Organizing Committee Member
P.B.Kirti
Professor
University of Hyderabad
India
Biography
Prof. Kirti obtained his PhD degree from the Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1979. He joined the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in 1978 and has been associated with the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, primarily working at the National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology till December 1998. He has joined the Department of Plant Sciences as a Professor in January 1999 and headed it from February 2004 to February 2007. He has worked as a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the University Goettingen (1985-1987), as a Visiting FAO Fellow at the Ohio State Biotechnology Center, Columbus USA (1993). He was a Visiting Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy-New Delhi, Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences-New Delhi, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences-India and a Fellow of the Telangana Akademi of Sciences-Hyderabad. He has been an elected Member- Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology Association of India.
Research Area
Current Research Interests: Activation tagging for gene discovery in rice, Extra-ribosomal functions of ribosomal proteins, Genetic manipulation using plant disease resistance related genes.