Qualifications
:Ph.D., Biotechnology and Molecular Biology,
Thesis entitled “Identification and Manipulation of Rhizobial strains and genes for Polyhydroxybutyric acid production”
:MSc. Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
Thesis entitled “Improvement of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv trifolii for Hydrolytic enzyme activity.”
Experience
• 2010 –Present :Assistant Professor – Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida
• 2007-2010 : Assistant Professor – IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad
• 2006-2007 : Lecturer – Lovely Professional University, Punjab
Current Courses Taught
• Molecular Biology
• Recombinant DNA Technology
• Immunology
• Industrial Biotechnology
Research Interests
• Microbial Genetics : Studies on genes of industrially and pharmaceutically important microbial strains.
• Industrial Biotechnology: Bio prospecting of micro organisms in view of isolation of commercially important novel microbial strains.Production and up-scaling of various economically important metabolites including Bio polymers, nano biopolymers, bio-ethanol, enzymes and pharmacologicaly important compounds.
• Microbial Biotechnology: Studies and engineering of industrially, medically and pharmacologicaly important microbial genes and strains.
Teaching Interests
• Molecular Biology
• Recombinant DNA Technology
• Immunology
• Human pathology
• Industrial Biotechnology
• Bacterial and viral Genetics
• Intermediatory Metabolism
Professional Affiliations
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American society of Microbiology (ASM)
• Association for the promotion of DNA Fingerprinting and other DNA Technologies (ADNAT)
• Association of Microbiologist of India (AMI)
Professional Activities
• Lab In-charge Molecular Genetics Research Lab
• Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (ISSN No.2446 0302) published by Academy Publication Inc., USA.
• Member of FIST committee
• Faculty Coordinator for weak students
• UGC coordinator
• IQAC Member
Other Achievements
• Selected as American Society of Microbiology's science teaching fellow (2014-2015)
• Poster Judge: Will be attending Annual meeting of AAAS (2015) in San Jose, California as Poster Judge, 12-16 Feb., 2015
• PhD Gold medalist for best PhD research
• Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in 2007
Contact Information
Amity Institute of Biotechnology (AIB)
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, J3 Block, 102 Molecular Genetics Research Lab, Faculty Cabin : 313, 3rd Floor, AUUP (Noida)