Beena Pillai, PhD

Director
Bucky ball mRNA is responsive to the total RNA content in the fertilized zebrafish oocyte.

Divya Chaubey, Dheeraj Chandra Joshi, Sanovar Dayal, Shweta Verma, Chetana Sachidanandan, Beena Pillai*. (2026)

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications    DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2026.153328

A comprehensive analysis of the inherited lncRNA and circRNA repertoire of zebrafish.

Joshi Dheeraj, Kadam Aakanksha, Sachidanandan Chetana, Pillai Beena*. (2025)

Bioinformatics Advances    2025 Jun 12;5(1):vbaf139

Noncoding RNAs: Emerging regulators of behavioral complexity.

Dayal Sanovar, Chaubey Divya, Joshi Dheeraj, Ranmale Samruddhi , Pillai Beena*. (2024)

Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA    2024 15 (3), e1847

A novel antisense lncRNA, ARBAG harboring an RNA destabilizing GWAS variant for C-peptide dictates the transcript isoforms of GABRA6 in cerebellum

Bandesh K, Pal M, Balakrishnan A, Gautam P, Jha P, Tandon N, Pillai B*, Bharadwaj D (2023)

Human Molecular Genetics    2023 Sep 16;32(19):2929-2939.
*Co-Communicating Author

A Novel Cis-Regulatory lncRNA, Kalnc2, Downregulates Kalrn Protein-Coding Transcripts in Mouse Neuronal Cells.

Pal Muneesh, Chaubey Divya, Tanwar Mohit, Pillai Beena*. (2023)

Noncoding RNA    2023 Jan 13;9(1).

Chapters in Book / Text

  1. Dheeraj Chandra Joshi, Surendra Singh Patel, Beena Pillai, Transcriptome Profiling, Spatial Transcriptomics, 2022, 1 st ed., Chap. 7 (ISBN 978-0-323-91810-7)
  2. Beena Pillai and Mayuresh Sarangdhar, "MicroRNA: Perspectives in Health and Diseases" (2017) ed. J. Paul and R. Muthuswamy, in press, CRC press Taylor and Francis group, 2017
  3. Beena Pillai, "Non-coding RNA" in Gene and its Engineering, (2015) ed. H. K. Das, Wiley Publications
  4. Mitali Mukerji, Beena Pillai, Somdatta Sinha& S. K. Brahmachari. Textbook of Biotechnology, (2005) ed. H. K. Das, Wiley Publications, Specific contribution: Contributed the section titled "Functional genomics using Microarray Technology". Currently in the 5th ed.