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Dr. Kirti Arora Ph.D |
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Education |
• Ph.D. (Biotechnology) National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology
and Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
• M.Sc. (Biotechnology) Gold Medalist, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla
• B. Sc. (Clinical nutrition & dietetics) Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
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Other Qualification |
• Graduate Aptitiude Test (GATE): Year 2009, Subject: Biotechnology
NET-JRF (CSIR-UGC): Year 2010, Subject: Life Sciences Academy
• University First Rank Holder (Kurukshetra University,2006-2008)
• Gold Medalist & University First Rank Holder (Himachal Pradesh
University,2008-2010)
• Department of Science and Technology (DST) Women Scientist ‘C’ from
August 2019 to July 2020
• Introduction to Patent Cooperation treaty: WIPO Certificate in PCT Distance
Learning Course, January 2020
• General Course On Intellectual Property: WIPO Certificate in distance learning from November 11, 2019 to January 19, 2020
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Professional Experience
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She holds a Professional Degree in Biotechnology and experience in handling Patent Documents Filing,
Patent Searching and Analytics, Patent Prosecution while primarily dealing with life science,
biotechnology, biology, microbiology, chemical, pharmaceutical and related subject matters.
She has worked as Research Associate (RA) from November 2018 to June 2019 at Division of
Biochemistry, IARI, New Delhi and as Senior Research Fellow (SRF) from August 2016 to November
2018 at National Institute of Plant Biology, New Delhi.
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Research Publications
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Arora K, Rai AK, Gupta SK, Singh PK, Narula A, Sharma TR (2015). Phenotypic expression of blast
resistance gene Pi54 is not affected by its chromosomal position, Plant Cell Reports, 34(1):63-70. (IF3.1).
Kirti Arora, Amit Kumar Rai, Basavantraya N. Devanna, Banita Kumari, Tilak Raj Sharma (2018). RNAi
mediated knockdown of rice blast resistance gene Pi54 leads to compromised blast resistance and
delayed flowering in rice, Functional plant biology, 45:1241-1250. (I.F-2.5)
Hukam C. Rawal, Amitha Mithra SV, Kirti Arora, Vishesh Kumar, Neha Goel, Dwijesh Chandra Mishra,
Krishna Kumar Chaturvedi, Anil Rai, S Vimala Devi, Tilak Raj Sharma, Amolkumar U Solanke (2018).
Genome wide analysis in wild and cultivated oryza species reveals abundance of NBS genes in
progenitors of cultivated rice Plant Molecular Biology reporter, 36: 373-386 (I.F-1.92)
Prashant R. Shingote & S. V. Amitha Mithra & Pratima Sharma & Navadagi B. Devanna & Kirti Arora &
Somnath K. Holkar & Suhail Khan & J. Singh & Sanjeev Kumar & T. R. Sharma & Amolkumar U.
Solanke (2019). LTR-Retrotransposons and highly informative ISSRs in combination are potential
markers for genetic fidelity testing of tissue culture-raised plants in sugarcane, Molecular breeding, 39:
25 (I.F-2.2).
Sharma TR, Devanna BN, Kiran K, Singh PK, Arora K, Jain P, Tiwari IM, Dubey H, Saklani B, Kumari M,
Singh J, Jaswal R, Kapoor R, Pawar DV, Sinha S, Bisht DS, Solanke AU, Mondal TK. Status and
Prospects of Next Generation Sequencing Technologies in Crop Plants, Current Issues in Molecular
Biology (https://doi.org/10.21775/9781910190654.02) (I.F-4.4).
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Honors and Awards
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Bestowed with the prestigious Gold Medal and Santosh Shiksha Puraskar for ‘1st POSITION IN IN
UNIVERSITY IN MSC. 1st YEAR’ in the Academic Year 2008/2009 by Himotkarsh Sahitya Parishad, Una,
H.P in 2010.
Awarded ‘Gold medal for being University Topper in Msc. Biotechnology Examination’ by Himachal
Pradesh University for the Academic Years 2008-2010.
Awarded ‘Smt. Shakuntla Aggrawal Memorial Award for being University Topper in Msc.
Biotechnology Examination’ by Himachal Pradesh University for the Academic Years 2008-2010.
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