Meet Your Fellow Companion: Siddharth Tripathi

摘要

I earned a MS and PhD in botany from Lucknow University in India. After qualifying for a research fellowship from the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, the leading Indian R&D organization, I joined the Plant Gene Expression Laboratory at the National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow for doctoral research. My doctoral research was in the plant biotechnology area and was focused on discovering genes involved in abscission, a process by which plant parts are shed to discard unwanted parts or allow for seed dispersal. By utilizing the rose as a model plant, I identified several novel genes involved in petal abscission.