JNCASR
Jakkur, Bangalore 560 064, India
Phone: +91-80-22082788
Fax: +91-80-22082767
E-mail: mkc@jncasr.ac.in
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Professor JNCASR Jakkur, Bangalore 560 064, India Phone: +91-80-22082788 Fax: +91-80-22082767 E-mail: mkc@jncasr.ac.in |
Prof. MKC (foundly known as) is presently JNCASR PROFESSOR & CHAIRMAN Evolutionary & Organismal Biology Unit and ASTRAZENECA RESEARCH PROFESSOR (1996-2002). He has held various positions during his illustrious carreer, which includes CHAIRMAN Syndicate Committee (ACTING VICE-CHANCELLOR) (1996), PROFESSOR & HEAD, Department of Animal Behaviour & Physiology (First University Chair in India) (1985-96) of Madurai Kamaraja University (MKU). He has won SS BHATNAGAR PRIZE, Sir J C BOSE PRIZE (UGC) and ASCHOFF's RULE (MUNICH-First Recepient in 1991). He is a member of various Academies and Societies including IASc and INSA(vice-president). He was both DAAD and Alexander von HUMBOLDT Scholar. He got his D.Sc from MKU (1985), Ph.D. from Madras University (1964), M.Sc(1960) and B.Sc.(1958) from PRESIDENCY COLLEGE, MADRAS UNIVERSITY.
Chronobiology
Animal Behaviour
Human Circadian Rhythms
Persistent tidal and diurnal rhythms of locomotor activity and oxygen consumption in Emerita asiatica (M-Edw), 1. Chandrashekaran M K , Z vergl Physiol, 5, 137, 1965
Possible "dawn" and "dusk" roles of light pulses shifting the phase of a circadian rhythm, 2. Chandrashekaran M K , J Comp Physiol A, 82, 347, 1973
Cycles of presence and absence of mother mouse entrain the circadian clocks of pups, 3. Viswanathan N and Chandrashekaran M K, Nature (London), 317, 530, 1985
Circadian rhythms, menstrual cycles and time sense in humans under social isolation, 4. Chandrashekaran M K , In: Evolution of Circadian Clocks (Ed.) T Hiroshige and K Honma, Hokaido University Press, Sapporo, Japan, , p 263, 1994
Probing the circadian pacemaker of a mouse using two light pulses, 5. Sharma V K and Chandrashekaran M K , J Biol Rhythms, 15, 67, 2000