Alok Krishna Sinha

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Alok Krishna Sinha
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Jharkhand, India
Alma mater
Known forStudies on Mitogen-activated protein kinase
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
  • National Institute of Plant Genome Research

Alok Krishna Sinha (born 1969) is an Indian molecular biologist, biochemist, plant physiologist and a staff scientist Grade VII at the

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2013.[1]

Biography

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Born in 1969

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and at the University of Würzburg, Germany.[4] Subsequently, he joined the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi as a staff scientist[5] where he continues his research, holding the position of a Grade VI scientist.[6]

Sinha lives in NIPGR campus along Aruna Asaf Ali Marg in New Delhi.[7]

Professional profile

Sinha's research is focused on Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and its cascading effect on plants.[6] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[8][note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 119 of them.[9] Besides, he has also contributed chapters to books published by others.[10] He was one of the organizers of the International Congress of Cell Biology, held at Hyderabad in February 2018.[11]

Awards and honors

Sinha, an elected member of the

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1998 for a period of two years; he would receive AvH invitation twice more, in 2006 and in 2010.[6] In 2004, he was selected for the Young Scientist Award and for the DAAD fellowship in 2007 by the Department of Science and Technology. He was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2011[2] and he received the B. C. Deb Memorial Award from Indian Science Congress Association in 2012.[12] The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2013.[1] He is also a 2015 recipient of the TATA Innovation Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology. He became fellow of Indian National Academy Science (INSA), New Delhi in 2019 [6]

Selected bibliography

Chapters

Articles

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

  1. ^ a b "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 10 May 2018. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Alok Krishna Sinha —BIO-PROTOCOL". bio-protocol.org. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Alok Sinha - profile". www.samviti.com. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Research Interest". NIPGR. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d "Understanding mitogen activated protein kinase cascade in plants". NIPGR. 10 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Vidwan - Profile Page". vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  8. ^ "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  9. ^ "On ResearchGate". 10 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  10. ISBN 978-1-4614-4633-0
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  11. ^ "Dynamics in Plant Cell: Present and Beyond" (PDF). Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. 2 February 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Indian Science Congress Awardees". www.sciencecongress.nic.in. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.

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