Senior Scientist
- Specialisation: Plant Microbe Interaction,
Molecular Biology, Biotic stress - Email: kunal@ihbt.res.in
- Qualification: Ph.D.
- Phone: (01894) 233339 Ext 305;
Present focus of lab is on following topics:
- Identification of PGPRs for growth promotion of important crops in western himalayan region eg. Saffron & Potato.
- Understanding the role of NBS-LRR genes during pathogen infection using Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology approach.
- Awarded “National Scholarship under Centre of Advance Study Scheme” scholarship during Masters under Delhi University (2002-2004).
- Awarded GATE-2003, with percentile 96.72 (All India Rank-112).
- Awarded CSIR-JRF 2004 (Top 20: called for SPMF test).
- 1st Prize as co-author in poster presentation during national conference at Mysore (2010).
- DBT-NIPGR short term research associateship from 2013.
- Travel grants from CICS, India to attend international conference New Phytologist: Next Generation Scientist held in Norwich, UK, 2014 (Did not avail).
Editorship: Review Editor in Frontiers in Microbiology since May, 2021
Namo Dubey, Anjali Chaudhary, Kunal Singh (2022). Genome-Wide Analysis of TIR-NBS-LRR Gene Family in Potato Identified StTNLC7G2 Inducing Reactive Oxygen Species in Presence of Alternaria solani. Frontiers in Genetics, Front. Genet., 10 January 2022 (IF 4.599)
Manisha Sinha, Ankita Shree, Kunal Singh, Kamal Kumar, Shreenivas Kumar Singh Vimlesh Kumar, Praveen Kumar Verma (2021) Modulation of fungal virulence through CRZ1 regulated F-BAR-dependent actin remodeling and endocytosis in chickpea infecting phytopathogen Ascochyta rabiei. PLoS Genet 17(5): e1009137 (IF: 5.92)
Ranjeet Maurya, Yeshveer Singh, Manisha Sinha, Kunal Singh, Pallavi Mishra, Shreenivas Kumar Singh, Sandhya Verma, Kanchan Prabha, Kamal Kumar & Praveen Kumar Verma (2020) Transcript Profiling Reveals Potential Regulators for Oxidative Stress Response of a Necrotrophic Chickpea Pathogen Ascochyta rabiei. 3Biotech, 10(3):117
Namo Dubey and Kunal Singh (2018) Role of NBS-LRR proteins in plant defense. (Ch 5) In: Singh A, Singh I, (eds) Molecular Aspects of Plant-Pathogen Interaction. Springer Nature, ISBN 978-981-10-7371-7
Refer to NCBI for complete list:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=kunal+singh%MCEPASTEBIN%
Interested in joining the lab?
Passionate and motivated students are welcome to join our group.
PhD Scholar
- Ms Namo Dubey
- Ms Kanchan Yadav
- Ms Anjali Chaudhary
- Ms Pooja Yadav
- Research Associate/Project Assistant/Project Staff: Dr Tina Roy, Ms Parika Sood, Mr Sidharth Patidar