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Vice
Chancellor
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Address | : : : |
DEEPAK PENTAL
Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor
University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007 | | |
Phone | : | 011-27667011,
27667190
011-27667049 (Fax) | | |
Email | : | vc@du.ac.in | |
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| Institution | Degree
| Year | | Rutgers
University | Ph.D. | 1974-78 | | Punjab
University | M.Sc.
(Hons School) | 1971-73 | | Punjab
University | B.Sc.
(Hons School) | 1968-71 |
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| Organisation | Duration | Position | | University
of Delhi | 2005
- onwards | Vice
Chancellor | University
of Delhi
South Campus | 2000
- 2005 | Director | | Centre
for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants (CGMCP), University of Delhi | 1995
- onwards | Director | University
of Delhi
South Campus | 1994
- 1996 | Dean,
Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Applied Sciences (FIAS) | Department
of Genetics
University of Delhi
South Campus | 1993
- onwards | Professor | | Tata
Energy Research Institute (TERI), New Delhi | 1985
- 1993 | Fellow | | Plant
Genetic Manipulation Group, University of Delhi | 1978
- 1984 | Post-doctoral
and University Research Fellow | |
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- Elected
member of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Academy of Sciences,
Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.
- Member
Governing body of CSIR.
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Member editorial board of Journal of Biosciences and Current Science.
- Member
of various Project Advisory Committees in DST and DBT from 1986 onwards.
- Member
of RAC of CIMAP and IHBT.
- Awarded
a Punjab University medal for first position in Diploma in Gandhian Philosophy.
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Awarded a Biotechnology Career Fellowship in 1986 by the Rockefeller Foundation
to work at the Max-Planck Institute in Koln.
- Coordinated
two major national network programmes:
- “Development
of Transgenics in Four Major Crops – Cotton, Rice, Mungbean and Tomato for
Resistance to Biotic Stresses” funded by Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
- “Functional
Genomics in Plants: Development and Use of the Technologies for Gene Discovery
and Expression Modulation” funded by The New Millennium Indian Technology
Leadership Initiative (NMITLI).
- Edited
a special issue of Current Science (Vol. 84, 2003) on Transgenic Crops. Besides
editing the volume contributed three articles:
- Contributed
an article “Transgenic Crops for Indian Agriculture: An Assessment of Their
Relevance and Effective Use” in ‘Policy and Institutional Issues and
Challenges in Indian Agriculture’ ed: Dr. Ramesh Chand, Oxfam, In Press.
- Sixty-one
publications in peer-reviewed journals on genetic manipulation of plants.
- Current
research work on breeding of mustard and cotton through the development of transgenics
and marker-assisted breeding.
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