Contact Details:
Assistant Professor3277-K, Department of Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani
Pilani Campus, Vidya Vihar
Pilani 333031, Rajasthan, India
Email: mukul.joshi@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in, joshimukul275@gmail.com
Phone: +91-1596-255766
About the Faculty
I completed PhD in Biotechnology from CSIR-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar in affiliation with MKB University, Bhavnagar (Gujarat) in 2013. I have six years of postdoctoral research experience from the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization (Israel) and Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi. My research experience includes abiotic stress genomics and enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic plants, root system architecture, molecular characterization of apple and pomegranate peel development and fruit-cracking resistance following the application of PGRs. I joined BITS Pilani as Ramalingaswami fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences in 2019 and later on as Assistant Professor in 2020.
Now, I am interested in exploring known and novel heat-shock proteins and factors in a thermotolerant plant Prosopis cineraria by transcriptome study and producing abiotic stress tolerant rice by transgenics and genome editing.
Another research project is on the root system architecture and root-omics during drought and thermotolerance in Prosopis cineraria, a promising desert plant.