Girdhar Pandey

EDUCATION:

B.Sc. (Hon.) Biochemistry, Delhi University

M.Sc. Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University

Ph.D. , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Post-doc, University of California at Berkeley, California

CONTACT ME

EMAIL: giridhar98@gmail.com

gkpandey@south.du.ac.in

PHONE: 011-24116615

MOBILE: +919811721436

Research Area of Interest

Calcium mediated signaling under abiotic and biotic stress

My group is studying the role of several downstream components in calcium signaling, which might be working in concert with calcium sensors/relay, and ultimately acting as effectors in modulating a response either by change in gene expression or direct physiological regulation. Some of the key players we are extensively investigating are calcium sensors, kinases, phosphatases, transcription factors and transporters/channels to understand the calcium signaling mechanism in plants.

In near future, I wanted to investigate the detail mechanistic interplay and cross talk of different signaling cascades with calcium signaling network in Arabidopsis and rice model system under different stress conditions. The interaction of several pathways to converge and diverge at some points will be investigated by using the advanced tools of functional genomics and proteomics where several networks can be mapped collectively as “Signaling Interactome under Stress Conditions”.

AFFILIATIONS:

1. Indian Society of Plant Physiology

2. Society of Biological Chemist, India

3. Indian Society of Cell Biology

4. American Society for Plant Biologists (ASPB), USA

5. California Academy of Sciences

6. New York Academy of Sciences

AWARDS/HONORS:

• • 1. Elected Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), New Delhi, India (2018).

    2. Visiting Professor at Salt-Soil Agricultural Center, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China (2017).

    3. Foerign Expert award, Institute of Agri-Biotechnology and Salt-Soil Agricultural Center, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China (2017).

    4. Visiting Professor at Institute of AgriBiotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China (2016).

    5. Elected Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India (2016).

    6. National Bioscience Career Development Award, DBT, India (2015).

    7. Visiting Professor at Institute of AgriBiotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China (2015).

    8. Visiting Professor at College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China (October 2012-Dec 2012).

    9. DBT-CREST award 2010-211 Award, One year Visiting Scholar/Visiting Professor at the Department of Plant Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA (Visiting Professor from March 2012-March 2013).

    10. INSA Bilateral Scientist Exchange Fellowship to visit Prof. Joerg Kudla’s lab for three months (June-August, 2011) at Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Schlossgarten 3, Wilhem WestFelisch University, Münster, Germany (Short term INSA-DFG scholar).

    11. Awarded Far Eastern Regional Research Organisation (FERRO) fellowship to work at BARC, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD in 1998 with Dr. Autar K. Mattoo.

• • • EDITORIAL BOARD

• • 1. Editorial Board member, Scientific Reports, NPG

    2. Academic Editor of PLoS One

    3. Associate Editor, Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

    4. Editorial Board member of Plant Signaling and Behavior

    5. Editorial Board member of Current Biotechnology

    6. Editorial Board member of Current Genomics

    7. Editor, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plant

    8. Associate Editor, Dataset in Science

    9. Associate Editor, Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering

    10. Editorial Board member, Journal of Molecular Biology and Molecular Imaging