Introducing Our Authors

Education: B.Tech. Biotechnology and M.Tech. Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University (Jalandhar), Assistant Professor in C.T. Group of Institutes (Jalandhar) Current Position: Ph.D. Scholar, School of Biotechnology, SMVDU, Katra (Jammu); Project Fellow, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (Jammu), Advisors: Dr. Sundeep Jaglan and Dr. Sharada. M. Potukuchi Nonscientific Interests: Reading fiction, aerobics, listening to music, driving, playing chess My current research interests are chemical mutagenesis and isolation of secondary metabolites from important fungi and their bioactive potential. This strategy has been recently introduced to fungi, i.e., a mutation-based mutagenesis strategy for the discovery of novel bioactive compounds from silent pathways of fungal secondary metabolites. By using chemical mutagenesis, we identified a new array of molecules and enhanced the yield of important metabolites, which were not produced by the fungi in normal media conditions. (Read Vidushi’s article DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00875.)