Prof. Shekhar C. Mande

(D.G.)
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Govt of India.


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Shekhar C. Mande is a Structural and Computational Biologist.He did his M.Sc. in Physics from University of Nagpur. He holds Doctor of philosophy in Molecular Biophysics, from the Indian Institute of Science. Following his PhD, he joined Prof. Wim G. J. Hol as Post Doctoral Fellow at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. Since 2001, he was senior staff scientist at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics. Between September 2011 and September 2018 He served as director at National Centre for Cell Science in Pune, India. Currently he serves ....(Information extracted from wikipedia Learn more)



Prof. Rajeev K Varshney

JC Bose National Fellow is a Research Program Director,
Genetic Gains & Director, Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology at ICRISAT.


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Rajeev K Varshney is recognized as a leader in genome sequencing, genomics-assisted breeding, translational genomics and capacity building in international agriculture. He has made a pioneering contribution by integrating advanced discoveries in genomics with crop improvement in developing countries. Among different noted contributions, he has genome sequences of 10 crops including pigeonpea, chickpea, peanut and pearl millet and several molecular breeding products in chickpea, peanut and pigeonpea to his credit. Varshney is an elected fellow of all four science academies of India (INSA, NASI, IASc, NAAS) as well as several .... (Information extracted from wikipedia Learn more)