Sarat Chandra Yenisetti
Dr. Sarat Chandra Yenisetti is a professor in the Department of Zoology, Nagaland University (A Central University), India. He received post-doctoral training in neurogenetics from the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, and the University of Regensburg, Germany. Dr. Yenisetti’s Drosophila Neurobiology Laboratory (DNBL) follows Drosophila approaches to understand dopaminergic neurodegeneration and identify therapeutic targets for neuroprotection, knowledge of which will help to reduce the burden of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in humans. His laboratory developed adult-life, phase-specific Drosophila models of PD and demonstrated their importance in understanding the pathophysiology of late-onset neurodegenerative disease (NDD). It also further proved that deciphering the age-mediated regulation of brain-specific molecular networks is essential to screen small molecules/nutraceuticals/drugs with potential neuroprotective efficacy and develop/modulate the therapeutic approaches for late-onset NDDs such as PD.