Prasad Parchuri
Prasad Parchuri was at the KLRC from August 2018 to May 2019 as a Fulbright Nehru Scholar. His home institution is CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru, Karnataka, India, where is currently completing his Ph.D. At the KLRC, he worked on characterizing the lipidome of developing seeds of Buglossides arvensis by using mass spectrometry–based lipid analysis. The long term goal is developing a sustainable B. arvensis crop, which not only provides an alternate nutritionally superior vegetarian source of omega-3 to the Indian population, but also benefits farmers. Currently, he is a postdoc at WSU and working on understanding plant lipids better.