Technical

• Providing services in DNA fingerprinting (cereal and millets) to public and private sector organizations.
• Providing services in Institutional sequencing facility (sanger sequencing)
• University Gold Medalist.
• GATE qualified.

Won prizes in the following competitions organised by ICAR-NBPGR:

• Essay writing competition on the occasion of Gandhi jayanti on 1^st October, 2020.
• Slogan writing competition during Vigilance week from 27^th October to 1^st November, 2020.

Publications: 

1. Research Paper: 02

• Kesiraju K, Mishra P, Bajpai A, Sharma M, Rao U, Sreevathsa R. Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated in planta transformation strategy for development of transgenics in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) with GFP as a visual marker. Physiol Mol Biol Plants. 2020 Nov; 26(11):2319-2327. doi: 10.1007/s12298-020-00887-y.

• Kumari, R., Wankhede, D. P., Bajpai, A., Maurya, A., Prasad, K., Gautam, D.,..... & Gaikwad, A. B. (2019). Genome wide identification and characterization of microsatellite markers in black pepper (Piper nigrum): A valuable resource for boosting genomics applications. PloS one, 14(12), e0226002.

2. Abstract/Poster: 01

Kumari, R., Wankhede, D. P., Prasad, K. Maurya, A., Gautam, D., Bajpai, A., .,..... & Gaikwad, A. B. (2019). Identification and Characterization of Genome Wide SSR Markers in Black Pepper (Piper nigrum). International Conference on Plant Genetics & Genomics, SelectBio.

3. Write-up: 01

“Role of Genomics in PGR management” by Ambika B. Gaikwad and Akansha Bajpai in NAHEP CAAST Training organized from September 30^th - October 11^th, 2019 at NBPGR, NEW DELHI.