Research outputs

Awards and Honours:

1. “Excellent Scholar Award” by XIX International Botanical Congress (IBC-2017), Shenzhen, China.- Dr. Deepak Kumar

2. “Certificate of Excellence, 2017” by Academy of Plant Sciences, India for outstanding contribution in the field of Plant Stress Physiology, Metabolic Engineering, Functional Genomics and Plant Tissue Culture.- Dr. Deepak Kumar

3. “Young Scientist Award 2017” by Scientific Planet Society, Dehradun for outstanding contribution in the field of Genetic Manipulation of Plants for Stress Alleviation and Value Addition.-Dr. Deepak Kumar

4. Received Dr. M. J. Thirumalachar Young Scientist Award-2017 in the 3 days National Conference on Fungal Biology: Recent Trends and Future Prospects & 44th Annual Meeting of Mycological Society of India organized by the Botany Department, Jammu University in collaboration with the Mycological Society of India. – Dr. Deepak Bhardwaj

5. Received the gold medal for the award of APSI best paper presentation award-2017 for the paper presented on the Role of abiotic stress alleviation in plant.- Dr. Deepak Bhardwaj

6. APSI Smt. Rama Devi Award” for contribution in Plant Biotechnology (2017, Academy of Plant Sciences, India)- Dr. Vikas Srivastava

Ongoing R&D Projects

1. Study of synergistic effect of dietary molecules/ nutraceutical(s) in combination with clinically validated cancer chemotherapeutic agents. Sponsored by UGC. Principal Investigator –Dr. Samantha Vaishnavi

2. Investigation of heat shock factor gene family (BvHSFs) in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) and their relevance in response to Heat Stress. Sponsored by UGC. Principal Investigator - Dr. Vikas Srivastava

3. Understanding the Mechanism of Phytohormone(s) on Growth and Metabolism of Potato under High Salinity Stress. Sponsored by UGC. Principal Investigator -    Dr. Deepak Kumar.

4. Unraveling the role of Calmodulin, a calcium dependent protein in potato. Sponsored by DST. Principal Investigator - Dr. Deepak Kumar.