Speakers - PMBWC2024

Biography

Pravesh Kundu is a Ph.D. research scholar in the lab of Dr. Gaurav Zinta at CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, H.P

Pravesh did her B.Sc. and B.Ed. from Kurukshetra University, Haryana; and M.Sc. Botany from Punjabi University, Patiala.

Pravesh qualified national level exam CSIR-UGC-NET-JRF in 2019 with an All India Rank-94 to pursue her Ph.D. studies.

In her Ph.D., she is working on the nutritional quality of Chenopodium species and implementing tools related to metabolomics, transcriptomics, and gene functional analyses. So far, she has published one book chapter, participated in two national and international conferences, and published four research/review articles.

Specifically, she is deciphering the biosynthetic pathway of triterpenoid biosynthesis in Chenopodium quinoa. She is currently identifying and characterizing the upstream transcriptional regulators involved in triterpenoid biosynthesis, followed by the characterization of downstream enzymes involved in specialized metabolite (oleanolic acid) biosynthesis.