List of PhD degree completed
As supervisor
- Dr. Lakhmir Singh (2006) Molecular Characterization and intermolecular interactions of the coat protein of Chrysanthemum virus B carlavirus infecting Chrysanthemum; GNDU, Amritsar/CSIR-IHBT; Botany
Working as Associate Prof. DAV University Jalandhar
- Dr. Yogesh Kumar (2011) Genome Organization and Mechanism of RNA Silencing Suppression of Begomoviruses Infecting Some Solanaceous Crops; GNDU Amritsar; Biotechnology
Working as Prof. Central university of Jammu
- Dr. Salik Noorani Khan (2012) Molecular Characterization and Diagnostic Development of Viruses Infecting Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.) in Western Himalaya; Jamia Hamdard New Delhi; Botany
Working as Asstt. Prof. Jamia Hamdard
- Dr. Yashika Walia (2015) Apple scar skin viroid: Infectivity and identification of interacting protein, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR); Biological sciences
Working as Asstt. Prof. Maharish Markandeshawar University, Mullana, Ambala
- Dr. Sunny Dhir (2016) Complete Genome Characterization and Infectivity Analyses of Apple stem pitting and Apple stem grooving viruses Infecting Apple; AcSIR; Biological sciences
Working as Asstt. Prof. Maharish Markandeshawar University, Mullana, Ambala
- Dr. Prachi Awasthi (2016) Molecular characterization and development of diagnostics for Cherry necrotic rusty mottle virus; AcSIR; Biological sciences
- Dr. Pooja Bhardwaj (2016) Molecular Characterization and Development of Diagnostics for Apple stem grooving virus; AcSIR; Biological sciences
- Dr. Reenu Kumari (2016) Understanding Molecular Basis of Cucumber Mosaic Virus Movement in Plants; GNDU;
Working as Asstt, Prof. Dr YS Parmar Universuty of Hort and Forestry, HP
- Dr. Rahul Mohan Singh (2017) Expression analysis and identification of host factor(s) associating with movement protein of Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus; AcSIR; Biological sciences
Project scientist-II at CSIR-IHBT
- Dr. Poonam Roshan (2017) Functional Characterization of AV2 protein of tomato leaf curl Palampur virus; AcSIR; Biological sciences
Postdoctoral researcher, St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Dr. Aditya Kulshreshtha (2017) Functional Characterization of AC4 protein of tomato leaf curl Palampur virus; AcSIR; Biological sciences
Postdoctoral Researcher, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, USA
- Dr. Surender Kumar (2017) Virome Study of Pigeonpea Sterility Mosaic Disease in Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) by Small RNA Sequencing and Sequence Independent Amplification Approaches; AcSIR; Biological sciences
Project scientist-II at CSIR-IHBT
- Dr Bharti Lalhal Barsain (2021) Assessment of Geranyl Pyrophosphate Synthase/Geranyl Geranyl Pyrophosphate Synthase (GPPS/GGPPS) Enzyme System and Epigenetic Regulation Upon Picroside Biosynthesis Pathway
- Dr Poonam Bharti (2023) Studies on epigenetic regulation of flavonoid and antioxidative pathways in Nicotiana tabacum during salt stress
- Dr Usha Rattan (2023) Elucidating the Role of Homeobox 27 during Disease Development by Cucumber mosaic virus
As co-supervisor
- Dr Rashmi Kalia (2017) Molecular identification and characterization of important viruses infecting chrysanthemum; under joint supervision with Dr Avinash Nagpal, Botanical sciences, GNDU, Amritsar
- Dr Poonam Chaudhary (2022) Indexing of Viruses infecting Tomato crop in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, under joint supervision with Dr Avinash Nagpal, Botanical sciences, GNDU, Amritsar
Current Lab Members
- Bipasha Bhattacharjee (INSPIRE PhD/ Fulbright Fellow); Functional Characterisation of At/Cs Nuclear Factor-YB8 (NF-YB8) transcription factors in viral disease progression
- Kamini Kapoor (PhD, DBT-SRF); Understanding the role of Glycine Rich Protein in Cuucmber Mosaic virus pathogenesis
- Anish Tamang (PhD, ICMR-SRF) ; “Studies on modulation of Picrosides content Tomato leaf curl Palampur virus and endophytes in Picrorhiza kurrooa
- Savita Chaudhary (PhD) ; The role of host proteins binding to genomic RNAs of virus and virus like pathogens
- Abhisha Roy (Industry-sponsored PhD) ; Identification and Characterization of Defense Signaling Pathways primed by Seaweed Extracts
- Govind Rai (PhD, CSIR-JRF) ; Identification and Characterisation of endosymbionts from Trialeurodes vaporariorum and their potential role in transmission of ASSVd
- Parmeet Kaur (PhD, CSIR-JRF) ; Role of viral and host factors in circulative transmission of Tomato begomovirus by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci
- Naorem Priyaluxmi Devi (Project Associate II) ; Surveillance, multiplex virus diagnostics, raising quality rootstocks for promotion of low chilling varieties of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) in Manipur to improve the livelihood of local farmers
- Monika Choudhary (Project Scientist 2) ; Development of mycovirus based biological control strategy for the control of Rosellinia necartix infecting fruit crops and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum infecting vegetable crops in the Indian Himalayan Region