Ahamed Khan
Born and brought up in Azamgarh District of the Uttar Pradesh, Northern India. Our state is famous for verities of Indian cuisine such as Chicken Dum Biryani, Rogan Josh, Nihari Gosht and many more.
Currently, I am working as Marie Curie postdoctoral (MSCA-IF 2020) fellow with Iva’s group, in collaboration with Sara Farrona. I have been interested in plant epi-geno-(omic’s) biology and have hands on training on techniques that involves gene expression & regulation, protein-protein & DNA-protein interactions, recombinant protein expression & purification, molecular cloning’s, confocal analysis etc.
Presently, I am working on PWO proteins evolution, function, and conservation across the green linage. During my Ph.D., I investigated cis-trans interactions involving plant/viral promoters, who comprehend the transcriptional regulation of gene expression under various stress conditions.
Apart from Lab work I love to be around my little daughter and her Babblings. I like to go for swimming and playing shorts off any outdoor games such as cricket, volleyball, and football. Travelling and exploring the new places is one of favourite things to do, in my long weekend or holidays.
Employment
• 2021-Present: Postdoctoral fellow, MSCA-IF-2020 , Iva Mozgová group, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB), Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. (Collaboration: Dr. Sara Farrona, NUI Galway) • 2020: Researcher, Iva Mozgová group, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB), Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. • 2013-2014: Biotech industrial training programme, sponsored by DBT, Government of India, Bhubaneswar, India.
Education
• 2014- 2019 December : Ph.D. in Biotechnology ‘Molecular characterization of novel promoter/s from para-retroviruses and their interaction with stress inducible transcription factors’. Institute of life sciences (ILS), DBT, Government of India, India. • 2011-2013: M.Sc. in Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. • 2007-2010: B.Sc. (Hons.) in Botany, University of Delhi, India.
Prizes and Awards
• 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellows 2020 (MSCA-IF-2020). • 2015 CSIR-UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET), Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India. • 2014 Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in life science (XL), Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India, with 94.48 percentile. • 2014 CSIR-UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET), Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India. • 2013 Award to support the Industrial Training, by qualifying Biotech Consortium Indian Limited (BCIL), Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. • 2011 National Level Combined Entrance Examination for Biotechnology (CEEB) conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), supported by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
Publications
• Nath, V. S., Mishra, A. K., Awasthi, P., Shrestha, A., Matoušek, J., Jakse, J., ... & Khan, A. (2021). Identification and characterization of long non-coding RNA and their response against citrus bark cracking viroid infection in Humulus lupulus. Genomics, 113(4), 2350-2364. • Deb, D., Khan, A., & Dey, N. Phoma diseases (2020): Epidemiology and Control. Plant Pathology. DOI: 10.1111/ppa.13221. • Shrestha, A., Khan, A., & Dey, N. (2019). CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Editing of the CYP82E4-Nicotine N-Demethylase (nnd) Gene in Tobacco Protoplasts. Journal of Plant Biochemistry & Physiology. DOI: 10.4172/2329-9029.100023. • Khan, A., Shrestha, A., Shaju, M., Panigrahi, K. C., & Dey, N. (2019). Identification of miRNA Targets by AtFT Overexpression in Tobacco. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 1-14. • Khan, A., Shrestha, A., Bhuyan, K., Maiti, I. B., & Dey, N. (2018). Structural characterization of a novel full-length transcript promoter from Horseradish Latent Virus (HRLV) and its transcriptional regulation by multiple stress responsive transcription factors. Plant molecular biology, 96 (1-2), 179-196. • Shrestha, A., Khan, A., & Dey, N. (2018). Cis–trans engineering: advances and perspectives on customized transcriptional regulation in plants. Molecular plant, 11(7), 886-898. • Chatterjee, A., Das, N. C., Raha, S., Maiti, I. B., Shrestha, A., Khan, A., ... & Dey, N. (2017). Enrichment of apoplastic fluid with therapeutic recombinant protein for efficient biofarming. Biotechnology progress, 33(3), 726-736.
Book Chapters
• Khan, A., Shrestha, A., & Dey, N. (2019). Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of Novel Pararetroviral Promoters in Plants. In Plant Innate Immunity (pp. 223-236). Humana, New York, NY.