Raja Payyavula
Group Lead Principal Scientist II at Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRaja Payyavula is a Group Lead and Principal Scientist with over eight years of leadership in agricultural crop biotechnology, combining a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology with hands-on expertise in CRISPR genome editing, plant transformation, and NGS-driven edit analysis. He has led pipelines for Agrobacterium and gene-gun transformation, selection-free editing strategies, and metabolic engineering of phenolics, alkaloids and sugar transport pathways, resulting in 15 peer-reviewed publications. Raja’s work spans both fundamental research—studying flowering, bundle sheath development, and cell wall remodeling—and applied solutions for crop improvement and biofuel feedstock optimization. Based in Richmond, VA, he bridges wet-lab mastery with computational skills (Python, SQL, Java) that support high-throughput data analysis and metagenomics projects. Colleagues know him for translating complex genetic tools into scalable lab workflows that accelerate trait development.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology at Michigan Technological UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Plant Sciences, A, Master of Science - MS, Plant Sciences, A at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical UniversityBachelor's degree, Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences, 8.5/10, Bachelor's degree, Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences, 8.5/10 at Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University
Github Skills (66)
javascript9
treemap9
relic9
jest-serializer9
ava9
imports9
plugin9
webpack-plugin9
rainbow9
libsass9
node-sass9
chai9
webpack-loader9
eslint-plugin9
traversal9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RamyaPayyavula/Dolus_DDos
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:157 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
RamyaPayyavula/LeetCode
Sep 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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