Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur

PARTNER

Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur holds a Ph.D. in Biotechnology and leads the Research Theme on Cell,Molecular biology and Genetic engineering at ICRISAT. She has over 15 years of experience indeveloping tools towards candidate gene discovery and validations, genetic and genome engineering as well as translational research activities in grain legumes and dry land cereals of SAT. Her team combines multiple platforms to develop and test new research interventions specifically targeting constraints for which no genetic traits are available in conventional plant breeding applications. Combining forward and reverse biological engineering tools and technologies and more recently integrate cutting edge CRISPR-Cas based gene editing technologies, strong global collaborations backing efforts on deploying for trait and genome engineering in grain legumes, sorghum and millets. Pooja has to her credit, several advanced certifications on several components of Intellectual property management for commercialization of biotech products. She has published over 100 research communications in various international peer reviewed journals and books besides several popular articles in various newsletters.

Email: p.bhatnagar@cgiar.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Poojabmathur