Dr. Ashutosh Sharma
His main areas of specialization are Plant-microbe interaction, Plant Biotechnology and Stress biology. He has qualified GATE Life Science (Percentile score 99.18, All India Rank 103), CSIR-UGC NET-LS, CSIR-UGC-NET-JRF and ICAR-NET. He has received his PhD degree in accordance with UGC 2009 regulations. He has more than 45 publications (research papers, review articles and book chapters) and in in the Journals/Books of the International repute. Some of them to mention are Biotechnology Advances (IF 17.681), Journal of Pest Science (IF 5.742), Journal of Applied Microbiology (4.059), Plant and Soil (4.99) and Frontiers in Microbiology (6.064) etc. He is also the recipient of Young Scientist Award by Punjab Academy of Sciences for his work entitled ‘Development of a sensitive PCR based detection method of Alternaria alternata infecting Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal, a high value medicinal plant and its possible use in quality control of herbal drugs thereof’. He has three GenBank nucleotide sequence contributions and three MTCC microbial type culture collection contributions to his credit. He has participated in many national and International conferences and has more than 8 years of teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has received two major research project grants from DST-SERB, Govt of India and CSIR, Govt. of India as Co-Principal Investigator and a minor research project grant funded by DAV college management committee as the Principal Investigator. One of his research proposal entitled ‘Transcriptome based differential gene expression analysis of salt responsive genes in salt stress treated and control horsegram seedlings’ was short listed for assistance by 2017 SGRF genomics project grant (http://www.sgrf.org/grants.php).