UNIVERCITY OF DELHI SOUTH CAMPUS

DEEPAK PENTAL

Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor

University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007

Phone:    011-27667011 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              011-27667011      end_of_the_skype_highlighting, 27667190

Fax:  011-27667049

Email:    vc@du.ac.in

Academic Qualification

Institution                  Degree                                     Year

Rutgers University       Ph.D.                                 1974-78

Punjab University        M.Sc. (Hons School)       1971-73

Punjab University        B.Sc. (Hons School)        1968-71

Employment

Organisation                               Duration                    Position

University of Delhi                    2005 - onwards        Vice Chancellor

University of Delhi

South Campus                          2000 - 2005                Director

Centre for Genetic

Manipulation of Crop Plants

(CGMCP), University of Delhi 1995 - onwards         Director

University of Delhi

South Campus                           1994 - 1996               Dean, Faculty of Int. and Applied Sciences (FIAS)

Department of Genetics

University of Delhi

South Campus                           1993 - onwards         Professor

Tata Energy Research

Institute (TERI), New Delhi      1985 - 1993                Fellow

Plant Genetic Manipulation

Group, University of Delhi       1978 - 1984                Post-doctoral and University Research Fellow

Other Information

• Elected member of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.
• Member Governing body of CSIR.
• Member editorial board of Journal of Biosciences and Current Science.
• Member of various Project Advisory Committees in DST and DBT from 1986 onwards.
• Member of RAC of CIMAP and IHBT.
• Awarded a Punjab University medal for first position in Diploma in Gandhian Philosophy.
• Awarded a Biotechnology Career Fellowship in 1986 by the Rockefeller Foundation to work at the Max-Planck Institute in Koln.
• Coordinated two major national network programmes:
• “Development of Transgenics in Four Major Crops – Cotton, Rice, Mungbean and Tomato for Resistance to Biotic Stresses” funded by Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
• “Functional Genomics in Plants: Development and Use of the Technologies for Gene Discovery and Expression Modulation” funded by The New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative (NMITLI).
• Edited a special issue of Current Science (Vol. 84, 2003) on Transgenic Crops. Besides editing the volume contributed three articles:
• Contributed an article “Transgenic Crops for Indian Agriculture: An Assessment of Their Relevance and Effective Use” in ‘Policy and Institutional Issues and Challenges in Indian Agriculture’ ed: Dr. Ramesh Chand, Oxfam, In Press.
• Sixty-one publications in peer-reviewed journals on genetic manipulation of plants.
• Current research work on breeding of mustard and cotton through the development of transgenics and marker-assisted breeding.