Dr. Gopal Singh

Dr. Gopal Singh, Assistant Professor


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  • Education: Ph.D.
  • Email: gopal@doonuniversity.ac.in
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Plant Specialized Metabolism, Metabolic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Next Generation Sequencing
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Awards & Honours:
  1. Awarded with the International Travel Grant by SERB, New Delhi to attend The Plant & Animal Genome Conference (PAG XXVII) 2019, San Diego, USA
  2. Awarded with Walter Benjamin Position postdoctoral fellowship by German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany to work on duckweed bioengineering at Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (IomE), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
  3. Awarded with IBCH PAS Director Award-Best review publication, 2023
Best Five publications in last five years:
  1. Masand, M., Sharma, S., Kumari, S., Pal, P., Majeed, A., Singh, G. and Sharma, R. K.* (2024) High-quality haplotype-resolved chromosome assembly provides evolutionary insights and targeted steviol glycosides (SGs) biosynthesis in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 22, 3262-3277. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14446
  2. Singh G., Agrawal H., and Bednarek P. (2023). Specialized metabolites as versatile tools in shaping plant–microbe associations. Mol. Plant. 16, 122–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.12.006
  3. Singh, G., Pal, P., Masand, M., Seth, R., Kumar, A., Singh, S. and Sharma, R. K.* (2020) Comparative transcriptome analysis revealed gamma-irradiation mediated disruption of floral integrator gene(s) leading to prolonged vegetative phase in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 148 (2020), 90–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.01.004
  4. Belwal, T.*, Singh, G., Jeandet, P., Pandey, A., Giri, L, Venskutonis, P. R., Bhatt, I. D., Georgievg, M. I., Clément, C. and Luo, Z.* (2020) Anthocyanins, multi-functional natural products of industrial relevance: recent biotechnological advances. Biotechnology Advances 43 (2020), 107600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2020.107600
  5. Singh, G., Singh, G., Singh, P., Parmar, R., Paul, N., Vashist, R., Swarnkar, M. K., Kumar, A., Singh, S., Singh, A. K., Kumar, S. and Sharma, R. K.* (2017) Molecular dissection of transcriptional reprogramming of steviol glycosides synthesis in leaf tissue during developmental phase transitions in Stevia rebaudiana Bert. Scientific Reports 7, 11835. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12025-y