Dr. Paramita Palit Email & Phone Number

India

New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Working as a Scientist in DBT National Programme on “National Programme for Quarantine and GM Diagnostics of Genetically Engineered Plant Material”.
• Working as a resource person to train national and international stakeholders.
• Development and implementation of projects, SOPs for the operational maintenance of Containment Facility
• Testing of imported transgenic material for the absence of terminator gene technology

India

DST Women Scientist Award Principal Investigator of own project on legumes interaction under elevated carbon di oxide under changing climate and global warming scenario

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Whole Transcriptome Sequencing (WTS-RNA seq and MicroRNA Seq) of Rice sheath blight pathosystem.
• DBT Program support for Sheath Blight Disease Resistance Transgenic rice: Resistancetest in PR Protein expressing transgenic rice and discovery of new RNA silencing strategies

Cancer Research, Oncogenomics,Currently involved in genome wide methylation studies in HPV mediated Cervical Cancer.

• Broad Research Area: GM detection, GM testing through PCR. RT PCR, Southern BLot, Expression analysis of transngene through RT PCR, Expression studies f transngene derived proteinsImmunological detection of expression.
• Development of binary vector constructs for different physiological and stress responsive traits of legumes, preparation of multigene constructs through Gateway cloning strategy.
• Reference gene Identification of house-keeping genes to be used as reference for copy number detection and expression analysis in Real Time PCR through Southern blot and Real Time PCR.
• Transgene characterization rd29-DREB and Bt in grain legumes (groundnut, pigeon pea, chickpea)
• Copy number estimation through Southern blot and Real Time PCR, expression, analysis of vector back-bone contamination.

• My major research areas here include: SSH libraray, cDNA library, Plant pathogen interaction, plant and abiotic stress (drought) interaction, transcriptomics, functional genomicsFunctional genomics on abiotic stress.
• Phenotypic characterization of 40 Brassica genotypes under water-deficit stress.
• Development of SSH library in 4 different Brassica cultivars (root, flower, leaf tissue) showing tolerance and susceptibility with respect to drought stress.
• Transcriptomics analysis and validation of ESTs of tolerant genotype through Real time PCR
• Development of SSH library in Mothbean with respect to drought stress in different cultivar
• Transcriptome study regarding drought resistance through Microarray analysis

• I have persued my doctoral work here which is broadly on functional genomics of plant pathogen interaction mainly on fungal host interaction ( jute macrophomina pathosystem)
• Development of Differentially regulated Expressed Sequence Tag(EST) Database in Jute with respect to response against Macrophomina phaseolina Using Functional Genomics Approach
• Molecular characterization of Begomoviruses infecting economically important crops in India

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biotechnology

Activities and Societies: Completed Doctoral research in Plant Functional Genomics.

M.Sc, Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: Participation in various co curricular activities like debates, quiz, extempore, attending scientific seminars.

B.Sc, Human Physiology

Activities and Societies: I was an active member of the college Group theatre..and the anchor of all cultural programmes.I won the.