M. Sc., Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
School of Applied Sciences
 
Department: ZOOLOGY
Phone: +91-8456006738
 

About Me

I have completed my master degree (M. Sc.) from School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University, Odisha, India and been awarded with DST-INSPIRE fellowship (Govt. of India) for pursuing Ph D. I have about eight years of academic experience. My focused research area includes "molecular breeding & crop improvement", and "natural products & therapeutics". I have good number of research publications in various journals of national and international reputes. I have reviewed a number of papers as reviewer for a number of national and international journals and serving as life member of the Indian Society of Plant Breeders, and World Researchers Associations. I am also acting as an editorial board member of the Indian Journal of Plant and Soil.

 
Research Fields

  • Molecular breeding & crop improvement
  • Natural products & therapeutics
Teaching

  • Molecular Biology
  • Animal Biotechnology
  • Cell Biology
  • Microbiology

Expertise

  • Extraction and purification of nucleic acids and proteins
  • Electrophoresis of nucleic acids and proteins
  • DNA Marker analysis
  • Genotyping of mapping populations
  • Linkage mapping
  • RT PCR and expression studies
  • Plant tissue culture techniques
  • Cytology and Microbial techniques
  • Computational tools: SPSS; Total Lab 120; Free-Tree; Tree-View; NTSYS-PC; Structure; GenAlex; BLAST; PRIMER 3.0; MEGA; BioVia-DS

Interests

  • Stress resistant crop development
  • Drug discovery