Dr. Jitendra Kumar Pal

Area

Primary Area: Plant Science and biotechnology

Education

• • Post-Doc, Genome sequencing Lab, National Research centre on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi “International Project on Tomato Genome sequencing”

  • Ph. D, Plant Biotechnology, Biotechnology Lab, Crop Improvement Division, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (ICAR) 2007 “Genetic transformation of eggplant (Solanum melongena L) using Bt gene.”

  • Master in Botany (specialization in plant pathology)

  • P.P.N College, C.S.J.M. University, 2000

  • Bachelors in Botany, Lucknow University, 1997

Teaching

M.Sc.

• • Advanced Instrumental Microbiology and Research Methodology

  • Biophysical and Biochemical Methods 

  • Research Methodology 

B.Sc. 

• • Plant Biotechnology, 

  • Applied mycology and Phycology 

  • Genetics,  

  • Eukaryotic physiology, 

  • Plant and animal Science,  

  • Biotechnology for human welfare, 

  • Botany for human welfare, 

  • Introduction to Biotechnology, 

  • Cryptogams and vascular cryptogams

  • Algae, fungi and Archegoniate

  • Marine biotechnology

• • Environmental studies 

  • Cell biology 

  • Botany

  • Agricultural Techniques

  • Plant Cell and tissue culture

  • Plant and animal physiology

Research Area

• • Genetic engineering 

  • Transgenic plant (genetically modified)

  • Plant Biotechnology

  • Molecular biology

  • Genome Sequencing

  • Plant Science 

  • Plant Microbiology 

  • Basic Bioinformatics

Research Experiance

• • Structural genomics lab, National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, L.B.S. Building, I.A.R.I., Pusa Campus, New Delhi-110012

  • Research Associate (PDF)

  • Project: Indian Initiative for Tomato Genome sequencing

  • Organized 13 days training at National Research Centre on Plant biotechnology, IARI (ICAR) with National Agricultural Innovation Project on Genome sequencing and molecular breeding.

  • Expert Trainer (DNA Sequencing)

  • Biotechnology lab, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (ICAR), Varanasi, UP.

  • Research Associate 

  • Project: “Network Project for Transgenic crops”

  • Biotechnology lab, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (ICAR), Varanasi, UP.

  • Senior Research Fellow “Development of Insect resistance verities of Vegetable crops using Bt gene”.

  • Plant Virology    Unit, Plant Pathology Department,

  •  Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI-ICAR), New Delhi

  • Trainee 

  • Training cum Project work in Gene cloning technique

  • Bio-tech Lab, Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture (ICAR), Rehmankhera, Lucknow, U. P.

  • Research Associate 

  • Project: “Biotechnological Investigation for Propagation and Improvement of Mango.

Academic Experience

• • Assistant Professor (Regular-full time), Dolat Usha Institute of applied Science, V.N.S.G.U. Surat, July 2013 – Nov 2019

  • Assistant Professor (Regular-full time), SPTMC, Vanita Vishram Surat, Vanita Vishram Women’s University, Surat, Nov 2019 – Present

Awards & Honors

• • Ph.D. guide in V.N.S.G.U, Surat (2019 to 2023)

  • Ph.D. guide in V.V.W.U. Surat, since 2022

  • Former Member of Board of studies in Botany in V.N.S.G.U. Surat

  • Recognized P.G. teacher since 2018 

  • As a judge at Government Higher Secondary School Kaprada, Valsad, in science fair.