Employee Profile

Scientific staff profile and professional achievements

Scientist
Basic Information
  • Name: Mahender Singh
  • Designation : Principal Scientist
  • Department : GCR
Educational Qualification
  • B.Sc (Botany Zoology, Chemistry; Kurukshetra University, Haryana)
  • M.Sc (Biotechnology; Kurukshetra University, Haryana)
  • Ph.D (Molecular Phylogeny of selected species of genus Glyptothorax in India; Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttrakhand)
Professional Experience:
  • Scientist: 05 Nov. 1999 to 04 Nov. 2010
  • Senior Scientist: 05 Nov. 2010 to 04 Nov. 2016
  • Principal Scientist: 05 Nov. 2016 to present
Research Focus
  • DNA barcoding and e-DNA-metabarcoding.
  • Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary genetics.
  • Integrative taxonomy

Current Research Projects:

  • Development of molecular system for identification of fishes. April 2023 - March 2026
  • Genome editing of Labeo rohita and Trichogaster chuna for enhancement of economic traits. April 2023 - March 2026
  • Nanofibre and Biocomposite development from fish waste resource for circular economy. April 2023 - March 2026
Publications
  • Mahender Singh*, Samuel Lalronunga & Lalramliana (2022) Integrative taxonomy peeps a new torrent catfish species of genus Amblyceps (Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae), in the Kaladan River of Mizoram, India. Molecular Biology Reports 49(6), 4565-4572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-022-07302-7
  • Mahender Singh*, Teena Jayakumar T.K., T.T. Ajith Kumar, Murali S., Akhilesh Mishra, Achal Singh and Kuldeep K. Lal (2022) Integrative taxonomy based discovery of Dussumieria modakandai sp. nov. from India. Journal of Fish Biology. 100(1)268-278. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14943
  • Rashid, I., Nagpure, N.S., Srivastava, P., Kumar, R., Pathak, A.K., Singh, M., & Kushwaha, B. (2017). HRGFish: A database of hypoxia responsive genes in fishes. Scientific Reports, 7, 42346.
  • Nagpure N.S., Rashid, I., Pati, R., Pathak, A.K., Singh*, M., Singh, S.P., Sarkar, U.K. (2013) FishMicrosat: a microsatellite database of commercially important fishes and shellfishes of the Indian subcontinent. BMC Genomics 14(1):630 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-630.
  • Singh*, M., Lakra, W.S., Bahuguna S.N. and Kartavtsev Y. (2012). Cytochrome b gene sequence divergence of seven sisorid species of catfish genus Glyptothorax (siluriformes, sisoridae) from India. Molecular Biology Reports 39(4):4275-82.
*Corresponding author

For complete list of publications, link to Google scholar profile

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X6Ccoa8AAAAJ&hl=en
Awards & Fellowships
  • Received ISBD Travel Grant Award for International Symposium on Biodiversity Sciences, 2010, Nagoya Japan.
  • Received Travel Grant Award for International Symposium on “Modern Achievements in Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics” (MAPEEG-2013) during September 2-6, 2013, Organized by A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok, Russia.
  • Received Fellowship (2015) of Bioved Research Institute of Agriculture & Technology, Allahabad.