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Manoj K. Sharma

Manoj K. Sharma

Manoj K. Sharma
Manoj K. Sharma
Assistant Professor (UGC)
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Biotechnology
Room No
133; Lab 001
Off. Phone
011-26708895
Email
mksharma@jnu.ac.in , manojdarolia@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://cgiatjnu.com
Qualifications

* Ph.D.  Plant Molecular Biology,  University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

* Masters in botanical Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar India.

 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

*  Plant Genomics and Genome Engineering

*  Functional Genomics Tools for Millets

*  Feedstock Improvement for biofuels and Stress Tolerance 

*  Plant Molecular Farming for Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics.

 

Experience

*  Assistant Professor, 2014 onwards, Crop Genetics and Informatics Group

* Visiting Scientist (B-ACER Fellow), University of California, Berkeley (2018-19) 

* Ramalingaswami Fellow, 2014-18.

*  Postdoctoral Employee, University of California Davis CA & Joint BioEnergy Institute Emeryville, California (2009 - 2014) 

*  Research Associate, DPMB, University of Delhi South Campus, (2007 - 2009)

Awards & Honours

*  DBT Ramalingaswami Fellowship 2013

*  JRF & SRF of UGC/CSIR Govt. of India 2002-2007

* ​ Associate Editor, Frontiers in Plant Sciences

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

* Optimization of an efficient and robust regeneration system for Sorghum bicolor: A vital step towards genetic engineering-based sorghum improvement (2022). Plant Physiology Reports, 27, 30-43; Kumar N, Yadav S, Maithili S, Prasad R, Pal M, and Sharma MK. 

* Morphogene-assisted transformation of Sorghum bicolor allows more efficient genome editing (2021) Plant Biotechnology J. 20(4): 748-760; Aregawi K, Shen J, Pierroz G, Bucheli C, Sharma M, Dahlberg J, Owiti J, Lemaux PG

* Magnetic nanoparticles: An emerging nano-based tool to fight against viral infections (2021). Materials Advances, 2, 4479-4496; Jat SK, Gandhi HA, Bhattacharya J and Sharma MK  

* Genomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass (2021). Nature, 590, 438-444; Lovell J, MacQueen A, ….  Sharma MK, ……. Schmutz J.

* Divergence among rice cultivars reveals roles for transposition and epimutation in ongoing evolution of genomic imprinting (2021). PNAS, 118 (29) e2104445118; Rodrigues JA, Hsieh P-H, Ruan D, Nishimura T, Sharma MK, Sharma R, Ye C, Nguyen ND, Nijjar S, Ronald PC, Fischer RL, Zilberman D

* Phylogenomic analysis of R2R3 MYB transcription factors in sorghum and their role in conditioning biofuel syndrome (2020). Current genomics, 21(2):138-154; Singh V, Kumar N, Dwivedi AK, Sharma R and Sharma MK  

* Nanomaterials based gene delivery: A promising method for plant genome engineering (2020). Journal of Materials chemistry B, 8:4165-4175; Jat SK, Bhattacharya J, and Sharma MK. 

* Sweet Sorghum as Biofuel Feedstocks: Recent Advances and Available Resources (2017). biotechnology and Biofuels, 10:146; Mathur S, Umakanth AV, Tonapi VA, Sharma R, and Sharma MK.

* Halophytes as Bioenergy Crops (2016). Front. Plant Sci. 7:1372; Sharma R, Wungrampha S, Singh V, Pareek A and Sharma MK 

* Comparative phylogenomic analysis provides insights into TCP gene functions in Sorghum (2016). Scientific Reports, 6, 38488; Francis A, Dhaka N, Bakshi M, Jung K-H, Sharma MK and Sharma R

* Targeted switchgrass BAC library screening and sequence analysis identified predicted biomass and stress response-related genes (2015). Bioenergy Research, 9:109; Sharma MK, Sharma R, Cao P, Jenkins J, Grimwood J, Zhang j, Udvardi MK, Schmutz J and Ronald PC

* Recent advances in dissecting stress regulatory crosstalk in rice (2013) . Molecular Plant, 6(2), 250-60; Sharma R, David D, Sharma MK and Ronald PC

* Imprinted expression of genes and small RNA is associated with localized hypomethylation of the maternal genome in rice endosperm (2013). PNAS, 110(19):7934-9; Rodrigues JA, Ruan R, Nishimura T, Sharma MK, Sharma R, Ronald PC, Fischer RL and Zilberman D

* Construction of a rice glycoside hydrolase phylogenomic database and identification of targets for biofuel research (2013) . Front. Plant Sci. 26, 330; Sharma R, Cao P, Jung K, Sharma MK & Ronald PC

* A genome-wide survey of switchgrass genome structure and organization (2012). PLoS One, 7 (4) e33892. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033892; Sharma MK, Sharma R, Cao P, Jenkins J, Bartley L, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Rokhsar D and Ronald PC

* Development of an integrated transcript sequence database and a gene expression atlas for gene discovery and analysis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) (2013). The Plant Journal,74(1), 160-73; Zhang JY, Lee YC, Jerez IT, Wang M, ........   Sharma MK, Sharma R, Ronald P, Saha M, Dixon R, Tang Y and Udvardi M

* Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria (2012). Nature Biotechnology, 30, 555-561. doi:10.1038/nbt.2196; Bennetzen JL, Schmutz J, Wang H, Percifield R, Hawkins J, Pontaroli AC, Estep M, Feng L, Vaughn JN, Grimwood J,  ....... Sharma MK, Sharma R, Ronald PC, Panaud O, Kellogg EA, Brutnell T, Doust A, Tuskan GA, Rokshar D, Devos KM.

* Identification, phylogeny and transcript profiling of ERF family genes during development and abiotic stress treatments in tomato (2010). Mol. Gen. Genomics 284, 455-475; Sharma MK, Kumar R, Solanke AU, Sharma R, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK. 

* Genome sequence analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon: insights into grass genome evolution (2010). Nature 463, 763-768; The International Brachypodium Initiative

* Plant as Bioreactors: Recent Developments and Emerging Opportunities (2009) .  Biotechnology Advances 27, 811-832; Sharma AK and Sharma MK

* Expression of toxin co-regulated pilus subunit A (TCPA) of Vibrio cholerae and its immunogenic epitopes fused to cholera toxin B subunit in transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) (2008). Plant Cell Reports 27, 307-318; Sharma MK, Singh N, Jani D, Sisodia R, Thungapathra M, Gautam JK, Meena LS, Singh Y, Ghosh A, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK

* Expression of accessory colonization factor subunit A (ACFA) of Vibrio cholerae and ACFA fused to cholera toxin B subunit in transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)  (2008). Journal of Biotechnology 135, 22-27; Sharma MK, Jani D, Thungapathra M, Gautam JK, Meena LS, Singh Y, Ghosh A, Tyagi AK and Sharma AK

 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

* Textbook of Biotechnology, 11th & 12th, National Council of Education Research & Training, 2020-22. 

*  Gupta P, Sharma R, Sharma MK, Sharma MP, Satpute GK, Garg S, Singla-Pareek SL, Pareek, A. (2016) Signaling cross talk between biotic and abiotic stress responses in soybean In:  Abiotic and Biotic Stresses in Soybean Production, Soybean Production volume 1, Edt. Mohammad Miransari, Elsevier Inc. published on December 31, 2015.

*  Sharma AK, Sharma MK (2014) Plants as host for recombinant DNA. In. Gene and its Engineering; Edited by H. K. Das, Wiley India, CBS Publishers, pp 410-433. 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.