Conferences, Trainings and Invited Talks:
1) Invited Talk on “Spatiotemporal regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 for enhanced efficiency, precision, and heritability in Plants” on July 28, 2022 during the SERB, India-sponsored 7-day workshop from July 22-29, 2022 at the Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
2) Invited Talk on “Emphasizing the Role of Bioinformatics in Every India Research Lab” during the Omics Research Symposium 2022 organised by PineBiotech on March 31, 2022 through online mode.
3) Chaired a workshop and delivered talk on drafting research grant proposals and manuscripts for young investigators during the Newton-Bhabha Fund Researcher Link Workshop on “Sustaining Food Production Under Environmental Stress” organized by National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI); Centre for Innovation and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB); Jawaharlal University (JNU); International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) and University of Birmingham from 18th -21st January, 2022 through hybrid mode.
4) Delivered an invited lecture on “Promoter Selection for Optimized Genome Editing in Plants” during (ATAL) Academy Online Elementary Faculty Development Programme on "Genome Engineering: CRISPR-Cas as an emerging Tool" at Department of Biotechnology, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad on 18th Dec 2021 through online mode.
5) Delivered talk on “Writing your first scientific manuscript” organized by Biosetup Life Sciences on Oct 9, 2021 through online mode.
6) Delivered Invited Talk as Resource person during a 15 days Refresher Course in Research Methodology and Statistical Analysis on “2021” organized by UGC-HRD Centre at Ranchi University, Jharkhand on 12th Aug, 2021 through online mode.
7) Attended International Virtual Conference on "Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (SBB) 2021" organized from May 29-31, 2021 by SynBio and Akademisi, Indonesia as session moderator.
8) Delivered Talk and Hands-on workshop on RNA Sequencing Data Analysis during Workshop on Omics Data Analysis from April 16-17, 2021 organized by JIIT, Noida.
9) Coordinated 25th Refresher Course in Life Sciences & Biotechnology organized by HRDC-JNU from Dec 28, 2020 to Jan 9, 2021.
10) Delivered a talk on “CRISPR/cas-mediated Engineering of Crop Plants” on Jan 1st, 2021 during 25th Refresher Course in Life Sciences & Biotechnology organized by HRDC-JNU from Dec 28, 2020 to Jan 9, 2021.
11) Participated & completed successfully AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on "Engineering Law" from 2020-10-12 to 2020-10-16 at MLR Institute of Technology.
12) Participated & completed successfully AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on "Recent Trends and Future Opportunities on Deep Learning" from 2020-9-21 to 2020-9-25 at Central University of Rajasthan
13) Participant in Research Training Group Big Data Research in the Biosciences an Indian-German Research Network funded by DBT and Heidelberg University as PI from JNU
14) Attended E-learning workshop on “Design, Development and Delivery of Online Course” organized by SCEL, JNU (June 2020) and webinar on Online Assessment using Techgig platform (Aug 2020) by JNU.
15) Attended 5th IITM-Tokyo Tech Symposium on Bioinformatics 2020 held from 6-7th March 2020 at IIT Madras, India
16) Invited Lecture on “Opportunities and teething troubles with CRISPR/cas9 toolkit for engineering plant genomes” during the National Conference on CRISPR-Cas as an Emerging Tool for Genome Editing on Feb 22, 2020 at Department of Biotechnology, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad.
17) Invited Lecture on “Omics-guided New Age Domestication of Grasses for Biofuels” during the International Symposium of Bioinformatics, 2019 (InSyB2019) from Dec 21-22, 2019 at Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
18) Organized a workshop on Scientific Manuscript Writing and Reference Management at Division of Plant Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi in October 2019.
19) Invited Lecture on "Big Impact of Small RNAs on Crop Improvement" during ICAR sponsored winter school program on Nov 1st, 2019 at Division of Vegetable Science at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
20) Invited Lecture on “Invited Lecture on "Grass Feedstock Engineering for Biofuels" during workshop on “Genome Editing in Plants” from 27-31 May 2019 at University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
21) Oral Presentation on “Optimization of genome editing tools for deciphering multilevel regulation of male fertility in sorghum” on Feb 28, 2019 at Convention Center, JNU, New Delhi, India.
22) Oral Presentation on "Transcriptional landscape of reproductive organs in sorghum" on April 25, 2018 at Joint BioEnergy Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
23) Attended 6th Plant Genomics & Gene Editing Congress on Oct 1-2, 2018 at Philadelphia, USA and presented a poster entitled "Transcriptional landscape of sorghum anthers".
24) Participated in DOE review at Joint BioEnergy Institute by presenting work on Optimization of genome editing tools for plant engineering for biofuel production on Dec 4, 2018.
25) Participated in LabTech 2018 computing outreach and training event organized by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on October 25, 2018.
26) Attended Feedstocks Annual Meeting on Oct 18, 2018 at UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, Berkeley, CA, USA
27) Attended symposium on “Endless Forms” at UC Berkeley on June 29, 2018.
28) Attended “Data Carpentry-Genomics” workshop on May 3 and 4, 2018 organized by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories at Berkeley lab.
29) Worked as Departmental Representative for organizing Open Day on 27 October 2017 at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
30) Invited Lecture on “Grass Feedstock Engineering for Biofuels” during 86th Conference of Society of Biological Chemists (SBC-2017) from 16-19 Nov 2017 at Convention Center, JNU, New Delhi, India
31) Organized a workshop on Scientific Manuscript Writing and Reference Management during the National Conference of Plant Physiology-2017 at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, India from Nov 23-25, 2017.
32) Distance Learning course on General Intellectual Property (DL101) by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland from Oct 16 to Nov 29, 2017.
33) Organized a workshop on Scientific Manuscript Writing and Reference Management on 8th Dec 2016 during the National Conference of Plant Physiology at UAS GKVK, Bengaluru.
34) Invited Lecture, Departmental Seminar Series at Centre of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD), India on August 9, 2016, entitled “Role of Computational Biology in Crop Improvement”.
35) Participated in 3rd International Plant Physiology Congress: Challenges and Strategies in Plant Biology Research, Dec 11-14, 2015 at JNU as an organizer.
36) Invited Lecture, ICAR sponsored summer school on RNA-interference As a Tool for Plant Functional genomics and Crop Improvement, May 2015, ICAR-NRCPB, New Delhi, India entitled “RNAi to Optimize Grass Cell Walls for Biofuel Production”.
37) Invited Lecture, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology, Nov 2014, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India entitled “Leveraging model systems to improve sugar yields and sustainability in bioenergy grasses”.
38) Participated actively as an “organizer” in International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB 2014), Nov 6-9, 2014 at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
39) Successfully completed the UGC sponsored orientation course organized by Human Resource Development Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University during 8th February 2016 to 4th March 2016 with grade A.
40) Attended workshop on a LIMS based portal for Plant Metabolomics, CCPM on Feb 24, 2016 organized by JNU, New Delhi and IIIT-Hyderabad.
41) Workshop on DST-sponsored Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics at Advanced Instrumentation Facility, JNU, New Delhi, on 6 to 8 Aug 2014
42) Invited Lecture, Summer Research Program, June 2013, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, INDIA, entitled “Systems biology approaches to infer gene regulatory networks in plants”.
43) Speaker, Young Investigators Meeting, Oct 2012, MIT Boston, USA; entitled “Elucidating stress-regulatory crosstalk in grasses”.
44) Speaker, Joint Bioenergy Institute/ Energy Biosciences Institute Feedstock Meeting in May 2012, JBEI Emeryville, CA, USA; entitled “Network-guided predictions and switchgrass sequencing”.
45) Speaker, Joint Bioenergy Institute Feedstock meeting in April 2012 at University of California, Davis, USA, entitled “The power of RNA Sequencing and data analysis pipeline”.
46) Speaker, Plant & Animal Genome XX, Perennial Grasses Workshop in Jan 2011, San Diego USA; entitled “Switchgrass Genome Structure and Organization”.
47) Speaker, Director Meeting in Oct 2011, NIFA, Washington, USA entitled “Identification of genes controlling disease resistance to mitigate disease pressure of bioenergy crops”.
48) Speaker, JGI User Meeting, March 2010, JGI Walnut Creek, USA, entitled “BAC library characterization, screening and phylomics analysis”.
49) Workshop on Next generation sequencing, Sept 13-17, 2010 by Genome Center, UC Davis
50) Workshop in Advanced Microarray Techniques-Microarray data analysis by IISc and Genotypic Technology on Jan 30, 2006.