Employee Profile

Scientific staff profile and professional achievements

Scientist
Basic Information
  • Name: Rajeev K. Singh
  • Designation : Principal Scientist Head
  • Department : GEEC
Educational Qualification
  • B.Sc (Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, Ayodhya)
  • M.Sc. (Biochemistry, Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, Ayodhya)
  • M.Tech. (Biotechnology, University of Lucknow)
Professional Experience:
  • Scientist: October 29, 1999 to October 28, 2005
  • Scientist (Senior Scale): October 29, 2005 to October 28, 2010
  • Senior Scientist: October 29, 2010 to October 28, 2016
  • Principal Scientist: October 29,2016 to November 09, 2023
  • Head: November 10, 2023 to till date
Research Focus
  • Conservation Genetics and Genomics

Current Research Projects:

  • Quantifying Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Godavari River Basin Landscape (Principal Investigator)
  • ICAR-Consortium Research Platform on Genomics (Principal Investigator)
  • Development of novel microsatellite markers for genetic and adaptive divergence in natural populations of selected fish species (Principal Investigator)
Publications
  • Singh, Rajeev K., Kumar, R., Bhordia, A., Kantharajan G., R. Chandran, TT Ajithkumar, V Mohindra, KK Lal (2023). Development of genome-wide novel microsatellite markers and genetic variability analysis of Asian seabass, Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790). Aquaculture International. https://doi.org/10.1007 /s10499-023-01116-5
  • Rejani Chandran, Rajeev K Singh, A. Singh, Kantharajan G., AjithKumar TT, KK Lal, V. Mohindra (2023) Evaluating the influence of environmental variables on the length-weight relationship and prediction modelling in flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758. PeerJ 11, e14884
  • Mohindra, V., Singh, Akanksha, Patangia, Ruchi; Tripathi, Ratnesh; Rajeev Singh,; Sah, Rama; Lal, Kuldeep, 2012. Characterization of 27 novel gene-associated SSR markers in Indian catfish, Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758) and their application in genetic diversity analysis. Molecular Ecology Resources 12 (6), 1196-1197
  • Dutta Nimisha, Rajeev K. Singh, Abhinav Pathak, Vindhya Mohindra, Sangeeta Mandal, Gurjeet Kaur and Kuldeep K. Lal, 2020. Mitochondrial DNA markers reveal genetic connectivity among populations of Osteoglossiform fish Chitala chitala. Molecular Biology Reports 47(11):8579-8592
  • Singh, R. K., Lal, K. K., Mohindra, V., Punia, P., Sah, R. S., Kumar, R., Gupta, A., Das, R., Lakra, W. S., & Ayyappan, S. (2012). Genetic diversity of Indian Major Carp, Labeo calbasu (Hamilton, 1822) populations inferred from microsatellite loci. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 44, 307–316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2012.02.002
*Corresponding author

For complete list of publications, link to Google scholar profile

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CPD-&pli=1&user=CPD-TiQAAAAJ
Awards & Fellowships
  • Fellow of Academy of Environmental Biology (FAEB Honour) (2018)
  • Zoological Society of India awarded by Dr B.S. Chauhan Medal 2018.
  • Best Scientist of the Institute awarded by ICAR-NBFGR 2018