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+ Lead all Genetic Purity activities across Asia, overseeing projects for GOT improvement, harmonization, SNP deployment, and IEF enhancement.+ Spearhead genetic testing decisions for F1 and parent lines, ensuring alignment with quality standards and strategic follow-up.+ Provide technical supervision for Genetic QC activities, ensuring accuracy and reliability of results for SNP, GOT and IEF teams.+ Coordinate understanding and communication of SNP results with regional customers, fostering collaboration and issue resolution.+ Offer support for Genetic QC Strategy at regional and global levels, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.+ Ensure compliance with regional processes, ensuring reliability, repeatability, and timeliness of Genetic QC services.+ Manage costing, budget, and regional Genetic QC projects, optimizing resource utilization.+ Support parent lines purification projects using GOT, IEF, or SNP techniques to enhance breeding and production.+ Facilitate regional communication to optimize collaboration and results among teams.+ Implement agronomic improvements for Genetic QC activities to enhance overall outcomes.+ Collaborate with global counterparts to share best practices, knowledge, and resources, driving continuous improvement efforts.+ Select stock seed lots for F1 production, maintaining genetic purity and quality.+ Evaluate production risks associated with seed lots, implementing mitigation measures.+ Maintain inventory of parent lines genetic quality results, ensuring data accuracy.+ Select FS lots for stock seed increase, ensuring consistency in production quality.+ Participate in production release meetings, providing insights to enhance processes.+ Support field visits for off-type decision-making, ensuring adherence to quality control measures.

+ Genetic Purity tests - SNP, HTL, Isozyme, AP, TP; Preparing testability and testing plan.+ Studies to improve the testing protocols and product performance.+ LIMS implementation for genetic purity test workflows, Integration of LIMS and SAP.+ Co-ordinating with global QT and Molecular Analytic Innovation team for technical discussion, validation and implementation of novel methods, and special studies.+ Collaboration with Quality Assurance, seed operations and marketing team for handling market complaints and performing RCA.+ Resourceful administrating the entire gamut of activities related to genetic purity testing such as, sourcing vendor management, budget tracking, input management, techno commercial negotiation and lab management.+ Ensuring compliance with EHS and biosafety - first aid, fire fighter, industrial hazard regulation, environmental regulation policies.+ India coordinator for Vegetable crops genetic purity testing at GQA, St. Louis - managing testability plan, forecast, and special studies.+ OnePSS representative (Teamwork); Event management team lead for site.+ QMS Co-Ordinator - Document management (WIs, SOPs, Knowledge docs), CAPA management, Vendor evaluation, Customer feedbacks, Quality management reviews, FMEA for QT processes to mitigate gaps, managing management of change for new methods implemented at quality testing function, External and internal audits, to support QSQE team for Quality culture initiatives.

+ Mapping population development, Trait mapping (dry-DSR suited traits), and trait deployment.+ Developing water and labor-saving aerobic rice varieties employing molecular breeding approaches+ Marker development for QTLs/genes associated with traits favorable to dry direct seeded rice system+ Evaluating the yield performance of dry-DSR suited breeding material derived from marker assisted forward and backcross breeding approaches, and advancement of mapping populations through field based RGA (Rapid Generation Advancement).+ Resource planning and managing project budget, techno commercial negotiation and lab management.+ Collaborating with partners to obtain progress report and keep participating institutes updated on marker development, genotyping, and phenotyping.+ Evaluating, and analyzing research data obtained from multi-locations. + Preparation of reports, publications, and presentations by summarizing research findings, and supervising the work of research fellows, technicians, contract workers, students, and trainees.

+ Japan International Cooperation Agency project - Maximization of Soybean production+ Molecular studies on virus-vector relationship.+ Standardization of DNA extraction from Whiteflies, and MYMIV infected soybean, greengram and blackgram tissue samples. Developing PCR based assay for identification of MYMIV.+ Preparation of reports, publications, and presentations by summarizing research findings, and supervising the work of research fellows, technicians, contract workers, students, and trainees.

+ Development of in-vitro regeneration protocol for blackgram, greengram and redgram. + Standardization of factors affecting Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation. + Resource planning and managing project budget.

Ph.D. (Agri), Molecular Biology And Biotechnology, 8.85/10

Activities and Societies: Life member of • The Journal of Research ANGRAU • Society for Millets Research • Society for Advancement of Rice.

M.Sc (Agri), Agriculture (Agricultural Biotechnology), 9.28/10

Activities and Societies: Research training at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati - advance molecular biology, genomics, genetic.