Pharmacognosy & Metabolic Engineering

Lectures

week-01

1. Lecture 01: Pharmacognosy & Medicinal Plants Video
2. Lecture 02:Plant Specialized Metabolites: Waste Products or Ecochemicals? Video
3. Lecture 03: Evolution of Specialized Metabolism from Primary Metabolism Video
4. Lecture 04: Production of specialized metabolites through cell and organ culture Video
5. Lecture 05:Eliciting specialized metabolism in culture Video

week-02

6. Lecture 6: Analysis of Specialized Metabolites – Tools and Techniques Video
7. Lecture 7:Metabolic phytochemistry-based approaches for studying plant specialized metabolism Video
8. Lecture 8: Metabolic engineering strategies in plants Video
9. Lecture 9: Plant genetic transformation (through natural genetic engineer) Video
10. Lecture 10: Design of vectors for Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer; Transformed and co-...... Video

week-03

11. Lecture 11: Introduction to alkaloids Video
12. Lecrture 12: Biosynthesis of tropane alkaloids Video
13. Lecrure 13: Engineering tropane alkaloid pathways in plants - I Video
14. Lecture 14:Engineering tropane alkaloid pathway in plants – IIEngineering tropane alkaloid pathway.. Video
15. Lecture 15: Isoquinoline alkaloids – biosynthesis and tissue localization Video

week-04

16. Lecture 16:Isoquinoline alkaloids – late steps of biosynthetic pathway & tissue localization Video
17. Lecture 17:Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids – Induced top1 mutant & natural T mutantEngineering.... Video
18. Lecgture 18:Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids – Metabolic pathway engineering Video
19. Lecture 19: RNAi-mediated replacement of morphine with nornarcotic alkaloid reticuline in opium.. Video
20. Lecture 20:Isoquinoline alkaloids – biosynthesis and tissue localization Video

week-05

21. Lecture 21:Indole alkaloids – Early steps of biosynthesis Video
22. Lecture 22:Indole alkaloids – Metabolic engineering of early steps of indole alkaloid pathway Video
23. Lecture 23:Indole alkaloids – Environmental factors regulating indole alkaloid biosynthesis Video
24. Lecture 24:Indole alkaloids – Role of elicitors in modulating alkaloids accumulation Video
25. Lecture 25:Indole alkaloids – Late steps of indole alkaloid biosynthesis Video
26. Lecture 26: Indole alkaloids – Regulatory roles of transcription factors in light-induced...... Video

week-06

27. Lecture 27:Engineering indole alkaloid pathways in Catharanthus roseus hairy root cultures Video
28. Lecture 28:Missing enzymes of vindoline biosynthetic pathway Video
29. Lecture 29:Monoterpene indole alkaloid pathway cell and tissue localization Video
30. Lecture 30: Model for biosynthesis and secretion of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids involving.... Video
31. Lecture 31:Metabolic reprogramming of periwinkle plant culture Video

week-07

32. Lecture 32: Engineered yeast brews precursors of anticancer drug vinblastine Video
33. Lecture 33: Recent discovery of strychnine biosynthetic pathway Video
34. Lecture 34: Indole alkaloid biosynthesis – a final overview Video
35. Lecture 35: Recent discovery of colchicine biosynthetic pathway Video

week-08

36. Lecture 36: Biosynthesis of terpenoids – an outline Video
37. Lecture 37: Diversity of monoterpenoids Video
38. Lecture 38: Biosynthesis of monoterpenoids Video
39. Lecture 39: Diversity of sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, triterpenes and polyterpenes Video
40. Lecture 40: Oleoresins and polyterpenes – an outline Video
41. Lecture 41: Monoterpenoids as components of floral scent volatiles: Metabolic engineering of...... Video

week-09

42. Lecture 42: Biosynthesis of carotenoids and carotenoid cleavage products Video
43. Lecture 43: Metabolic engineering of carotenoid pathway Video
44. Lecture 44: Metabolic engineering of carotenoid pathway: Golden Rice Story Video
45. Lecture 45: Menthol story: Biosynthesis and pathway manipulation I Video
46. Lecture 46: Menthol story: Biosynthesis and pathway manipulation II Video
47. Lecture 47: Artemisinin, hyperforin and taxol – three promising candidates for biotechnological... Video

week-10

48. Lecture 48:Phenolics: Origin via shikimate pathway Video
49. Lecture 49:Phenolics: Phenylpropanoids, benzenoids, coumarins, tannins Video
50. Lecture 50: Phenolics: Monolignols, lignins and lignans Video
51. Lecture 51: Phenolics: Metabolic engineering of monolignol pathways Video
52. Lecture 52: Phenolics: Biosynthesis of lignans & podophyllotoxin; Caffeic acid esters... Video

week-11

53. Lecture 53: Phenolics: Flavonoids, Flavones, Isoflavonoids, Proanthocyanidins Video
54. Lecture 54: Phenolics: Biosynthesis of anthocyanins; Metabolic pathway engineering for enhance.... Video
55. Lecture 55: Phenolics: Metabolic engineering of anthocyanin pathways in flowers Video
56. Lecture 56: Phenolics: Alcohol acetyl transferses and volatile phenolics Video
57. Lecture 57: Phenolics: Biosynthesis of volatile benzenoids Video

week-12

58. Lecture 58: Phenolics: Biosynthesis of vanillin in plants Video
59. Lecture 59: Phenolics: Metabolic engineering for vanillin Video
60. Lecture 60: Phenolics: Biosynthesis of shikonin Video
61. Lecture 61: Phenolics: Metabolic engineering of shikonin pathway Video
62. Lecture 62: Molecular Pharming: Transplastomic plants Video
63. Lecture 63: Molecular Pharming: production of human somatotropin in tobacco Video

Live Session

64. Live Session 29-02-2024 Video
65. Live Session 12-04-2024 Video
66. Live Session 04-03-2025 Video