Education: M. Sc. CCSHAU, Hisar (2008); B.Sc. MDU, Rohtak (2006)

Positions held: Assistant Professor (Bioinformatics)

Field of Specialization :

NGS data analysis, Genome and Transcriptome analysis, understanding Plant-Pathogen interaction, database development.

Research Interests :

1. Whole genome and transcriptome assembly and annotation
2. GBS data analysis and Bioinformatics database and tool development.
3. Protein modeling and analysis of protein, ligand interaction, Virtual Screening

Research Projects:

1. DBT Funded Whole genome sequence based SSR markers development in mungbean and their utilization in mapping of YMD resistance in an interspecific cross. ( Co-PI).
2. DBT Funded Mining for heat tolerance of wheat in Australian and Indian environments ( Co-PI , Indo-Australian)
3. DBT Funded Sequencing of Xanthomonas oryzae pathotypes for better management of bacterial blight disease in rice (Co-PI)

Selected Research Publications :

1. Mittal A, Yadav IS, Arora NK, Boora RS, Mittal M, Kaur P, Erskine W, Chhuneja P, Gill MIS and Singh K. RNA-Sequencing based gene expression landscape of guava cv. Allahabad Safeda and comparative analysis to colored cultivars. BMC Genomics (2020) 21:484 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-06883-6 (NAAS 9.50)
2. Steuernagel B, Witek K, Krattinger SG, Ramirez-Gonzalez RH, Schoonbeek HJ, Yu G, Baggs E, Witek A, Yadav I, Krasileva KV, Jones JD, Uauy C, Keller B, Ridout CJ, Wulff BB. The NLR-Annotator tool enables annotation of the intracellular immune receptor repertoire. Plant Physiol. 2020 Mar 17. pii: pp.01273.2019. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.01273 (NAAS 12.31)
3. Yadav IS, Malhotra PK and Sharma A. Genome-wide functional analysis of sugarcane ESTs. Int. Sugar Journal. 2019, 121 (1452): 912-918 (NAAS 6.02)
4. Kaur P., Jindal S., Yadav B., Yadav I., Mahato A., Sharma P., Kaur S., Gupta O.P., Vrana J et al., (2020) Comparative analysis of chromosome 2A molecular organization in diploid and hexaploid wheat. Molecular Biology Reports https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05295-9. (NAAS 7.89)
5. Yadav I S., Sharma A., Kaur S., Nahar N., Bhardwaj S C., Sharma T R. and Chhuneja P .(2016).Comparative Temporal Transcriptome Profiling of Wheat near Isogenic Line Carrying Lr57 under Compatible and Incompatible Interactions. Frontiers in Plant Science 7:1943. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01943 (NAAS rating : 10.49 )

Awards/Honours/Distinctions :

1. CSIR-UGC NET (June-2009, Dec-2009 and Dec. 2010)
2. Haryana State Council For Science And Technology Fellowship 2010
3. Netaji Subhas - ICAR International Fellowship 2020.