Faculty & Staff Profile

Venugopal Mukku
Associated Majors
Courses Currently Teaching
CHEM 2302-001: Organic Chemistry II
CHEM 2302-002: Organic Chemistry II
CHEM 2311-001: Organic Chemistry Lab II
Research Interests
Using Plants for Fighting Illness (U of M Driven to Discover)
Natural Products Laboratory - research focuses on the bioactive secondary metabolites from plants.
Antibiotic Research (Valley News Live Report - March 31, 2016)
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the strains of S. aureus that is resistant to multiple antibiotics. Currently MRSA is susceptible to only a few antibiotics such as the glycopeptides vancomycin. I am interested in discovering chemicals from plants of the Red River Valley that exhibit potent activity against this particular strain.
Awards, Distinctions, and Honors
1999: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Bonn , Germany
1991: Research fellowship by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi , India
1990: Gold medal by Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher learning, Prasanthi Nilayam , India
Selected Publications
Anjaneyulu A.S.R., Rao V.L., Sastry, V.G., Venugopal M.J.R.V ., Schmitz, F.J. (2003). Juncins I-M, five new briarane diterpenoids from the Indian Ocean gorgonian Junceella juncea Pallas. J. Nat. Prod ., 66:507-510.
George R. Pettit, Jiang Du, Robin K. Pettit, Linda A. Richert, Fiona Hogan, Venugopal J. R. V. Mukku, Michael S. Hoard (2006). Antineoplastic Agents. 554. The Manitoba bacterium Streptomyces sp . J. Nat. Prod. , 69:804-806.
George R. Pettit, Venugopal J. R. V. Mukku, Gordon Cragg, Delbert L. Herald, John C. Knight, Cherry L. Herald, Jean-Charles Chapuis (2008). Antineoplastic agents. 558. Ampelocissus sp. cancer cell growth inhibitory constituents. J. Nat. Prod. , 71:130-133
Educational Background
B. Sc (1988) Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, India
M.Sc. (1990) Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, India
Ph.D. (1995) Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
Professional Memberships
Local Community Memberships
Biography
Ceremony for the 2019 Award for Global Engagement. Remarks given by John Hoffman, vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the University of Minnesota Crookston, about Venugopal Mukku, an associate professor in the department of math, science, and technology at UMC. For more information: https://global.umn.edu/awards/age