Biography:
Dr. Nisha Singh is working as Assistant Professor (Bioinformatics), Department of Bioinformatics, Gujarat Biotechnology University, Gandhinagar, India, and DST-INSPIRE Faculty. Dr. Singh has completed her PhD in plant genomics from ICAR-NIPB, New Delhi, India and postdoctoral studies from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. She has rich expertise in crop genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics and well recognised national and international level. She has published more than 65 papers in reputed international journals and has been serving as an editorial board member and reviewer of reputed journals. For her scientific contribution she gained several prestigious awards and honours (>25) such as INSA-Medal for Young Scientist Award - 2020 from Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India, National Environmental Science Academy - 2022, Scientist of the Year Award, and NASI - Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award 2022, India.
Title : Identification of genes to improve seed and nutrition quality traits in pigeonpea using genome wide association study