Current Genomics

Aurora Díaz graduated in Biochemistry with a Distinction with Honors in 1999. She obtained the European Ph.D. in Genetic Breeding and Engineering at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She completed a postdoctoral stay at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Cambridge, UK) working on genetics and molecular biology in cereals. Currently, she holds tenure as Agricultural Researcher in the Horticulture Department at Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon (CITA) and AgriFood Institute of Aragon (IA2), Spain. She is currently leading two projects aimed at the biofortification of lettuce as a way of improving its nutritional value, using analytical, genetic, genomic, and biotechnological tools. She has participated in more than 20 research projects, produced 46 publications, 28 contributions to congresses, and 5 to scientific workshops.

Dr Jagajjit Sahu is currently working as a Domain Expert in Manav - Human Atlas Initiative at National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India. His primary area of expertise is Bioinformatics, especially in the field of genomics and data science. His research interests focus around the improvement and development of genomics approaches. He obtained his Ph.D. from Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, India and post-doctoral research experiences from University of Aberdeen, Banaras Hindu University, and Assam Agricultural University. Dr Sahu has a background in Mathematics, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. Having more than 9 years of experience, he has been able to publish 27 research articles and a few book chapters. He has presented his research at several international conferences and been acted as a resource person in many workshops.

Professor Harikesh Bahadur Singh has served as Professor & Head, Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology at Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. His major research focus is on bioinnoculats, biological control of plant pathogens and nano-biotechnology. Professor Singh has been decorated with several prestigious National awards and honours for his scientific contributions in the field of organic farming and translational agriculture, notable being CSIR Technology Prize for Biological Sciences by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, M.S. Swaminathan award by Society for Plant Research, Vigyan Bharti Award, Prof. V.P. Bhide Memorial Award, Society for Plant Research, and many more. He has been able to add more than 300 publications and 20 U.S. patents to his credit which have been successfully transferred for commercialization.

Dr. Anukool Vaishnav is a Principal Investigator in SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) at Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He obtained his master degree in Biotechnology from University of Rajasthan and Ph.D. in Science (Agri. Microbiology) from Mody University of Science & Technology. He also qualified CSIR- NET (Life science) and ICAR- NET (Agriculture Biotechnology). He has 7 years of research experience in plant-microbe interaction field. His research is mainly focuses on microbial mediated plant protection against biotic and abiotic stress, characterization of signaling molecules and secondary metabolites (soluble and VOCs) in plant holobionts. As an active researcher, he has published more than 30 research and review articles along with several book chapters for reputed journals and edited books. He has filed 9 Indian patents in association with his research group. He has received several awards including best poster award and Young Scientist Award from reputed societies.

Cheng Yang obtained his PhD in 2013 from Fudan University, where he studied the kidney transplantation. During the PhD studying, he visited Prof. Michael Nicholson's lab in Leicester University in UK. After graduation, he focuses on the role of immune system in acute and chronic renal injury, as well as new prevention and treatment strategies. He published more than 40 peer- reviewed papers with over 490 times citations. Cheng Yang received seven awards from American Society of Transplantation and The Transplantation Society from 2012-2018. He is working in Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University.