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Vijai Singh

Indrashil University, Institute of Advanced Research, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology

ORCID iD 0000-0002-6394-4370
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Vijai Singh is a full Professor and Dean (Research & Innovation) School of Science at Indrashil University, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He was Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences, School of Science at Indrashil University, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India and also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Synthetic Biology Group at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology (2009) from the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India with a research focus on the development of molecular and immunoassays for diagnosis of Aeromonas hydrophila. He has extensive experience in Synthetic Biology including MAGE, small regulatory RNAs, pathway designing, CRISPR-Cas systems, and microfluidics. His research interests are focused on building novel biosynthetic pathways for production of medically and industrially important biomolecules. Additionally, his laboratory is working on CRISPR-Cas9 tools for genome editing. He has more than 12 years of research and teaching experience in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, microbiology, and industrial microbiology. He has published 104 articles, 73 chapters, 15 books and 3 patents. He serves as an associate editor, editorial board member and reviewer of a number of peer-reviewed journals. He is also a member of the Board of Study and Academic Council of Indrashil University and is the Member Secretary of Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) in the same University.

Employment

  • Indrashil University Professor
    2023 - Present
  • Indrashil University Associate Professor
    2019 - 2023
  • Institute of Advanced Research Assistant Professor
    2016 - 2019
  • Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology Postdoctoral Fellow
    2014 - 2016
  • Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Postdoctoral Research Associate
    2014 - 2014
  • Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology Postdoctoral Fellow
    2009 - 2011

Education

  • National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources
    2003 - 2008

Projects & Funding

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Publications (223)