Shweta Chouhan
Agricultural
Barkatullah University
India
Biography
Shweta Chouhan has completed her Ph.D. at the age of 29 years from Barkatullah University, Bhopal in Microbiology. She is working as Project Officer in Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology, the M.P. Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India a government organization with 7 years of research experience. She has published more than 12 research papers in national/international journals and 14 abstracts. She has submitted 16 unique DNA sequences of plants in NCBI Databank. In regular practice, has a good command on analysis of sequences, gene prediction and annotation, molecular diversity assessment using DNA sequence and dominant markers mostly by frequent population genetic softwares like DnaSP, Arlequin, Popgene, MEGA, GeneAlEx, PICcalc etc.. She is actively involved in creation and authentication of DNA barcode for identification of medicinal plants. She is also engaged in the organization of more than 37 institutional training programs on various subjects like molecular biology, microbiology, DNA fingerprinting, molecular diversity, HPTLC, plant tissue culture, microbial analysis of herbal drugs, water and soil.
Research Interest
Agricultural