Subeer S. Majumdar

Biography

Education and training: Dr. Subeer S. Majumdar has done his M.Sc. from Nagpur University and did his Ph.D. work at National Institute of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, India. He did his Postdoctoral Research at School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA and at Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, USA. He was working at National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi prior to assuming this responsibility. Research experience and contributions: Dr. Majumdar’s lab works in the field of animal biotechnology, genomics and animal reproduction. His present research focus lies in the field of... Production of therapeutic proteins for animal and human in milk of farmed animals. Attempts to generate bulls with X chromosome bearing sperm only to increase production of female offspring (cow). New Methods of transgenesis for biomedical research and to facilitate production of transgenic cattle, goat and buffalo. To increase quality of herd: disease resistant and more milk yielding animals. Livestock genomics. Alternative to knock out technology, utilizing shRNA to generate transgenic animals. Selected awards, honours and fellowships: Fellowships of Science Academics: Fellow: The National Academy of Sciences, 2009 Fellow: Indian National Science Academy, 2009 Fellow: Indian Academy of Sciences, 2014 Membership of Professional Societies: Member, the Endocrine Society, USA Member, Society for the Study of Reproduction, USA

Research Interest

Gene and protein Engineering, Genomics, Functional Genomics, Transgenic animals