Dr. Rupesh Deshmukh

Dr. Deshmukh completed his first postdoc at Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, where he worked on the molecular mechanisms involved in the uptake of silicon in plants. He identified silicon-transporting aquaporins in several plant species through efficient exploration of omics resources. He completed another postdoc at Missouri University, USA, where he was involved in research focusing on translational genomics and development of genomic resources for crop plants. Subsequently, he returned to Université Laval as Visiting Professor. At present, his group is working on different challenging genome editing projects. He has received several highly competitive awards such as the Ramalingaswami Fellowship Award and NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award. He is recognized as a Fellow of the ISGPB and ARRW. Recently, his name was featured on a list of the world's top 2% of scientists published by Stanford University. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is an editorial board member for several highly reputed journals such as the Journal of Advanced Research, The Plant Genome, PLoS One, BMC Biotechnology, and Frontiers in Genome Editing.