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P. Yadukrishnan

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Plant Biology
Room No: 3277-K,
Department of Biological Sciences,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.
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Fellowships, Awards & Honors

 
Fellowships & Qualifications
  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India (2024-2029)
  • National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India (2023-2024)
  • C.V. Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2020-2022) 
  • Research Associateship by Department of Biotechnology (DBT-RA), Government of India (2023) (Declined)
  • D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (Category – I, Higher Fellowship) by University Grants Commission, Government of India (2021) (Declined)
  • FAAC International Travel Grant from IISER Bhopal for attending and delivering an oral presentation in the Young Researchers Symposium on Plant Photobiology (YRSPP), Cologne, Germany, jointly organized by the  University of Cologne and the University of Freiburg (2018)
  • Junior and Senior Research Fellowships of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (DBT-JRF & SRF) for pursuing Ph.D. (2014-2019)
  • Junior Research Fellowship (declined) and National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India (2013)
  • Cleared National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) (2015)
  • Cleared Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) – Biotechnology (2014)
  • Science Academies' (INSA-NASI-IASc) Summer Research Fellowship (2013)
  • Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Scholarship from the Government of India during the Master’s degree program (2012-2014)

 

Awards & Honors
  • Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award, National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Allahabad  (2021)
  • Young Scientist Award, Indian Society for Plant Physiology (ISPP), New Delhi (2021)
  • Selected as Assistant Features Editor of the journal Plant Physiology by the American Society of Plant Biologists (2022 - 2023)
  • Selected among the global cohort of Plantae Fellows by the American Society of Plant Biologists (2022)
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, EMBO-International Symposium on Plant Photobiology, IISER Bhopal (2024)
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, MCB Postdoctoral Symposium, IISc Bengaluru (2023)
  • Best Lightning Talk Award, 4th National Postdoctoral Symposium, jointly organized by Bangalore Life Science Cluster (BLiSC), India Bioscience, and IISER-Kolkata, India (2021)
  • Best Flash Talk Award (Runner-up), 6th National Postdoctoral Symposium, jointly organized by Bangalore Life Science Cluster (BLiSC) and India Bioscience at Ashoka University, Sonipat (2023)
  • Selected for participating in the 15th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM) organized by IndiaBioscience and hosted by IIT Gandhinagar & Ahmedabad University (2023)
  • Ranked first in the university in M.Sc. Agri (Molecular Biology & Biotechnology), G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India (2014)
  • Merit medal for Best Outgoing Student (2008-12 UG Batch), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture & Research Institute (PAJANCOA & RI), Karaikal, Pondicherry, India (2012)