Dr. Gitanjali Yadav is a Trustee of St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. She is also the first DBT-Cambridge Lectureship awardee, a joint program between Cambridge Old Schools and the NIPGR, Govt of India. She has a diverse educational background, with a Ph.D. in Microbial Immunology (from the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi India), a Master's degree in Biomedical Research and graduate degree with Honors in Botany, from the University of Delhi. She is a specialist in Genomics and Structural Biology with focus on food security and plant communication.
Dr. Yadav has received several awards in recognition of her work, including the Hamied Fellowship from the University of Cambridge (2019), Exceptional Talent Award from the Royal Society of London (2017), the INSA Medal from the Indian National Science Academy (2011), the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) by the DBT, and the Women's Excellence Award (WEA) from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India (2014).
She actively promotes science as a way of life to underprivileged students from rural India, especially girls. Over the past year, she has been a Mentor for Women in Science Program of the British Ecological Society, as well as an ambassador of Indian Women in Science, at the CNRS Indo-French Women in Science Program, the Asia-Pacific Network for Bioinformatics (InCoB), as well as the Middle Eastern South Asia (MESA) Conference for Promotion of Science.
Publications
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Chauhan S, Yadav G* & Babu S* (2022) Ecological Networks in Urban Forest Fragments Reveal Species Associations between Native and Invasive Plant Communities. Plants. 11(4):541.https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11040541 |
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Garai S, C Citu, Singla-Pareek SL, Sopory SK, Kaur C, Yadav G* (2021) Complex Networks of Prion-like proteins reveal crosstalk b/w Stress & Memory pathways in Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12, 1513, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.707286 |
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Mahtha SK, Purama RK and Yadav G* (2021). StAR-Related Lipid Transfer (START) domains across the rice Pangenome reveal how ontogeny recapitulated selection pressures during rice domestication. Frontiers in Genetics (12). |
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Kumar A and Yadav G* (2021) Shared ancestry of core-histone subunits and non-histone plant proteins containing the Histone Fold Motif (HFM) Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2021, 19 (2) https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219720021400011 |
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Gupta R, Prasad A, Babu S, Yadav G*. (2021) Impact of Coronavirus Outbreaks on Science and Society: Insights from Temporal Bibliometry of SARS and COVID-19. Entropy 2021, 23, 626. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23050626 |
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Sharma M, Muhammed Jamsheer K, Shukla BN, Sharma M, Awasthi P, Mahtha SK, Yadav G and Laxmi A (2021). Arabidopsis Target of Rapamycin Coordinates With Transcriptional and Epigenetic Machinery to Regulate Thermotolerance. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 (12). |
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Mishra P, Prasad A, Babu S and Yadav G* (2021). Decision support systems based on scientific evidence: bibliometric networks of invasive Lantana camara. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 87(1), pp.133-138. doi 10.1101/2020.08.10.24087 |
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Rowland-Chandler J, Salter E, Babu S, & Yadav G*. (2021). Quantifying the Invasive Secondary Metabolome. bioRxiv. |
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Verma P, Tandon R, Yadav G and Gaur V (2020). Structural aspects of DNA repair and recombination in crop improvement. Frontiers in Genetics,p.1103. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.574549 |
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Smita S, Katyar A, Dalal, Mahtha SK,..Yadav G, Mani P and Bansal KC (2019) Gene network modules associated with abiotic stress response in tolerant rice genotypes identified by transcriptome meta-analysis, Functional and Integrative Genomics (DOI s10142-019-00697-w) |
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Yadav G* Funding Challenges in Research (2018) Journey of a Young Investigator (JOYI) Series, Indiabioscience, March 2018 |
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Babu, S and Yadav G* (2018) Extinction Curves and Error Propagation in Mutualistic Ecological Networks: The Case of Frugivores in a Tropical Rainforest. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications. December 11-13, 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom. |
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Priya P, Yadav A, Jyoti C and Yadav G* (2018) TERZYME: A Tool for Quantification and Analysis of the plant Terpenome. Plant Methods (In Press) |
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Yadav A, Thakur JK and Yadav G* (2017) KIXBASE: A Comprehensive web resource for identification and exploration of KIX domains. Scientific Reports 7(1):14924. |
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Yadav G and Mohanty, D (2017) Databases developed in India for Biological Sciences. Journal of Proteins and Proteomics 8(3), 159-167 |
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Patra B, Kon Y, Yadav G, Sevold A,.. Hintze A, Galas D and Ray A* (2017) A genome wide dosage suppressor network reveals genetic robustness Nucleic Acids Research 45(1),255–270 |
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Priya P, Kumari S and Yadav G* (2016) Quantification of the plant terpenome: predicted versus actual emission potentials. Ind J Plant Phys DOI: 10.1007/s40502-016-0256-x |
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Yadav G* and Babu S (2016) Evidence for alternate stable states in collapsing ecological networks. doi: Biorxiv/2016/046045 |
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Amish K and Yadav G* (2016) Diversification of the Histone Fold Motif (HFM) in Plants: Evolution of New Functional Roles. Defence Life Science Journal (Vol1:1) DOI: 10.14429/dlsj.1.10061 |
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Babu S and Yadav G* (2016) Co-Authorship Networks Reveal Patterns of Scientific Collaboration and Research Impact. Defence Life Science Journal (Vol1:1) DOI: 10.14429/dlsj.1.10087 |
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Priya P, Bandhiwal N, Misra G, Mondal S and Yadav G* (2015) IGMAP: An Interactive Mapping and Clustering Platform for Plants. Molecular Plant. 8(5): 818–821. doi:10.1016/j.molp.2015.01.018 |
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Parween S, Nawaz K, Roy R, Pole AK, Venkata Suresh B, Misra G, Jain M, Yadav G, Parida SK, Tyagi AK, Bhatia S, Chattopadhyay D (2015) An advanced draft genome assembly of a desi type chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Scientific Reports Doi: 10.1038/srep12806. |
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Kumari S, Pundhir S, Priya P, Jeena G, Punetha A, Chawla K, Jafaree Z, Mondal S and Yadav G* (2014) EssOilDB: A Database of Essential Oils reflecting Terpene Composition and Variability in the Plant Kingdom. Database DOI: 10.1093/database/bau120 |
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Misra G, Priya P, Bandhiwal N, Bareja N, Jain M, Bhatia S, Chattopadhyay D, Tyagi AK and Yadav G* (2014) The Chickpea Genomic Web Resource: Visualization and Analysis of the Desi-type Cicer arietinum Nuclear Genome for Comparative Exploration of Legumes. BMC Plant Biology. 14(1): 315 |
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[Recommended by Faculty of 1000] Schrick K, Bruno M, Khosla A, Roque RA, Nguyen H, Snyder MP, Singh D and Yadav G (2014) Shared functions of plant and mammalian StAR-related lipid transfer (START) domains in modulating transcription factor activity. BMC Biology. 12:70 doi:10.1186/s12915-014-0070-8 ( View Recommendation Here) |
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Thakur JK, Yadav A and Yadav G* (2014) Molecular recognition by the KIX domain and its role in gene regulation. Nucl. Acids Res. 42 (4): 2112-2125 |
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Kumari S, Priya P, Misra G and Yadav G* (2013) Structural and biochemical perspectives in plant isoprenoid biosynthesis. Phytochemistry Reviews. 12: 255-291 |
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Jain M, Misra G, Patel RK, Priya P, Jhanwar S, Khan AW, Shah N, Singh VK, Garg R, Jeena G, Yadav M, Kant C, Sharma P, Yadav G, Bhatia S, Tyagi AK, Chattopadhyay D (2013) A draft genome sequence of the pulse crop chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Plant Journal. DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12173 |
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Kumari R, Yadav G, Sharma V & Kumar S (2013) Cytosine hypomethylation at CHG and CHH sites in the pleiotropic mutants of Mendelian inheritance in Catharanthus roseus. Journal of Genetics 92(3): 499-511 |
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Kumar S, Kumari R, Sharma V & Yadav G (2013) Common and Distinguishing Characteristics of Genes and Genomes and Their Evolution in the Genome Sequenced Legumes. Proc Indian Natl Sci Acad. 79 (2): 277-286 |
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Yadav G, Anand S and Mohanty D (2013) Prediction of inter domain interactions in modular polyketide synthases by docking and correlated mutation analysis. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 31(1): 17-29. (Spl Issue: Predictive biology using systems and integrative analysis and methods) |
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Yadav G* and Babu S (2012) NEXCADE: Perturbation Analysis for Complex Networks. PLoS ONE 7(8): e41827. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041827 |
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Kumari S, Shridhar S, Singh D, Farmer R, Hundal J, Priya P, Sharma P, Bhavishi K, Schrick K, and Yadav G*. (2012) The role of lectins and HD-ZIP transcription factors in Isoprenoid based plant stress responses Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 78 (4): 671-691 (Article in Cover Illustration) |
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Gaur R, Azam S, Jeena G, Khan AW, Chaudhary S, Jain M, Yadav G, Tyagi AK, Chattopadhyay D, Bhatia S (2012) High-throughput SNP discovery and genotyping for constructing a saturated linkage map of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). DNA Research pp:1-17 doi:10.1093/dnares/dss018 |
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Chaudhary S, Sharma V, Prasad M, Bhatia S, Tripathi BN, Yadav G, Kumar S (2011) Characterization and genetic linkage mapping of the horticulturally important mutation leafless inflorescence (lli) in periwinkle Catharanthus roseus. Sci. Horti. (in press) Doi: 10.1016/j.scienta.2011.02.025 |
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Garg R, Patel RK, Jhanwar S, Priya P, Bhattacharjee A, Yadav G, Bhatia S et al (2011) Gene discovery and tissue-specific transcriptome analysis in chickpea with massively parallel pyrosequencing and web resource development. Plant Physiol 156: 1661-1678. |
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Anand S, Prasad MV, Yadav G, Kumar N, Shehara J et al.(2010) SBSPKS: structure based sequence analysis of polyketide synthases. Nucl. Acids. Res. 2010 May 5. [Epub ahead of print] |
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Shridhar S, Chattopadhyay D and Yadav G* (2009) PLecDom: A program for identification and analysis of plant Lectin Domains. Nucl. Acids. Res. Jul 1;37: W452-8. Epub 2009 May 27. |
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Kumar S, Mishra RK, Chaudhary S, Pandey R and Yadav G (2009) Co-regulation of Biomass Partitioning by Leafblade Morphology Genes Afila, Multifoliate-pinna, Tendril-less and Unifoliata in Grain Pea Pisum sativum. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sc. Acad, 75 No. 1 pp 15-25. |
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Yadav G, Gokhale RS and Mohanty D (2009) Towards prediction of metabolic products of Polyketide Synthases: An In Silico analysis. PLoS. Comp. Biol. Apr; Vol 5(4): e1000351. |
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Yadav G*, Prasad RLA, Jha BK, Rai V, Bhakuni VK and Datta K (2008). Evidence for inhibitory interaction of hyaluronan binding protein 1 (HABP1/p32/gC1qR) with S. pneumoniae hyaluronidase. J. Biol. Chem 284(6): 3897-3905 (*corresponding authors) |
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Kaur H, Shukla RK, Yadav G, Chattopadhyay D and Majee M (2008) Two divergent genes encoding L-myo-inositol 1 -phosphate synthase1 (CaMIPS1) and 2 (CaMIPS2) are differentially expressed in chickpea. Plant, Cell and Environment 31: 1701-1716. |
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Chopra T, Banerjee S, Gupta S, Yadav G, Anand S, et al. (2008) Novel Intermolecular Iterative Mechanism for Biosynthesis of Mycoketide Catalyzed by a Bimodular Polyketide Synthase. PLoS Biology 6(7): e163 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060163. |
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Ansari MZ, Yadav G, Gokhale RS and Mohanty D (2004) NRPS-PKS A knowledge based resource for analysis of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and polyketide synthases. Nucl. Acids Res. 32: W401-W415. |
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Yadav G, Gokhale RS and Mohanty D (2003) Computational approach for prediction of domain organization and substrate specificity of modular polyketide synthases. J. Mol. Biol. 328: 335-63. |
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Yadav G, Gokhale RS and Mohanty D (2003) SEARCHPKS: A Program for detection and analysis of polyketide synthase domains. Nucl. Acids Res. 31: 3654-3658. |
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Saxena P, Yadav G, Mohanty D and Gokhale RS (2003) A new family of type III polyketide synthases in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 44780-90. |
Teaching and Supervisions
Teaching:
2024/2025:
- Introduction to R - Training Lead, Trainer
2023/2024:
- Introduction to R - Training Lead, Trainer
2022/2023:
- Introduction to R - Training Lead, Trainer
- Introduction to Unix and bash - Training Lead, Trainer
- SARS-CoV-2 Genomics
2021/2022:
- Introduction to R - Training Lead, Trainer
- Introduction to Unix and bash - Training Lead, Trainer
- Complex Network Analysis for Biologists - Trainer
2020/2021:
- Introduction to R - Training Lead, Trainer
- Complex Network Analysis for Biologists - Trainer
2019/2020:
- Introduction to R - Training Lead, Trainer
- Reproducible Research with R - Training Lead, Trainer
2017/2018:
- An Introduction to Solving Biological Problems with R - Trainer
