About Us

Name: Dr. Priyanka Sharma
Designation: Scientist-B
Personal Details:

Email : scib4-gbrc@gujarat.gov.in; mailsharma.p@gmail.com

Research Interest:
Molecular Therapeutics, Novel drug discovery, Nutrigenomics, study of Pathophysiology of Infectious Diseases and Cancers for their timely diagnosis and treatment.

Education:

• Ph.D. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi INDIA (2015)
• MSc. H.N.B. Garhwal University, Uttarakhand, INDIA (2005)
• BSc. University of Delhi, Delhi INDIA (2003)

Research Experience:

• Scientist-B at Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre, Gujarat INDIA (2016 – present)
• Research Associate at ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (ICAR-NBAGR), Karnal, India (2015 – 2016)
• Doctoral Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (2007-2012)
• Visiting Faculty at Deen Bandhu C.R. College of Engg. (Now DCRUST, Murthal), Haryana, India (2005 -2006)

Publications:

• Lata KS, Kumar S, Vaghasia V, Sharma P, Bhairappanavar SB, Soni S & Das J (2018). Exploring Leptospiral proteomes to identify potential candidates for vaccine design against Leptopsirosis using an immunoinformatics approach. Sci Rep. 8(1):6935.
• Beriwal S, Padhiyar N, Bhatt D, Pandit P, Ansari A, Lata KS, Saiyed Z, Vaghasia V, Sharma P, Bhairappanavar S. B., Soni S. & Das J (2018). LeptoDB: An integrated database of Genomics and Proteomics resource of Leptospira. Database (Oxford). 2018: bay057.
• Kumar D, Kumar S, Ayachit G, Bhairappanavar SB, Ansari A, Sharma P, Soni S, and Das J (2017). Cross-kingdom regulation of putative miRNAs derived from happy tree in cancer pathway: a systems biology approach. Int J Mol Sci 18(6): 1191.
• Ahlawat S, De S, Sharma P, Sharma R, Arora R, Kataria RS & Singh RK (2017). Evolutionary dynamics of meiotic recombination hotspots regulator PRDM9 in bovids. Mol Genet Genomics 292(1):117-131.
• Sharma R, Sharma P, Ahlawat S, Singh TR, Vijh RK, Vij PK & Tantia MS (2017). Genetic variability and phylogenetic relationship establishes distinctness of Kaunayen chicken of Manipur. Ind J Anim Sci. 87:871 – 878.
• Ahlawat S, Sharma P, Sharma R, Arora R and De S (2016). Zinc finger domain of the PRDM9 gene on chromosome 1 exhibits high diversity in ruminants but its paralog PRDM7 contains multiple disruptive mutations. PLoS One 11(5): e0156159.
• Ahlawat S, Sharma P, Sharma R, Arora R, Verma NK, Brahma B, Mishra P & De S (2016) Evidence of positive selection and concerted evolution in the rapidly evolving PRDM9 zinc finger domain in goats and sheep. ,Anim Genet 47(6):740-751. (PMID: 27621101 DOI: 10.1111/age.12487).
• Ahlawat S, Sharma R, Arora R, Jaiswal L, Chopra M, Sharma P & S De (2016). Conserved architecture of RAD51 recombinase in ruminants revealed through molecular cloning and characterization. Ind J Anim Sci 86(12):1420–1426.
• Sharma P, Bansal A & Sharma PC (2015). RNA-seq-based transcriptome profiling reveals differential gene expression in the lungs of Sprague-Dawley rats during early-phase acute hypobaric hypoxia. Mol Genet Genomics 290: 2225-2240.
• Sharma P, Singh DP, Kumar S, Bansal A, Aggarwal KK & Sharma PC (2015). Acute hypobaric hypoxia induced early phase biochemical and histological changes in susceptible and tolerant rat lung tissues. Curr Tren Biotechnol Pharm 9: 5-15.
• Sharma P, Kumar S, Bansal A, Nimker C, Aggarwal KK and Sharma PC (2014). Selection of reference genes for qRT-PCR normalization to study Hif1α and Hif2α expression in hypobaric hypoxia susceptible and tolerant rats lung. Curr Tren Biotechnol Pharm 8: 336-349.
• Kumar S, Sharma P, Bansal A, Sharma PC and Aggarwal KK (2014). Hypobaric hypoxia mediated protein expression in susceptible and tolerant Sprague Dawley rats. Ind J Med Res 140: 756-765.