Gaurav Agarwal Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Lead and develop strategies for genome assembly, genome annotations, pan-genome, and internal browser to enable researchers in trait discovery and breeding.Lead curation of genes nominated for discovery efforts in multiple backgrounds to enable the efficient gRNA design process for editing program.Lead and develop processes to analyze NGS data - (e.g., RNAseq, ATAC-seq, WGS, ChIP-seq, Hi-C, BSA-Seq etc.), provide both standard and customized data analysis for gene discovery.Lead and develop strategies for building gene expression networks to inform the genenselection process in the program.Support genotype and phenotype mapping strategies for early discovery decisions.Generate high-quality reports for regulatory documentation, communicate with teammembers effectively, and good time management.

East Lansing, Michigan, United States

My current research focus is to identify the diverse open chromatin regions in natural octoploid strawberry and a suite of resynthesized inter- and intra- specific hybrids to understand and investigate the epigenome and subgenome expression dominance in octoploid strawberry.

Tifton, Georgia

In Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia, my research focus was both on the hosts and pathogens to identify genes involved in imparting resistance in hosts against pathogens and causing pathogenicity in bacteria.I developed pan-genomes of bacteria (Pantoea ananatis, Pantoea stewartii subs. indologens) conferring range of virulence on onions and carried out pan-genome-wide association study (Pan-GWAS) to predict pathogenicity genes associated with Center Rot of onion.On the host front, I evaluated the germplasm of Phaseolus vulgaris in response to cucurbit leaf crumple and Sida golden mosaic Florida virus. The phenotyping data along with the sequencing data is being used to carry out GWAS to identify disease resistant genes in P. vulgaris.

Tifton, Ga

I Identified the potential candidate genes responsible for leaf spot and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) resistance in peanut using the whole genome re-sequencing data of two bi-parental RIL populations.

Icrisat, Hyderabad

• Identified, characterized and expression profiled the AP2/ERF TFs, small RNA biogenesis (gene family proteins) and HSP90 chaperones in legume crops. • Contributed in developing the first 58K SNP-array chip to aid genomics assisted breeding in peanut.• Insights into seed development, pant-pathogen interaction and abiotic stress responses in chickpea, pigeonpea and peanut using RNA-seq data.

Columbia, Missouri, Usa

Developed transcriptome to understand the genes involved in flood and drought stress in soybean.

New Delhi Area, India

• Developed and annotated de novo transcriptome assembly of ICCV2 cultivar of chickpea. • Identified single Nucleotide Polymorphic (SNP) and polymorphic Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers among wild and, desi and kabuli cultivars of chickpea.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Dissection Of Ethylene Receptor Gene From An Ethylene Insensitive Gladiolus Flower Petal

As a Ph.D. student, I cloned the ethylene receptor gene identified from an ethylene insensitive system and did cross species.

Molecular Dissection Of Ethylene Receptor Gene From An Ethylene Insensitive Gladiolus Flower Petal

• Quantified the expression of ethylene receptor gene using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction at various stages of flower.