Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University,  Kashmere Gate,  Delhi-110403
 
Name: Prof. P.C. Sharma
Designation: Professor
Subject: Biotechnology
School: University School of Biotechnology Educational Qualification: M.Sc. (Ag. Botany), M.Phil, Ph.D. in Agricultural Botany
Email: pcsharma@ipu.edu Phone:  +91 - 11- 23900220 (O), Fax: +91 - 011-23865941, 23900111, 23900221
Address: Official: University School of Bio-Technology, G.G.S. Indraprastha University, Kashmere Gate, Delhi-110403 Correspondence:University School of Bio-Technology, G.G.S. Indraprastha University, Kashmere Gate, Delhi-110403
Specialization: DNA fingerprinting, genome mapping, comparative genomics Field of Interest:   Genetics, Plant Molecular Biology and Agricultural Biotechnology

 

Teaching/Research Experience:   

Dr. P.C. Sharma did his M.Phil. & Ph. D in Genetics from Meerut University . He has 25 years teaching and research experience. Prior to joining this University in Nov. 2002, he served in Choudhury Charan Singh University , Meerut as Lecturer and subsequently as Reader in the Department of Agricultural Botany, and as Coordinator, Department of Biotechnology. His main teaching and research areas cover genetics, plant molecular biology, agricultural biotechnology and bioinformatics. He has over 70 research publications to his credit. He has availed INSADFG International Exchange Fellowship in 1992 and 1998, UNESCO biotechnology Fellowship in 2000 at plant molecular biology unit of Frankfurt University , Frankfurt , Germany . During these visits, he worked on development of molecular markers for DNA fingerprinting and genome mapping in chickpea. In 2002, he was awarded long term JSPS invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan , which he availed at Iwate Biotechnology Research Centre, Kitakami , Japan to work in front line areas like Virus Induced Gene Silencing and Serial Analysis of Gene Expression. His group's most recent research on in silico mining of microsatellites has been published in high ranking international journals and led to the development of two highly accessed microsatellite databases. He has been PI/Co-Pi in different research projects sanctioned by DBT, DRDO, ICAR, etc. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

Selected Publications

  • Ashutosh, Kumar, P., Kumar, D. V., Sharma, P. C. , Prakash, S. and Bhat, S. R. (2008). A novel orf108 co-transcribed with the atpA gene is associated with cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassica juncea carrying Moricandia arvensis cytoplasm. Plant Cell Physiol. 49(2):284-9 .
  • Aishwarya, V., and Sharma, P.C. (2008). UgMicroSatdb: database for mining microsatellites from unigenes. Nucleic Acids Res. 36(Database issue):D53-6
  • Chauhan, T., Lal, K. K., Singh, R. K., Kapoor, D., Mohindra, V. and Sharma, P. C. (2007). Genetic differentiation in the population of Indian major carp, Cirrhinus mrigala: evidence from allozyme and microsatellite markers. Aquaculture 269(1-4):135-149.
  • Sharma, P. C., Grover, A. and Kahl, G. (2007). Mining microsatellites in eukaryotic genomes. Trends Biotechnol. 25:490-8.
  • Chakraborty, A., Murthy, N. S., Chintamani, Bhatnagar, D., Mohil, R. S., Sharma, P. C. and Saxena, S. (2007). CYP 17 gene polymorphism and its association with high-risk North-Indian breast cancer patients. J. Human Genetics 52:159-165.
  • Aishwarya, V., Grover, A. and Sharma, P. C . (2007). EuMicroSatdb : A databse for microsatellites in sequenced genomes of eukaryotes. BMC Genomics 8 : 225 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-225.
  • Grover, A. and Sharma, P. C . (2007). Microsatellite motifs with moderate GC content are clustered around genes on Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 2. In Silico Biol. 7, 0021.
  • Grover, A., Aishwarya, V. and Sharma P. C . (2007). Biased distribution of microsatellite motifs in the rice genome. Mol. Genet. Genomics 277:469-480.