Dr. Mukesh Jain holds a postgraduate (MSc) degree in Biotechnology from Kurukshetra University, India. He conducted his doctoral studies in Plant Molecular Biology from the University of Delhi South Campus. In 2008, Dr. Jain joined the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi as Staff Scientist. He moved to the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2015. Dr. Jain has done outstanding work in the area of Plant Genomics and Biotechnology. He has made significant contribution in understanding the molecular (transcriptomic and epigenetic) mechanisms underlying various abiotic stress responses and identified several novel key candidate genes involved in stress tolerance. He has been instrumental in the genome and transcriptome sequencing, annotation and analysis of chickpea and rice, and identification/development of functional molecular markers. Dr. Jain is one of very few leaders in generation of genomic resources using next generation sequencing technologies in India. His work has appeared in many peer-reviewed international journals of high repute. For his scientific contributions, Dr. Jain has been honored with several prestigious awards and fellowships from various agencies/academies.
Dr. Jain’s current research interests include understanding the chromatin dynamics, and transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress responses and seed development using advanced state-of-art technologies. His group is using multidisciplinary omics and systems approaches to understand these processes. Research in Dr. Jain’s laboratory is supported primarily by research grants from the DBT, DST and UGC.
Reseach Areas
- Abiotic Stress, Seed Development
- Genome Informatics, Next Generation Genomics
- Gene/Genome Regulation, Regulatory Network Analysis
- Epigenomics and Chromatin Biology