User:Prabodh Trivedi

Prabodh Kumar Trivedi (born June 15, 1969) is an Indian Molecular Biologist and a staff scientist Grade Senior Principal Scientist at the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR-NBRI). Known for his research on Pathway Elucidation and Engineering of Secondary Plant Products and Environmental Technology, he is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him TATA innovative Fellowship, for his contributions to the Plant Science.

Biography
Prabodh K. Trivedi was born on June 15, 1969 in Unnao in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. After completing early schooling at Subhash Inter College, Bangarmau and Mahatma Gandhi Inter College, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, he pursued his graduation in Science (1997) and secured a master's degree in Biochemistry from University of Lucknow in 1989. Prabodh K. Trivedi did his doctoral research at the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow which earned him a PhD from Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad (now Ayodhya). His post-doctoral studies were at the Maryland, USA. After completing his PhD, he joined the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow as a scientist where he continues his research, holding the position of Senior Principal Scientist and area coordinator for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.

Professional profile
Professional profile Trivedi has more than twenty three years of research experience in Plant Genomics and Biotechnology with major emphasis on Elucidation and engineering for secondary plant pathways and Environmental biotechnology for heavy metal stress tolerance and accumulation in plants. Several competitive grants as different R&D projects in above areas have been funded by various funding agencies. He co-ordinated CSIR-Network project entitled "Genomics of Medicinal Plants and Agronomically Important Traits" consisting of seven CSIR laboratories involving more than 50 scientists and large number of research students. He has developed collaborations with various groups within as well as outside country to carryout projects related to interdisciplinary science. Due to expertise developed in the area of pathway engineering of secondary plant product development, Department of Biotechnology supported Centre of Excellent on “Secondary plant product pathway engineering for enhanced nutritional quality and yield”. In addition, due to leadership in plant science research in country, National Academy of Agriculture Sciences (NAAS) and National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) have elected him as Fellow of these academies as well as DBT has selected for TATA Innovation Awards-2017. At the institute level, he is coordinating research and development activities of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology as well as heading Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) division. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 227 of them. He has contributed chapters to books published by others. Trivedi is a member of the editorial boards of journals such as Nature Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE and Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants (Springer). He was convenor of the International Plant Physiology Congress (IPPC-2018), held at Lucknow in December 2018.

Awards and honors
Trivedi was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2014, National Academy of Agriculture Sciences, India (FNAAS) in 2016 and International Society of Environment Botanist (FISEB) in 2017. He was selected for the TATA Innovation Fellowship by the Department of Biotechnology in 2018. His work was recognized as CSIR-Technology Award-2015 in association with CSIR-CIMAP, CSIR-CDRI and CSIR-IICB for Development of Withania somnifera improved varieties and Agro-technology. Trivedi is a Member, Board of Studies of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). He is member of Advisory Committee for Biotechnology, The Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh (CST, U.P.) as well as Institutional Bio Safety committee (IBSC) of several institutes.

Number of Research Publications

Total publications in SCI Journals: 132 Book Chapter: 13 For details: