastic instructor of several biology courses in the Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology and aim to provide an invaluable learning experience to the undergraduate students. My teaching research interests are focused on integrating student-centered pedagogy with current techniques of biological research into classrooms. I would like to develop tools to assess the effect of such integration on student learning and retention.

I also have several years of research experience and am profoundly interested in translating into hands-on, authentic research experience for undergraduate students to enable critical thinking, reflection and problem solving.  My current research interest is in vertebrate development using zebrafish as a model with state-of-the-art CRISPR-Cas9 to generate mutations and study their effects on development and disease. In the past, i have worked extensively to understand the role of unfolded protein response (UPR) in mitigating abiotic stress in Arabidopsis and maize.

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=D_xK3KUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Courses that I teach/have taught

• Biol 2120 (Principles of Biology II) in person and online
• Biol 4230L (Developmental Biology Laboratory)
• Biol 3140 (Principles of Molecular Cell Biology) online
• Biol 4910 (Undergraduate Teaching Experience)
• Biol 1550 (Human Biology)
• Biol 2120L (Principles of Biology Laboratory II)
• Biol/WGS 3070 (Women in Science and Engineering) 

What else do I do?

I read scientific and popular articles, am fond of music, watch cinema and documentaries from around the world, love to travel, am regular at yoga, badminton, and pickleball, and am well-connected to society.