Sk Mukherjee

Biography

Sunil Kumar Mukherjee earned his BSc (1969) from Calcutta University, MSc (Physics) from Visva Bharati University (1974), post-MSc (Theoretical Nuclear Physics) from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (1976) and PhD degree (1983) from Calcutta University on Biophysics under the supervision of Professor RK Poddar. He joined Biochemistry Department of John Hopkins University, USA as a post-doctoral Assistant (1983-84) and later worked in the Microbiology Department of Duke University, USA for six years as a Research Associate. He returned to International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi in the Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1990. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA (1992), and a Visiting Professor at the CNRS, Grenoble, France (2002).

Research Interest

Plant Molecular Biology