Details

Name of faculty: Dr. Navaneetha Krishnan J

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Biotechnology

Phone: 9445763012

Email id: jaya.nava100@gmail.com, navaneeth.j@pucollege.edu.in

Orcid id: 0000-0002-6828-376X

Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Navaneetha-Krishnan-J

Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_0tPSngAAAAJ&hl=en 

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

NET QUALIFICATION : CSIR-NET (Lifesciences), ICAR-NET (Agricultural Biotechnology)

DETAILS OF EMPLOYMENT

SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

• Awarded Department of Biotechnology (DBT) fellowship for pursuing Masters’ programme in Biotechnology during 2013-2015.
• Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for pursuing Ph.D. in Biotechnology by the Department of Biotechnology (2017-2022).
• Awarded ICAR-SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (SRF) (2016), CSIR-JRF (2017)

SUBJECTS TAUGHT

Plant Biotechnology, Plant Tissue Culture, Fundamentals of Biology, Tools and Techniques in Biotechnology, Understanding India (value added course)

MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

Life member, Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding

RESEARCH INTEREST/SPECIALIZATION

Molecular Breeding for Biotic and Abiotic stress tolerance, Plant Biotechnology, Bioprospecting

PUBLICATIONS

1.       Krishnan, J. N., Kumar, U., Kaur, S., & Chhuneja, P. (2023). Development of a novel image-based grain counting setup for thousand-grain weight estimation in wheat. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 83(04), 469-475. 

2.       Farhad M, Kumar U, Tomar V, Bhati PK, Krishnan J. N, Kishwar-E-Mustarin, Barek V, Brestic M and Hossain A (2023) Heat stress in wheat: a global challenge to feed billions in the current era of the changing climate. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7:1203721.

3.      Chandrasekar, A., Kumari, M., Navaneetha Krishnan, J., Suresh, S., Gnanam, R., Sundaram, R. M., & Kumaravadivel, N. (2022). Marker-assisted introgression of bacterial blight resistance gene xa13 into improved CO43. Euphytica, 218(8): 1-13. (NAAS rating: 7.90)

4.      Mondal, S., Sallam, A., Sehgal, D., Sukumaran, S., Farhad, M., Navaneetha Krishnan, J., Uttam Kumar., Biswal, A. (2021). Advances in Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Wheat. In Genomic Designing for Abiotic Stress Resistant Cereal Crops (pp. 71-103). Springer, Cham.

5.       Navaneetha Krishnan, J., Kumaravadivel, N., Ramanathan, A., Chandrasekar, A., and Bharathi, M. (2019). Marker-assisted Selection for Incorporating Bacterial Blight Resistance Genes in the Segregating Generation of Rice Variety CO 43. Indian Journal of Ecology, 46(4): 803-809 (NAAS rating: 5.79).

6.       P. Jayaprakash, D. Sheeba, V. K. Vikas, M. Sivasamy, Jagdish Kumar, S., Annapoorani and Navaneetha Krishnan, J. (2017). A reproducible in vitro pollen germination medium for recalcitrant cereal rye pollen (Secale cereale L): Effect of tryptone. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 77(1): 25-31. (NAAS rating: 6.55).

TRAININGS/SHORT COURSES ATTENDED

1.       Attended a workshop on ‘Addressing the complexity of Stress Biology through Hi-throughput Omics Analysis using Bioinformatics Tools’ organized by G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar during October 04-07, 2016.

2.       Participated in a workshop on ‘Popular Science Writing’ organized by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India at IISER, Mohali on September 24, 2018.

3.       Participated in a short-term course on ‘Biostatistics: a user’s perspective’ conducted at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune during December 28-30, 2018.

4.       Successfully completed an online course on ‘R programming A-Z: R for Data Science With Real Exercises’ on Udemy.com

5.       Attended Hands-on training on ‘Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis’ at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University during May 23-26, 2023.

6.       Participated in eight days online training programme on ‘NEP Orientation and Sensitization’ organized by Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, Mizoram University during 10^th -21^st  November, 2023

7.       Participated in ‘National Level Research Methodology Workshop 2024’ held on 17th - 18th January, 2024 at Pachhunga University College, Aizawl, Mizoram.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS/AWARDS

1.       Awarded Best Oral Presenter at ‘The 6^th International Agriculture Students Symposium’ held at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia during February 2018.

2. Awarded second best oral presenter at the International E-Conference on ‘Advances and Future Outlook in Biotechnology and Crop Improvement for Sustainable Productivity’ organized by the University of Horticultural Sciences, Bengaluru during November 2020.
3. Awarder best oral presenter at International Conference on ‘Innovative Approaches in Crop Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture’ held at JSA College of Agriculture and Technology, Cuddalore during Febraury 2023.

Total no. of Oral/Poster presentations: 5

Total no. of Conferences attended: 11