| Genetic and metabolic engineering of Synechocystis for efficient production of antiproliferative and UV-A absorbing secondary metabolite, scytonemin | Dr. Jogadhenu Syama Sundar Prakash, Reader, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology |
| Discovery of novel cell-autonomous host pathways and counteracting immune evasion strategies employed by vacuolar pathogens - an approach to identify new antimicrobial hostfactors and novel microbial targets | Dr. Arun Kumar Haldar, Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences |
| Dissecting resistance to plant parasitic nematodes in wheat using molecular breeding and functional genomics | Dr. Shailendra Sharma, Chaudhary Charan Singh University (CCS), Meerut | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences |
| Dissecting the molecular interface between the biotrophic pathogen Sporisorium scitamineum and its host - Sugarcane | Dr. Ramesh Sundar Amalraj, Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology), ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute (SBI), Coimbatore | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences |
| Effect of different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal isolates on heavy metal uptake, growth and productivity in Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp. genotypes grown under cadmium (Cd) stress | Dr. Neera Garg, Professor, Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences |
| Engineering type I interferon that binds with different affinity to the receptor which modulate biological read out | Dr. Nanaocha Sharma, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology |
| Evaluation of M.tb HIV infection, M.tb-HIV coinfection derived exosome on innate immune responses and in their therapeutic potential | Dr. Mairaj Ahmed Ansari, National Jalma Institute for Leprosy and other
Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, Uttar Pradesh | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Medical Sciences |
| Exploring a novel role of SkMSM1and SkR2R3-MYB315- like transcriptional regulators in the development of prickles of Solanum khasianum | Dr. Pratibha Misra, Principal Scientist, Tissue Culture and Transformation Laboratory, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology |
| Fine mapping of nuclear male sterility gene ms10 in chilli pepper and its introgression from chilli pepper to bell pepper through MAS | Dr. Major Singh Dhaliwal, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences |
| Functional Characterization and Implications of Plant Inositol Pyrophosphate Kinase | Dr Ajay Kumar Pandey, Scientist-E, National Agri - Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Punjab | 2017 | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India | Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences |