Hena Dhar

About

Dr. Hena Dhar is working on designing smart microbes for the production of high-value biomolecules of industrial and nutraceutical importance. She has expertise in the area of microbiology, enzymology, microbial genomics, metagenomics, and metabolic engineering. She is working on the exploration and characterization of microbes from soil and water samples to identify novel genes and microbes. Her research interests also include studying the role of silicate solubilizing bacteria for sustainable agriculture and microbial remediation of arsenic pollution. Her significant research achievements include the development of a rapid method for the detection of microbial cellulases, recombinant production and characterization of detergent-compatible endoglucanase enzyme, and developing a microbial source of omega-3 fatty acid.

Employment

• Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• RIMT University Assistant Professor
  2023 - 2024
• National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute DST-INSPIRE Faculty
  2017 - 2022

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (18)

• Tomato as a Model Plant to Understand Plant–Microbial Interactions
  Biotechnological Advances for Disease Tolerance in Plants 2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8874-7_13
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• Transcriptomics of Host–Pathogen Interaction
  Biotechnological Advances for Disease Tolerance in Plants 2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8874-7_16
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• Biotechnology and urban agriculture: A partnership for the future sustainability
  Plant Science 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2023.111903
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• Functional attributes of bioactive peptides of bovine milk origin and application of in silico approaches for peptide prediction and functional annotations
  Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 2023 DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2023.2212803
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• Microbial remediation and plant-microbe interaction under arsenic pollution
  Science of the Total Environment 2023 DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2022.160972
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• Genome-Wide Identification of Aquaporin Genes in Adzuki Bean (Vigna angularis) and Expression Analysis under Drought Stress
  International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232416189
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• Genomic Insights into Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Producing Shewanella sp. N2AIL from Fish Gut
  Biology 2022 DOI: 10.3390/biology11050632
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• Genomic Landscape Highlights Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Silicate Solubilization, Stress Tolerance, and Potential Growth-Promoting Activity of Bacterium Enterobacter sp. LR6
  Cells 2022 DOI: 10.3390/CELLS11223622
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• Heavy metal stress in rice: Uptake, transport, signaling, and tolerance mechanisms
  Physiologia Plantarum 2021 DOI: 10.1111/PPL.13491
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• Production and characterization of microalgal exopolysaccharide as a reducing and stabilizing agent for green synthesis of gold-nanoparticle: a case study with a Chlorella sp. from Himalayan high-altitude psychrophilic habitat
  Journal of Applied Phycology 2021 DOI: 10.1007/S10811-021-02580-3
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