Indira Singh

Indira Singh who currently works as the Lead – Office of the School of Environment and Sustainability (SES) has a PhD degree in Genetics from South Campus, Delhi University. Her PhD work led to the development of transgenics in Indian mustard with improved seed-oil quality to reduce rancidity of foods prepared in mustard oil. Post her PhD, she has acquired a post-doctoral training in Systems Biology from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA. Here she worked on understanding the cross-talk between nucleotide, TOR and amino acids metabolism pathways in yeast. Upon her return to India, she joined the Department of Biochemistry, Delhi University to teach budding biochemists the basics of molecular biology, cell biology and genetics for the next four years. As life took her to Bengaluru, she worked for a year in NCBS on rice epigenetics following which she joined ATREE’s Development Office. She spent almost seven years at ATREE undertaking various portfolios for fundraising and institutional development leading to multiple grants, awards, collaborations, and developments for ATREE. At ATREE she also undertook research to compare the soil bacterial profiles in regenerative versus conventional agricultural plots. In all, Indira is a diligent and active researcher, teacher, cum-administrator who has worn multiple hats at various times in her career and brings along varied expertise and experiences.