Dr. Senthil-Kumar Muthappa
FELLOW, ELECTED 2020

Born in Elumathur-Erode, District Erode, Tamil Nadu on 15 October 1976. Educated at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore, B.Sc. 1998; University of Agricultural Sciences Bengaluru, M.Sc. 2001 and, Ph.D. 2007.

Staff Scientist, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 2013 to date.

Post-doctoral Fellow at The Noble Research Institute Ardmore Oklahoma, USA 2007-13.

Awards/Honours: Wood-Whelan Research Fellowship from International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2004; Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship from Department of Biotechnology New Delhi, 2013; Ramanujan Fellowship from SERB-Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 2013; Har Gobind Khorana-Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award from Department of Biotechnology New Delhi, 2015.

Research Areas: Plant-pathogen interaction, non-host disease resistance, combined interaction of biotic & abiotic stresses in plants

Address: Staff Scientist, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, P.O. Box No. 10531, New Delhi 110067; H-IV-s-204, NIPGR, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067; [Tel: Off. (011) 26735229; Res. (011) 26735226; Cell: 8527289125; Fax: (011) 26741658; Email: skmuthappa@nipgr.ac.in]