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Ajar Anupam Pradhan

Prime Minister's Research Fellow

Merged confocal image of proHY5 : GFP: HY5 (DAPI Stained), showing its localization in plant root tip

Ajar Presenting his poster to Dr. Amit Singh at IISER TVM Frontier Symposium in Biology (FS-BIO 2022).

● Received the “Best Poster” award in “IISER TVM Frontier Symposium in Biology (FS-BIO 2022)”.

Hi, Welcome to my webpage!!

About Me:

I Ajar Anupam Pradhan , a third-year Ph.D. scholar pursuing my research in Plant Cell and Developmental Biology Lab at the Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal. I received Prime Minister's Research Fellowship in December 2020 cycle. I am working under the supervision of Dr. Sourav Datta.

Current Academic affiliation:

Ph.D. Research Scholar (Dec 2019- continuing), Plant Cell and Developmental Biology lab, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Bhopal .

Academic Background:

M.Sc. in Botany (2017-2019) from P.G. Department of Botany, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Obtained 88.33% (CGPA:9.6 /10), University rank – 4, Division -First .
B.Sc. in Botany (Hons.) with zoology and Chemistry (2014-2017) from BJB Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (Affiliated to Utkal University). Obtained 76.83%, Institute rank-1, Division -First .

Research Objective :

We are working on plant development and photomorphogenesis with the aim to study how light signaling can regulate plant development specifically under different monochromatic lights how plants optimize their developmental process. We are interested to investigate how the different light signal-specific morphogenesis in plants can help them provide stress tolerance.

Research Experiences:

Junior Research Fellow (2019): Served as a JRF at ICAR-NRRI, under the project entitled “SPDT Transporter based identification of low phosphorous/phytate rice (Oryza sativa L.) to reduce the removal of phosphorous from soil and eutrophication of waterways”.
M.Sc. Thesis (2019): I have completed a dissertation project work entitled ‘The Detection, cloning, and sequencing of GIGANTEA gene in different cultivars of edible banana (Musa acuminata L.) of Odisha’.
Internship (2018)-: Selected in IASc.-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellowship to work under Prof. Anil Grover, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Delhi University, South Campus, New Delhi.

Research statement:

(Brief description of research work done in last one year):

Research Statement 2022_sd.docx

Curriculum Vitae:

CV FOR PMRF 2.docx

PhD coursework details:

BIO604 Molecular Biology,
BIO622 Bioinformatics.
BIO614 Plant Biology-II.
BIO612 Recombinant DNA technology.
ECO600 Law Relating to Intellectual Property and Patents (Compulsory).
Obtained CPI-9.5/10

Conferences attended:

Participated in IISER TVM Frontier Symposium in Biology (FS-BIO 2022), organised during 29^th April, 2022- 01^st May, 2022.
“Genomics to Phenomics : A new Horizon in Plant Science Research” Organized by University of Calcutta on 1^st March 2021.
Indo-UK symposium on Fluxomics of microbe and Plant Systems (FluxMAPS 2021) held on March 24-25, 2021. Organised by IIT-Mandi.

Awards and Achievements :

Received the Best Poster award in “IISER TVM Frontier Symposium in Biology (FS-BIO 2022)”.
Received Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship, December 2020 cycle. Donor: Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India.
Qualified GATE-2019.
Qualified CSIR-JRF with 63^rdrank in the DEC-2018 session.
IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellowship Programme-2018.
Qualified the P.G. Scholarship Test held by Institute of Mathematics and Application, Odisha- 2018.
UGC P.G. Merit Scholarship for University Rank holders-2017.

Supervisor's Information :

Dr Sourav Datta,

Associate Professor,

Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Bhopal

Our lab is interested in the cellular and molecular aspects of development in plants. We study the interaction of plants with the environmental factors that regulate growth and development both above and below the ground. More information about our lab can be found on our group Home page.

Contact Details:

Email: sdatta@iiserb.ac.in

Telephone- +91-755-269-1419

Publications:

“The role of solute transporters in aluminum toxicity and tolerance”. Debojyoti Kar, Ajar Anupam Pradhan, Sourav Datta, Physiologia Plantarum, Volume 171, Issue 4 p. 638-652. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13214 (2021)
"The Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) Family in Plants and Their Significance in Metal Transport". Debojyoti Kar, Ajar Anupam Pradhan, Arka Dutta, Lavanya Bhagavatula & Sourav Datta; Plant Metal and Metalloid Transporters. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6103-8_8. (2022)

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Contact Details:

E-mail- ajar19@iiserb.ac.in.
Cell- (+91)-7008623661.
Address- Lab 319, Academic Building 3, IISER Bhopal, Bhauri, M.P., India - 462066.

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