DIRECTOR
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DR. PRASHANT DHAKEPHALKAR
DIRECTOR, ARI
MEET OUR SCIENTISTS
BIODIVERSITY
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Dr. Sanjay K. Singh
Scientist – F
Fungi have ancient linkage with human civilization display extraordinary structural and functional diversity exists in many..
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Dr. BhaskarCharan Behera
Scientist – E
The major broad area of research is Biodiversity and Bioprospecting, includes Physiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, of lichen.
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Dr. Ritesh Kumar Choudhary
Scientist – E
Dr. R.K. Choudhary has more than 15 years of experience in the field of taxonomy and molecular systematics of plants.
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Dr. Karthick Balasubramanian
Scientist – E
Diatom Taxonomy and Systematics: Understanding the taxonomic diversity of diatoms across the Indian subcontinent.
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Dr. Rajesh Kumar K. C
Scientist – E
Dr Rajesh Kumar K. C. is Ph.D. from the Forest Research Institute University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India where he worked in the field of plant..
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Dr. Paras Nath Singh
Scientist – D
Fungal Biodiversity Fungal Systematics, Characterization, Biopotential,Identification and conservation of Micromycetes.
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Dr. Mandar Datar
Scientist – D
Studying the ecology of unique habitats of Northern Western Ghats (NWG), primarily focusing on species composition, their..
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Dr. Tushar Kaushik
Scientist – D
Genetic and morphological diversity in Foraminifera. Re-evaluation of species specific foraminiferal proxies using combined taxonomic approach.
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Dr. Nischitha R
Scientist – B
Assisting with the delivery of diversity of endophytic fungi in the host plant and their interaction in the production of metabolites..
BIOENERGY
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Dr. Prashant Dhakephalkar
Director
Dedication to advancing scientific knowledge, coupled with his practical contributions through industrial collaborations,.
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Dr. Sumit Singh Dagar
Scientist – E
Develop industrially viable processes that can avoid high costs of the substrate(s), harsh pretreatment method(s), and expensive..
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Scientist E
Dr. Kamlesh Jangid is a trained microbiologist and an expert in the fields of microbial systematics and ecology, and soil science..
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Dr. Pranav R. Kshirsagar
Scientist – D, Bioenergy Group
Passionate chemical engineering with 12+ years of research experience. Expertise in designing of statistical based experiments for optimization..
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Dr. Soham Pore
Project Scientist
Obtained senior research fellowship to work on Ph.D. topic ‘Biomethanation of rice straw at elevated temperature: Assessment of micor..
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Dr. Tushar Lodha
Scientist B
Aimed to work further on understanding the microbial dynamics of various ecosystems using next generation sequencing..
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Dr. Neelam Kapse
Scientist B
Exploration of pristine habitats for taxonomic novelty and biotechnological potential..
BIOPROSPECTING
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Dr. Prasad Padmkar Kulkarni
Scientist – F
More than 15 years of research experience in Bioinorganic chemistry and analytical biochemistry specialized in chemistry and biochemistry ..
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Dr. Pratibha Srivastava
Scientist – D
Natural product molecules have panoply for the benefit of humankind and the environment. We are focusing on the synthesis of natural..
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Dr. Gargee Pandit
DST/Women Scientist- WOS-A
interested in the lichen diversity on basalt and ferricrete rock outcrops of the Northern Western Ghats, India.
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Dr. Navneet Kour
Scientist – B
My vision is to be a part of an organization where I am encouraged to contribute my knowledge, experience and skills as well as taking the opportunity to learn..
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
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Dr. Anuradha Ratnaparkhi
Scientist – F
In our lab we study signalling mechanisms in the nervous system that regulate assembly of synapses, their function, and systemic..
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Dr. Chinmoy Patra
Scientist – E
Development of an organ or new life is a spectacular process, which is controlled by spatiotemporal gene expression.
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Dr. Bhupendra V. Shravage
Scientist – E
Macro-autophagy(termed as autophagy henceforth) is a conserved process that facilitates degradation of cytoplasmic components including..
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Dr. Arindam Bhattacharjee
SERB Ramanujan Fellow
Our interest in the physiology of lysosomes [green dots in Panel 1] stems from a few observations: firstly, they are the endpoint..
GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING
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Dr. Manoj Dinesh Oak
Scientist – E
My interest is to identify genes, underlying QTLs with significant impact on wheat and soybean quality, disease resistance.
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Dr. Ravindra M Patil
Scientist – D
Alternative dwarfing genes in wheat have their effect restricted to stem elongation while retaining longer coleoptile and improved seedling vigour.
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Dr. Sujata Tetali
Scientist – D
My present research interest is in breeding grapes for disease resistance and seedlessness and implementation of..
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Mr. Santosh A. Jaybhay
Scientist – D
Improve agronomic aspects of soybean crop to harvest higher yield per hectare.
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Dr. Yashavanthakumar K J
Scientist – C
Wheat improvement program at ARI aimed at developing superior varieties in bread wheat.
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Dr. Vijendra Baviskar
Scientist – C (Wheat Agronomist)
Development of climate resilient wheat varieties targeting Peninsular India in threespecies of wheat
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Mr. Sudhir Navathe
Scientist – C
Molecular plat pathology- effector triggered susceptibility and necrotrophic effector molecules in plant pathogen interaction
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Dr. Suresha P G
Scientist – B
Speeding up the development of new varieties through use of single seed descent and off-season nursery to shorten the time for..
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Dr Abhinandan Surgonda Patil
Researcher (Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellow)
Targeted integration of practical and durable multiple disease resistance genes (haplotypes) in soybean cultivars to withstand fungal..
NANOBIOSCIENCE
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Dr. Jyutika Rajwade
Scientist – F
My research deals with applications of nanomaterials in various fields. Metals-based nanoparticles were explored for their antimicrobial activity for achieving control..
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Dr. Dhananjay Bodas
Scientist – E
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Dr. Vandana Ghormade
Scientist – E
Nanoscience for protein, drug and siRNA delivery. Nanotechnologies for pathogen detection and biosensors.
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Dr. Virendra Gajbhiye
Scientist – E
Nanomedicine, Targeted drug/siRNA/miRNA/SSO delivery, Nano-immunosensors, Tissue engineering,..
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Scientist – E
I completed my PhD from University of Konstanz, Germany, where I studied methane oxidizing bacteria from Lake Constance. During my postdoctoral..
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Dr. Yogesh Karpe
Scientist – E
Replication and pathogenesis of positive sense RNA viruses
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Dr. Sachin H. Jadhav
Scientist – E
The main activity of animal facility staff is to breed and maintain the laboratory animal colonies in complete compliance..
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Dr. Pratibha
DST INSPIRE Faculty (March 2022- Present)
Research in nucleic acid chemistry plays a critical role in understanding fundamental biological processes, developing diagnostic tools, and..