Teaching :

To impart teaching in Biochemistry in UG/PG programme of the University.

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Research :

To conduct basic and strategic research for the growth of agriculture and allied fields.

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Extension :

Transfer of innovative technologies to the farmers through KVKs

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The flagship areas :-

• Carry out basic and strategic research in the frontier areas of Biochemistry for the development of novel plant types with improved productivity, nutrition and enhanced resistance towards biotic and abiotic stresses
• Biochemical prospecting of medicinal and aromatic plants for bioactive natural products having antioxidant, antifungal and anticancer activities.

	Name :	Dr. Sanjay Guleria
	Designation :	Professor & Head
	Area of Specialization :	Biochemistry of induced resistance in plants, Isolation and characterization of bioactive molecules from medicinal plants
	E mail :	guleria71@gmail.com
	Contact No :	+91-9469211245
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	Name :	Dr. Moni Gupta
	Designation :	Professor
	Area of Specialization :	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
	E mail :	moniguptaskuast@gmail .com
	Contact No :	+91-9469160994
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	Name :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
	Designation :	Associate Professor
	Area of Specialization :	Natural Products
	E mail :	vikas.skuast@gmail.com
	Contact No :	+91-9419634588, 9469752697
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Name of Project	Principal Investigator	Funding Agency	Duration and start of date	Remarks
Free radical scavenger and antioxidant activities of selected north-western Himalayan medicinal plants	Dr. Sanjay Guleria	DST, GoI, New Delhi	Three Years	-
Factors affecting the olive oil quality and characterization of olive oil using standard protocols for technology transfer for effective marketing of the oil	Dr. A.K. Tiku / Dr. Sanjay Guleria	ICAR, New Delhi	Three Years	-
Biochemical prospecting of some traditionally used north western Himalayan medicinal plant for antifungal metabolites	Dr. Sanjay Guleria	DBT, GoI, New Delhi	Three Years	-
Expression profiling of dof genes for accumulation of seed storage proteins and nitrogen metabolism in common beans (Rajmash)	Dr. Moni Gupta	DBT, GoI, New Delhi	Three Years	-

Post Graduate

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Doctorate (PhD)

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Name :	Asmat Farooq
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PROTEIN EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF COMMON BEAN UNDER MINERAL STRESS
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2024

Name :	Aasiya Majeed
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	STUDIES ON POLYMER BASED NANO STRUCTURES FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE OF ESSENTIAL OILS, THEIR CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOACTIVE PROPERTIES
Major :	Dr.Sanjay Guleria
Year :	2023

Name :	Arjumand Zahoor
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	BIOAUGMENTATION OF MUSHROOMS FOR PRODUCTION OF BIOACTIVE PROTEINS
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2023

Name :	Saiyana Sharma
Degree :	M.Sc.
Topic :	EXPLORING ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTIBACTERIAL EFFICACY OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM KANDI BELT OF JAMMU REGION
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2023

Name :	Proloy Sankar Dev Roy
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	BIOFORTIFICATION OF FRUIT JUICES USING PROBIOTICS AND ITS EFFECT ON BIOCHEMICAL,PHYSICO-CHEMICAL,FUNCTIONALAND SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2023

Name :	Chandan Thappa
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	EXPLORING ANTICANCER,ANTIOXIDENT AND ANTIBACTERIAL POTENTIAL OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS OF BHADERWAH REGION OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2023

Name :	Amrinder Singh
Degree :	PhD
Topic :	BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF ANTHOCYANINS IN COMMON BEAN (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2022

Name :	Tabassum Un Nissa
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES FROM EDIBLE MUSHROOMS
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2022

Name :	Neha Sharma
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	STUDIES ON NANO-ENCAPSULATION OF ESSENTIAL OILS FROM SELECTED MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR IMPROVED ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES.
Major :	Dr.Sanjay Guleria
Year :	2022

Name :	Khalid Hussain Salaria
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF FERMENTATION BASED BIOTRANSFORMATION ON BIOACTIVE PROPERTIES OF MEDICINAL PLANT EXTRACTS
Major :	Dr. Sanjay Guleria
Year :	2022

Name :	Tenzin Topgyal
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	PHYSIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS IN RHIZOBACTERIA COMMON BEAN INTERACTIONS.
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2022

Name :	Sumit Sharma
Degree :	M.Sc.
Topic :	BROMATOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF FABA BEAN SEEDS FOR APPLICATION IN FOOD INDUSTRY
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2022

Name :	Faiqa Aiman
Degree :	M.Sc.
Topic :	STUDIES ON THE USE OF ESSENTIAL OILS AS BIOAVAILABILITY ENHANCER OF SYNTHETIC ANTIBIOTIC COMPOUNDS
Major :	Dr.Sanjay Guleria
Year :	2022

Name :	Shubam Kailas Padekar
Degree :	M.Sc.
Topic :	STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF PROBIOTIC BIOTRANSFORMATION ON PHYTOCHEMICAL PROFILE AND BIOACTIVE PROPERTIES OF MEDICINAL PLANT EXTRACTS.
Major :	Dr. Sanjay Guleria
Year :	2022

Name :	Nitika Jojra
Degree :	M.Sc.
Topic :	BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF FABA BEAN (Vicia faba L.)
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2022

Name :	Thombre Mahadeo Uttamrao
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR CHANGES IN COMMON BEAN DURING ANTHRACNOSE DISEASE DEVELOPMENT
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2022

Name :	Manoj B.S.
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	"ENHANCEMENT OF DROUGHT RESILIENCE IN RED KIDNEY BEAN (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) THROUGH BIO-PRIMING"
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2022

Name :	Shilpa Raina
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	EVALUATION OF SOME BOTANICALS FROM J&K: POSSIBLE ANTICANCER ROLE USING IN VITRO CYTOTOXIC ASSAYS.
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2021

Name :	Rashmi Chalotra
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EFFECT OF ELICITATION ON BIOACTIVE PROPERTIES AND POLYPHENOL METABOLISM IN SOME EDIBLE SPROUTS.
Major :	Dr. Sanjay Guleria
Year :	2021

Name :	Zahid Nabi Sheikh
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	DIVERSITY ANALYSIS OF Prunus armeniaca (APRICOT) BY MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL APPROACHES.
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2021

Name :	Sweeta Manhas
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	BIOPROSPECTATION OF MICROORGANISMS FROM NORTH WESTERN HIMALAYAS FOR ASPARAGINASE ENZYME.
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2021

Name :	Risha Bharti
Degree :	M.Sc.
Topic :	IN VITRO CYTOTOXIC EFFECT OF INDIAN SPICES AGAINST HUMAN CANCER CELL LINES
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2021

Name :	Navneet Kour
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	EVALUATION OF SOME FRUITS FROM JAMMU SUBTROPICS: POSSIBLE ANTICANCER ROLE USING IN VITRO CYTOTOXICITY ASSAYS.
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2020

Name :	Sheikh Mansoor Shafi
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	DNA BARCODING OF DIFFERENT Venturia inaequalis STRAINS AND THEIR EFFECT ON PAL BIOCHEMISTRY PATHWAY OF malus domistica BORKH
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2020

Name :	Anshu Wali
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	PESTICIDE DEGRADATION POTENTIAL OF WHITE ROT FUNGI USING BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS
Major :	Dr. Moni Gupta
Year :	2020

Name :	Kanika Sharma
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	STUDIES ON PHYTOCHEMICAL PROFILE, ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF EXTRACTS/ESSENTIAL OILS AND SILVER NANO- PARTICLES SYNTHESIZED FROM SELECTED MEDICINAL PLANTS
Major :	Dr. Sanjay Guleria
Year :	2019

Name :	Asima Hamid Mir
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	EVALUATION OF GLUTEN PROTEIN FRACTIONS IN INDIAN WHEAT CULTIVARS (TRITICUM AESTIVUM) FOR THEIR ANTIGENIC PROPERTIES.
Major :	Dr. S.A. Mallick
Year :	2018

Name :	Arti Heer
Degree :	Ph.D
Topic :	DETERMINATION OF IN VITRO ANTICANCER AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM JAMMU REGION
Major :	Dr. Vikas Sharma
Year :	2017