A Practical Lab Manual
E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-12-824450-0
Verlag: Elsevier Reference Monographs
Format: PDF
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Dr. Khalid Zaffar Masoodi, a young scientist working as an Assistant Professor at Division of Plant Biotechnology in Sher-e Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (India) and holds Masters and Ph.D in Biotechnology. After completing his Ph.D., he worked in Prof. Zhou Wang's Lab at University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA as Postdoctoral Associate (2010-2014). Dr. Masoodi is a recipient of SERB Early Career Research award 2016, Travel Award, SBUR, USA 2012, Society of Endocrinology Journal Award 2018 and many more. With a glorious academic career, Dr. Masoodi holds a distinction in qualifying CSIR-UGC net in Life Sciences, DBT-BET JRF and has qualified Graduate aptitude test in Engineering and Sciences (GATE) while he was doing his Masters in Plant Biotechnology.
His lab (Transcriptomics Laboratory, also called as K-Lab inspired by Klenow fragment that revolutionized Biotechnology research) at SKUAST-K is well equipped with Fluorescence imaging facility, RT-PCR, cell culture, Western blotting and many state-of-the-art instruments. His research focus is on multi-dimensional work on Transcriptomics of stress biology (biotic/abiotic) in plants and Cancer biology. Apart from that, he is extensively working on drug discovery from medicinal plants. He has produced high-impact papers published in Oncogene, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Endocrinology, Journal of Functional Foods, Plos One, and many more, and has over 230 sequences in Genbank. He also deciphered the whole transcriptome of six Kashmiri apple varieties. Currently, he has three externally funded projects from SERB, DST which focus on high throughput screening of Medicinal plants for prostate cancer and cisgenic apple. In 2019-20 Dr. Masoodi filed 5 patent applications with the Indian Patent office.