Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics Scientific Staff

Awards and Honours:-

• Jawaharlal Nehru National Award for Social Sciences
• Young Scientist Award of ISAS

Awards and Honours:

• Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), New Delhi since January 2016.
• Fellow, Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding, New Delhi.
• Fellow, Society for Applied Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu.
• P.V. Sukhatme Gold Medal – Awarded by the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, New Delhi
• Received 1st best poster award in International Conference on Statistics & Big Data Bioinformatics in Agricultural Research organized by ISAS at ICRISAT, Hyderabad during 21-23 November, 2016 for the research paper entitled “Genome Wide Mining of Microsatellites in Sesame”.
• Received best poster award in International Conference on InterDrought-V organized by ICRISAT, Hyderabad at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad during 21-25,February, 2017 for the research paper “Comparison of genomic selection models for drought tolerance in sub-tropical maize”.
• DBT Overseas Associateship – LongTerm (2004-2005) award was given by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India to conduct Advanced Training / Research at Overseas research laboratory in the area of Bioinformatics.
• Visiting Scientist during the period 05April 2006 to 04 April 2007 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.
• Faculty Member and Research guide (for Masters and Doctoral Degree students), Post Graduate School, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
• Convener, Bioinformatics Course committee to design courses on Bioinformatics at the Institute.
• Co-Convener for invited paper session on sub-theme entitled “Genomic Selection and Genome wide Association Mapping” under the International Conference on “Statistics and Big Data Bioinformatics in Agricultural Research” organized at ICRISAT,Hyderabad during 21-23 November 2016.
• Chaired a session track on Genomics at the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology organized at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India during 04-06 March 2016.
• Acted as a Co-Convener to a session on Advances in Statistical Genetics on 19th December, 2012 in the International Conference on Statistics and Informatics in Agricultural Research, organized by Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics (ISAS), New Delhi during 18th – 20th December, 2012.
• Invited as speaker for many talks and delivered lectures outside and within the Institute.
• Received appreciation letter from DDG (Engineering) for the contributions made as a team member in the Data warehouse project “Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System”.
• Received appreciation letter from Dean, PG School, IARI for contributions made in the book “Advances in Post-Graduate Research for improving Agricultural Growth and Prosperity” (2008).
• Dual Faculty Member and Research Guide in the disciplines of Agricultural Statistics and Bioinformatics at PG School, IARI, New Delhi.

Awards and Honours:

• Fellow of Society of Plant Research, 2012
• Eminent Bioinformatician Award, Society of Applied Biotechnology, 2011
• Fellow of Society of Applied Biotechnology, 2011
• CSIR Research Associateship, 2000-2002
• CSIR Senior Research Fellowship, 1992-1995
• CSIR Junior Research Fellowship, 1990-1992
• GATE, 1990; percentile: 97.24

Awards and Honours:

• Fellowship Award, Society for Scientific Development in Agriculture and Technology, Meerut (UP) India in 2013.
• Scientist of the Year Award, Society for Recent Development in Agriculture on the occasion of National Symposium on “Scenario of Agriculture in Changing Climatic Conditions” held on Oct 18, 2008 at SVBP University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut.
• South Asia Manthan Award, Project “Expert System on Wheat Crop Management” by Digital Empowerment Foundation in 2009.
• Praise-Reward for Excellent Performance under ICAR Institute Category for the stall of “Computer Application, IASRI” in Krishi Vigyan Mela at IARI New Delhi during 4-6 March 2010.
• Appreciation letter from DDG (Agricultutral Engineering) for the contributions made as a team member in the Data warehouse project “Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System” in 2005.
• First prize in the poster pratiyogita for Paper entitled “Expert system for selection of wheat varieties in Hindi” at IASRI, New Delhi on 12th Sept 2009.
• Membership certificate of honours for valued reviewer from International Jounral of Bioinformatics Research on 15th June 2017.
• Session Chair, Software Engineering and Testing of 5th International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and. Optimization (ICRITO 2016). (Trends and Future directions) during 7-9th Sep. 2016 at AIIT, Amity University, Noida.
• Session Chair, IT Applications of 4th International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and. Optimization (ICRITO 2015). (Trends and Future directions) during 2-4th Sep. 2015 at AIIT, Amity University, Noida.
• Dual Faculty Member in the disciplines of Computer Applications and Bioinformatics at PG School, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi.

Invited speaker for many talks and delivered lectures outside and within the Institute.

Awards and Honours:

• अनु शर्मा और आरती सिंह(2017). सिमेंटिक्स और सॉफ्टवेयर एजेंट आधारित वेब पेर्सनलाईज़ेड सूचना बहाली. सर्वश्रेठ शोध पत्र प्रस्तुति भारतीय भाषाओ में प्रथम विज्ञान संगोष्ठी, २२ अगस्त , २०१७, राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान,  कुरुक्षेत्र |
• अनु शर्मा, ज्योतिका भाटी, एस. बी. लाल, के. के. चतुर्वेदी, एम. एस. फारुकी और अनिल राय(२०१७). संगणनात्मक विधियों के द्वारा अरहर में माइक्रोआरएनए की पहचान को भा. कृ. अनु. प. – भारतीय कृषि सांख्यिकी अनुसन्धान संस्थान, नई दिल्ली द्वारा 11 सितम्बर, २०१७ को  आयोजित डिजिटल शोध पत्र प्रस्तुति प्रतियोगिता में तृतीय पुरस्कार से सम्मानित किया गया
• Session Co-Chair: National Conference on Future Innovations in Computing Technology and Machine Learning (FICTML-17) held at Department of Computer Science and Applications, Maharishi Dyanand University, Rohtak on 21 November, 2017

Awards and Honours:

• Qualified National Eligibility Test(NET) in Agricultural Statistics in the year of 1997-98 conducted by Agricultural Scientist Recruitment Board, ICAR, New Delhi.
• Qualified National Eligibility Test(NET) in Computer Application in Agriculture in the year of 1998-99 conducted by Agricultural Scientist Recruitment Board, ICAR, New Delhi.

Awards and Honours:

• Received DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST AWARD of the Society for Bioinformatics and Biological Sciences, Allahabad in recognition of the outstanding scientific contribution in the field of Bioinformatics.
• Received 3rd Prize for the research paper entitled In silico gene prediction and their promoter analysis for the genes related to biotic stress in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) authored by G. Tandon, S. Jaiswal, M. A. Iquebal, S. Singh, A. Rai, D. Kumar at National Conference on Bioinformatics Panorama in Agriculture and Health (NCBPAH 2015) at SHIATS, Allahabad during October 5-6, 2015.
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Tandon, G., Jaiswal, S., Iquebal, M.A., Singh, S., Kumar, S., Rai, A. and Kumar, D. (2015). In silico study of interaction of EDS1 and PAD4 proteins in tomato using molecular dynamics approach in Proteomics Session in International Symposium on New Perspectives in Modern Biotechnology organized by Society for Applied Biotechnology, at Puducherry during March, 23-25, 2015.
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Kaur, S., Iquebal, M.A., Jaiswal, S., Singh, S., Rai, A., Kumar, D. (2015). In silico prediction and functional characterization of genes related to abiotic and biotic stresses in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) in Genomics Session in International Symposium on New Perspectives in Modern Biotechnology organized by Society for Applied Biotechnology, at Puducherry during March 23 – 25, 2015.
• BEST POSTER AWARD: Awarded FIRST in poster presentation on topic entitled SBMDb: First whole genome based DNA microsatellite database of sugarbeet for bioenergy and industrial application by M.A. Iquebal, Sarika, U.B. Angadi, Vasu Arora, Gaurav Sablok, Sunil Kumar, Anil Rai and Dinesh Kumar in 2nd National Conference on Converging Technologies Beyond 2020 (2CTB-2020) held during November 28-29, 2014 at UIET, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana.
• Awarded 2nd Prize for Hindi Research Poster entitled “कृत्रिम न्यूरल नेटवर्क (Artificial Neural Network) कार्यप्रणाली आधारित डी.एन.ए. माइक्रोसैटेलाइट मार्कर (DNA Microsatellite Marker) द्वारा नस्ल पहचान विधि” by Sarika, Iquebal, M.A., Rai, Anil and Kumar, Dinesh presented during Hindi Pakhwada (September 01 to 16, 2013) at IASRI, New Delhi
• First/ Best Research Paper Award in National Conference: The research paper “World’s first whole genome based microsatellite DNA marker database of Tomato: TomSatDB” authored by M. A. Iquebal, Sarika, Vasu Arora, Nidhi Verma, Anil Rai and Dinesh Kumar was awarded as First/Best paper in the National Conference on “NextGen Biotechnology: Amalgamating Science & Technology”, Department of Biotechnology Engineering, UIET, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana during November 23-34, 2012
• Faculty (Bioinformatics), Post Graduate School, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012
• Member of Seminar Association
• Member Secretary, Board of Studies (Bioinformatics)

Awards and Honours

• INDIVIDUAL AWARD: Received YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD of the Society for Bioinformatics and Biological Sciences, Allahabad in recognition of his outstanding scientific contribution in the field of Bioinformatics.
• TEAM AWARD: Received 3rd Prize for the research paper entitled In silico gene prediction and their promoter analysis for the genes related to biotic stress in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)authored by G. Tandon, S. Jaiswal, M. A. Iquebal, S. Singh, A. Rai, D. Kumar at National Conference on Bioinformatics Panorama in Agriculture and Health (NCBPAH 2015) at SHIATS, Allahabad during October 5-6, 2015.
• BEST POSTER AWARD: Awarded FIRST in poster presentation on topic entitled SBMDb: First whole genome based DNA microsatellite database of sugarbeet for bioenergy and industrial applicationby M.A. Iquebal, Sarika, U.B. Angadi, Vasu Arora, Gaurav Sablok, Sunil Kumar, Anil Rai and Dinesh Kumar in 2nd National Conference on Converging Technologies Beyond 2020 (2CTB-2020) held during November 28-29, 2014 at UIET, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana.
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Tandon, G., Jaiswal, S., Iquebal, M.A., Singh, S., Kumar, S., Rai, A. and Kumar, D. (2015). In silico study of interaction of EDS1 and PAD4 proteins in tomato using molecular dynamics approach.Best paper award in Proteomics Session in International Symposium on New Perspectives in Modern Biotechnology organized by Society for Applied Biotechnology,at Puducherry during March, 23-25, 2015.
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Kaur, S., Iquebal, M.A., Jaiswal, S., Singh, S., Rai, A., Kumar, D. (2015). In silico prediction and functional characterization of genes related to abiotic and biotic stresses in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) Best Paper Award in Genomics Session in International Symposium on New Perspectives in Modern Biotechnology organized by Society for Applied Biotechnology, at Puducherry during March 23 – 25, 2015.
• Awarded 2nd Prize for Hindi Research Poster entitled “कृत्रिम न्यूरल नेटवर्क (Artificial Neural Network) कार्यप्रणाली आधारित डी.एन.ए. माइक्रोसैटेलाइट मार्कर (DNA Microsatellite Marker) द्वारा नस्ल पहचान विधि” by Sarika, Iquebal, M.A., Rai, Anil and Kumar, Dinesh presented during Hindi Pakhwada (September 01 to 16, 2013) at IASRI, New Delhi
• First/ Best Research Paper Awardin National Conference: The research paper “World’s first whole genome based microsatellite DNA marker database of Tomato: TomSatDB” authored by  A. Iquebal, Sarika, Vasu Arora, Nidhi Verma, Anil Rai and Dinesh Kumar was awarded as First/Best paper in the National Conference on “NextGen Biotechnology: Amalgamating Science & Technology”, Department of Biotechnology Engineering, UIET, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana during November 23-34, 2012
• Faculty (Agricultural Statistics), Post Graduate School, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012
• Faculty Member, Bioinformatics (Dual Faculty), PG School, IARI, New Delhi
• Subject Editor, Journal of Food Legumes
• Received Nehru Memorial Gold Medal for being the best student in M. Sc. (Agricultural Statistics) during the period 2002-04
• Received  V. R. Murthy award for being the best student in M. Sc. (Agricultural Statistics) during the period 2002-04