Dr. Felix Bast
Assistant Professor
Centre for Plant Sciences
Central University of Punjab
India
Biography
Dr. Felix Bast Assistant Professor Centre for Plant Sciences School of Basic and Applied Sciences Central University of Punjab
Research Interest
Interested with the process of evolution, and tracing it using comparative analysis; be it biological species, biochemical compounds, or even languages. My current research focuses can be broadly grouped into five sections: Marine Biology: Taxonomy, phylogeography and molecular systematics of algae, including marine macro and micro algae, epi/endophytic algae, terrestrial algae, and freshwater algae. Botany: Taxonomy, phylogeography and molecular systematics of a number of plants, including bryophytes (mosses), mangroves, medicinal shrubs: Tulsi, Sarpagandha, Aswagandha, Brahmi, Betel, Shankapushpa, and Ashoka, trees: Ficus and Salvadora. Linguistics: Tracing linguistic phylogeny of Indian languages using computational phylogenetics. Medicinal Chemistry: Phylogenetic Selection Of Target Taxa For Anti-Proliferative And Anti-Metastatic Marine Natural Products From Seaweeds Of Indian Coast Cancer Research: Phylogenetic structures in clonal evolution of metastatic cancers; Germ-line SNPs in BRCA-1 of Malwa Population, Genotoxicity of drinking water from Malwa region, Punjab.
Publications
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BAST, F. 2015. Taxonomic reappraisal of Monostromataceae (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) Based on Multi-Locus Phylogeny. Webbia- Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Geography (Tailor and Francis, UK) (Accepted) DOI: 10.1080/00837792.2015.1004845
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BAST, F. 2015. A Brief History of Earth. Ocean Digest, 2 (1) p 7-8. ISSN: 23941928
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BAST, F., BHUSHAN, S. AND JOHN, A.A. 2015. Brown barcoded as red but reality is green! How epiphytic green algae confuse phycologists? Webbia- Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Geography (Tailor and Francis, UK) (Accepted) DOI: 10.1080/00837792.2015.1014217
