Dr. Manasi Mishra has been working as DST-INSPIRE Faculty at Department of Life Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP. She received her Ph.D in Biotechnology from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. She is also a recipient of short-term DAAD fellowship and conducted collaborative research at EMBL Hamburg, Germany. After completing her doctoral research, she worked at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.

Plant immunity proteins and peptides, bioactive peptides and their therapeutic applications

She has been actively working in the area of plant immunity proteins and peptides involved in defense against insect pest infestation and those with relevance in the context of crop improvement. Her research has been focused on structure-function correlation of diverse plant defense proteins, molecular diversity and their functional significance. She is also working extensively towards understanding the cyclic peptides distribution within individual plants and their tissues, factors influencing cyclotide expression, gene architecture, post-translational mechanism leading to cyclization, bioactivities and designing synthetic cyclotides directed towards molecular targets in human parasitic diseases like malaria and leishmania. She has published her research in international peer-reviewed journals and presented in international conferences.

Educational Qualifications

• 2004 B.Sc. (Hons.) Banaras Hindu University
• 2006 M.Sc. Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University
• 2013 Ph.D. (Biotechnology) CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory (University of Pune)

Work Experience

• 07/16 – Present DST-INSPIRE Faculty, Department of Life Sciences, Shiv Nadar University
• 2016 - Research Associate III, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi
• 10/13 - 09/15 Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Republic

Teaching & Research Interests:

Research Interests: Plant immunity proteins and peptides, Plant bioactive molecules, Botanical therapeutics, Molecular diversity and evolution

Teaching Interests: Plant physiology and biochemistry