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Dr. Rajnish Prakash Singh

Assistant Professor (Senior Grade)

rajnishprakash.singh@jiit.ac.in

Biography

Dr. Rajnish Prakash Singh joined the Department of Biotechnology, JIIT, Noida in July 2023. Prior to his appointment here, he was working as DBT-Ramalinga swami Faculty Fellow at BIT Mesra, Since July 2021. He did M.Sc. Biochemistry from Lucknow University and MTech Biotechnology from VIT University, Vellore. He completed his PhD from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus, Rajasthan and after completing one year of post-doc from IIT-Bombay, he went to Israel for his post-doc work, where he worked at Tel-Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Rajnish has more than 60 international publications, one US patent, and achieved various awards in national and international conferences. He received the prestigious Ramalinga swami award from Department of Biotechnology, Govt. Of India in 2021.

Research Highlights

His research experiences have spanned the fields of molecular microbiology, probiotics engineering, plant-microbe interactions and bacterial pathogenesis. This multi-disciplinary training has fostered an ability to think outside the box in developing new approaches to understand mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis. Presently, he is working on the bacterial secretion system, especially the Type VI secretion system (T6SS) in Enterobacteriaceae. He is presently employing the genomics, proteomics and transcriptomics tools to explore the role in T6SS in various environmental strains. Additionally, he is also working on the safety aspects of probiotic bacteria belonging to Bacillus spp. And their genome engineering for further human health purposes

Areas Of Interest

Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Microbial Technology

Publications

K. Kumari, A. Sinha, P. K. Sharma, R. P. Singh*, In-depth genome and comparative genome analysis of metal-resistant bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa S-8. Frontier in Cellular and Infectious Microbiology Feb. 2025, doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1511507.
R. P. Singh, A. Sinha, S. Deb. And K. Kumari, (2024) First report on in-depth genome and comparative genome analysis of a metal-resistant bacterium Acinetobacter pittii S-30, isolated from environmental sample. Frontier in Microbiology April 2024, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1351161
K. Kumari, P. K. Sharma, R. P. Singh*, The transcriptome response of Enterobacter sp. S-33 is modulated by low pH-stress. Genes and Genomics Vol. 46, pp. 671–687 April 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13258-024-01513-x
K Kumari, J. Dey, S. R. Mahapatra, Y, Ma, P. K. Sharma, N. Mishra, R. P. Singh*, Protein profiling and immunoinformatic analysis of the secretome of a metal-resistant environmental isolate Pseudomonas aeruginosa S-8. Folia Microbiologica Vol. 69, no. 1095-1122, March 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12223-024-01152-5.
A. Shadan, A. Pathak, Y. Ma, R. Pathania, R. P. Singh*, Deciphering the virulence factors, regulation, and immune response to Acinetobacter baumannii infection. Frontier in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Feb. 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1053968.