Elicitation Methods for Improvement in Plant Secondary Metabolites

Dr. Sonal Mishra has worked as a microbiologist research scientist in PfBIO Ltd, Centrum, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK and also served as visiting scientist at John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom. She pursued her PhD jointly from Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP), Lucknow and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has completed her postdoctoral work as Dr. D. S. Kothari-Post Doctoral Fellow (UGC-DSKPDF) and SERB-National Postdoc Fellow (SERB-NPDF) at the School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, India. Further, she also gained postdoc experience at Jawaharlal Nehru University and NIPGR, New Delhi, India. With specialization in various aspects of biotechnology, she has acquired training and experience to carry out research in diverse fields of plant biotechnology and molecular biology. 

Dr. Vikas Srivastava is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Central University of Jammu, India and also worked as Royal Society-Newton International Fellow at John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom. He completed his PhD jointly from Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP) and Lucknow University, India. Furthermore, he pursued his postdoctoral work from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India. With specialization in various aspects of biotechnology, he has acquired training and experience to carry out research in the diverse field of plant biology. 

Dr. Shakti Mehrotra is currently working a consultant scientist in Molecular Biology Lab, Biotech Park, Lucknow, India. She completed her PhD jointly from CSIR-CIMAP and Lucknow University, India. Furthermore, she pursued her postdoctoral work at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow (DBT-PDF) and Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP, DST Young Scientist). With specialization in various aspects of biotechnology, she has acquired training and experience to carry out research in diverse field of plant biotechnology.