User talk:Tanveer Bilal Pirzadah

Tanveer Bilal is an Indian Bioresource Scientist working at the Department of Bioresources, University of Kashmir. Known for his research on the stress biology of plants, he is an elected fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, Greece, award winner of 5th International Scientists award and the fellow member of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists for his contributions in Biosciences.

Biography
Tanveer Bilal was born in Bandipora in the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir. After completing early schooling at Sainik School Manasbal, he pursued he graduated in science from Government Degree College Baramullah (J&K) in 2008 and secured a master's degree from the University of Kashmir in 2011. Subsequently, he did his M.Phil at the Lovely Professional University and doctoral research at the University of Kashmir from where he earned a PhD in 2017.

Professional Profile
Tanveer Bilal Pirzadah, PhD is Assistant Professor at Amar Singh College, Cluster University Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. After completing his doctorate (Bioresources; specialization in Plant Stress Physiology and Biofuels) from University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, in 2017, he worked as an assistant professor at the Cluster University Srinagar. Dr. Tanveer has about 8 years of research and teaching experience in bioresources management, biofuels, plant stress physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-metal interactions as well as in environmental studies. He also has to his credit 20 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 22 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Tanveer serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several international scientific journals. He is also member of the World Academy of Sciences and Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists. Currently, Dr. Tanveer is engaged in studying the plant processes at proteomic, metabolomic and molecular level to better understand the dynamic plant-metal interactions.

Research Interest
Contamination of soil and water by heavy metals (HM) represents a major environmental hazard to human health. Soil pollution by HM currently affects about 235 million hectares and thus threatens future food security. Understanding how plants respond to HM is crucial in the quest to improve plant capacity to resist to HM pollution. Inside the plant, different processes contribute to enhance metal tolerance; including extracellular immobilization (cell wall and other carbohydrates), active exclusion into the apoplast, chelation in the cytosol and sequestration into the vacuoles. Therefore, a better comprehension of the molecular mechanisms controlling these processes, as well as understanding metal toxicity and accumulation in plants, is of prime importance to design new strategies of phytoremediation via engineered plants or natural hyperaccumulators but also for phytomining and food crop biofortification. This is also very important for the selection of crops with low HM contents, or from an ecotoxicological point of view, for example to identify biomarkers of pollution. I have worked on proteomics and stress biology of buckwheat-an important pseudocereal which is relevant to economical aspect in terms of crop productivity. With over 7 years of active research experience working in the area of Plant Stress Physiology, Metabolomics, and Proteomics. I have published research articles in peer-reviewed journals and have written several book chapters of international repute. I am interested in evaluating the impact of HM stresses on cell function and elucidating the biochemical and physiological defence mechanisms adopted by plants to counter these stresses. Tanveer is a member of the editorial boards of journals such as Journal of Plant Sciences, Journal of Plant Stress Physiology. He edited the book, Nanobiotechnology in Agriculture: An Approach towards Sustainability and has contributed chapters to books published by others.

Awards
•	Won first prize in Poster Presentation in National Conference on Biotechnology and Environment, organized by Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New-Delhi and National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), New-Delhi on 10-11th April 2017 •	Merit Scholarship during Ph.D from the Department of Bioresources, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India

Book Published
•	Pirzadah TB and Hakeem KR. (2020). Nanobiotechnology in Agriculture: An Approach towards Sustainability. Springer Nature Switzerland. eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39978-8. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39977-1. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-39978-8.

Publications
Link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=fkQRfeEAAAAJ&hl=en