Prof. K. Vijayraghavan

Prof. K. Vijayraghavan is the Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore India. His main interests are in the area of the formation of the adult indirect flight muscles and also the patterning of other adult tissues, the nervous system and the wing blade in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Prof. Vijayraghavan's pre-doctoral studies were at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and doctoral work at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India and post-doctoral work at California Institute of Technology, USA.