Service

Service to the broader scientific community

Editorial Board

1. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation (Associate Editor)

Peer-Judging

1. Judge for talks/posters in the Agriculture & Plant Sciences division of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting 2024

2. Peer-Judge for section 3A in the American Society of Plant Biologists (Southern Section) Virtual Meeting 2021.

3. Graduate student oral and poster competition in C02 (Crop physiology and metabolism division) at the Crop science society of America annual meeting 2020

Book Chapter Review

1. Ecology in a Changing World (First Edition; Publisher: W.W Norton & Company)

Journal Ad-hoc Reviewer

1. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

2. Crop and Pasture Science

3. Crop Science

4. European Journal of Agronomy

5. Frontiers in Agronomy

6. Horticultural Plant Journal

7. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant

8. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation

9. Plant and Soil

10. Plant Cell Reports

11. Plant Direct

12. Plant Gene

13. Plant Growth Regulation

14. Plant Signaling & Behavior

15. Protoplasma

16. Scientific Reports

17. South African Journal of Botany

18. The Crop Journal

19. Tropical Plant Biology

University service

1. Faculty Advisor for TriBeta Biological Honor Society at Delta State University (Since 2023).

2. Faculty mentor for Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation (LSMAMP) at Delta State University (Since 2023).

3.  Judge for the 2022 Fall Student Conference at Texas A&M International University.

4. Faculty mentor for TRiO Programs at the Texas A&M International University (From Fall 2022 onwards).

5. Judge for the Future Farmers of America (Texas Branch) conference hosted by the School of Agricultural Sciences at Sam Houston State University in 2022.

6. Undergraduate research mentoring for minority groups in STEM fields through LS- LAMP/McNair program at University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2014 – 2020)

7. Judge for Louisiana Region 6 Science and Engineering Fair (2014, 2017 and 2018).

8. Judge for Louisiana Region 2 Science Olympiad (2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018)

Departmental service

1. Biology Curriculum Committee Fall 2023 onwards

2. Science day workshop at University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2015, 2016 and 2017).

3. Committee member for Biology Graduate Student Symposium at University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2013).

K-12 Outreach

1. Organized workshop for middle school students through Upward Bound Maths and Science Program at University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the year 2014 (DNA extraction), 2017 (Plant tissue culture), 2018 (Phase contrast microscopy) and 2019 (Seed imbibition and light microscopy)

2. Organized one day workshop for middle school students participating in summer camp through SMILE Community Action Agency, Lafayette, Louisiana, 2017 (Safety in a research laboratory and controlling aphids in crop plants)