Dheer Singh

Endocrinology
National Dairy Research Institute
India

Biography

Dheer Singh received Ph.D degree from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) Deemed University at Karnal (Haryana) in India. After his doctoral degree he selected as Agricultural Research Scientist (ARS) and joined Animal Biochemistry Division at NDRI as scientist and subsequently promoted to Principal Scientist. Awarded BOYSCAST (Better opportunity for young scientist in chosen area of science and technology) fellowship from Department of science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India to pursue higher study abroad and worked in Department of Cell Biology and Developmental and Anatomy at School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, USA in the area of transcriptional regulation of eukaryotic genes. Life member of prominent professional national scientific societies namely, SBC, India, ISSRF, ISCB etc. Elected as national executive member of ISSRF in 2006 & 2008 and since is working as national executive member of ISSRF. Apart from several educational fellowships such as ICMR Junior research fellowship (JRF), NDRI JRF and SRF etc, awarded of 9th & 11Th AAAP/CAPI Outstanding Research Award of of Asian Australian Animal Production Society and prestigious Labhsetwar award -2013 of Indian Society for Study in Reproduction & Fertility. Handled more than 15 research project funded by various funding agencies including an Indo-German joint collaborative project (DST-DFG & DST-DAAD) on epigenetic regulation of genes. Major focus of research of his lab is 1) Identification and analysis of the regulation of s Dheer Singh received Ph.D degree from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) Deemed University at Karnal (Haryana) in India. After his doctoral degree he selected as Agricultural Research Scientist (ARS) and joined Animal Biochemistry Division at NDRI as scientist and subsequently promoted to Principal Scientist. Awarded BOYSCAST (Better opportunity for young scientist in chosen area of science and technology) fellowship from Department of science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India to pursue higher study abroad and worked in Department of Cell Biology and Developmental and Anatomy at School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, USA in the area of transcriptional regulation of eukaryotic genes. Life member of prominent professional national scientific societies namely, SBC, India, ISSRF, ISCB etc. Elected as national executive member of ISSRF in 2006 & 2008 and since is working as national executive member of ISSRF. Apart from several educational fellowships such as ICMR Junior research fellowship (JRF), NDRI JRF and SRF etc, awarded of 9th & 11Th AAAP/CAPI Outstanding Research Award of of Asian Australian Animal Production Society and prestigious Labhsetwar award -2013 of Indian Society for Study in Reproduction & Fertility. Handled more than 15 research project funded by various funding agencies including an Indo-German joint collaborative project (DST-DFG & DST-DAAD) on epigenetic regulation of genes. Major focus of research of his lab is 1) Identification and analysis of the regulation of s

Research Intrest

1) Identification and analysis of the regulation of selected traitaffecting (e.g. fertility) genes. 2) Application of RNA interference tools for livestock functional genomics, 3) Epigenetic regulation of gene expression.