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Scientific/Academic Activities

Scientific/academic Activities

  1. UGC Nominee on SAP (DRS-1) advisory committee of Jaipur University, 2009

  2. UGC Nominee on School Board of Life Sciences,  NEHU, Shillong.

  3. UGC Nominee on SAP-DRS-1 to the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad (2016-2021)

  4. Member of the Advisory committee of HRD-DBT program at GBPU Agricultural Sciences, Pantnagar.

  5. Member, Special Committee of the School of Environmental Sciences, JNU, New Delhi. 

  6. Member, Special Committee of the School of Computational & IntegrativeSciences, JNU (2011-2014).

  7. Member, Academic Council, TERI University, New Delhi-70 (2015-2017).

  8. Member, Committee of Direction, CIMAP & JNU (2015-2017).

  9. Member, Special Committee of the School of Biotechnology (2014-2017), JNU

  10. Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of NABI (2016-2019).

  11. External Expert, Institutional Biosafety Committee,  JNU, 2003.

  12. External Expert, Board of Research Studies, Centre for Biotechnology, Hamdard University,2004.

  13. External Expert, Board of Studies, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University. NOIDA, UP.

  14. Member, Governing Body, Bhaskaracharya College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi

  15. Member, Governing Body, Lady Hardinge Medical College, University of Delhi, 2011-2013

  16. Member, Governing Body, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi, 2011

  17. Member, Governing Body, College of Nursing, Holy Family Hospital, University of Delhi (2012-2015)

  18. Member, Governing Body, Univ. Hostel for Women, University of Delhi (2011-2013; 2013-2015

  19. Member, Governing Body, Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, New Delhi (2014-2017).

  20. Member, Star College Advisory Committees of DBT at Maitreyi College, Miranda House, and Ramjas College, University of  Delhi.

  21. Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Seribiodiversity, Central Silk Board, Hosur, India

  22. Member of Editorial Board, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, Springer, India

  23. Member of Editorial Board, Proc. National Academy of Sciences, Section-B- Biological Sciences, India (2012-2013).

  24. Member of Editorial Board, PLOS One

  25. Member of Editorial Board, Frontiers of Plant Sciences,

  26. Member, Taskforce on Human Resource Development, DBT.

  27. Member, Taskforce on BioCARE, DBT.

  28. Member, Taskforce on ‘Value- Added Biomass & Products from Natural resources’, DBT.

  29. Member of project Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (PMEC) of National Certification System for Tissue Culture raised Plants (NCS-TCP), from 2014-2017

  30. Member, Expert-Committee for ‘National Bioscience Award for Career Development’, since 2011, DBT.

  31. Member, Program Advisory Committee (PAC) on Plant Sciences of SERB, Govt. of India (2012-15).

  32. Member of the Subject Area Committee on Life Sciences for the SwarnaJayanti Fellowship Award, DST (2014-2017).

  33. Member, “Working Group on Enrichment of Knowledgebase” to formulate 12th  Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, DST.

  34. Foreign Secretary, The National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India, (2013 and 2014).

  35. Nominated NASI member to the Science Education Panel of the three National Science Academies (2013-2015).

  36. Member of the Apex Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, DBT for 2014-2017.

  37. Member of the Inter-Academy Panel on ‘Women in Science’.

  38. Co-Chair of BIOCARE programme of DBT, Govt of India, (2014-2017).

  39. Chairperson, PAC on Plant Sciences of SERB, Govt. of India (2015-2017).

  40. Council Member (NASI representative), Indian National Science Academy, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

  41. Convenor of Sub-committee on Plant Sciences Indian National Science Academy, 2017.

  42. General Secretary (Outstation), The National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India, (2018-2019).

  43. Member of the TaskForce on Research on Technology Development in Silk and its Applications in BioMaterials, DBT for 2018-2021.

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