PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

• CSIR-JRF (Junior Research Fellow) at Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
• CSIR-SRF (Senior Research Fellow) at Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
• Assistant Professor (Botany), Department of Botany, School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwada, Punjab.

CURRENT APPOINTMENT:

• Assistant Professor (Botany), Department of Botany, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (A deemed to be University), Agra, Uttar Pradesh

OTHER QUALIFICATION / AWARDS:

1. Qualified CSIR- NET-JRF (December 2010).
2. Participated as Resource person in National Workshop on Basic Techniques in Biotechnology, LPU, Phagwara, Jalandhar.
3. GATE qualified
4. Won second best oral presentation award at international conference on Microalgal and cyanobacterial biotechnology at Bharatidashan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
5. Life member of “The Indian Science Congress Association” since 2016.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE/INTERESTS

• Cyanobacterial culture, biochemical analyses of cell growth.
• Molecular analyses of cyanobacteria including PCR, genomic DNA isolation from cyanobacteria, and tissue culture technology.
• Genomic and proteomic study
• Fluorescent staining, RT-PCR, genomics, proteomics and gene cloning.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

• Tiwari Anupam, Singh Priyanka, Asthana R.K., Role of calcium in the mitigation of heat stress in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120. Journal of Plant Physiology 199 (2016) 67–75 doi:10.1016/j.jplph (IF: 3.121)
• Tiwari Anupam, Singh P, Khadim SKR, Singh AK, Singh U, Singh P, Asthana RK. Role of Ca as protectant under heat stress by regulation of photosynthesis and membrane saturation in Anabaena PCC 7120. Protoplasma (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709- 018-1328-8 (IF: 3.3)
• SR Khadim, P Singh, AK Singh, A Tiwari, A Mohanta, RK Asthana. Mass cultivation of Dunaliella salina in a flat plate photobioreactor and its effective harvesting. Bioresource technology 270, 20-29 (IF- 5.8).
• P Singh, R Khadim, AK Singh, U Singh, P Maurya, A Tiwari, RK Asthana. Biochemical and physiological characterization of a halotolerant Dunaliella salina isolated from hypersaline Sambhar Lake, India. Journal of phycology 55(1):60-73. doi: 10.1111/jpy.12777. (IF: 2.9)
• Singh Priyanka, Tiwari Anupam, Singh S.P., Asthana R.K., Desiccation induced changes in osmolytes production and the antioxidativedefence in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants (2013) 19(1):61-68. doi: 10.1007/s12298-012- 0145-3 (IF 2.8).
• Singh Priyanka, Tiwari Anupam, Singh S.P., Asthana R.K.,Proline biosynthesizing enzymes (glutamate 5-kinase and pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase) from a model cyanobacterium for desiccation tolerance. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 2013 Oct; 19(4): 521–528. 10.1007/s12298-013-0186-2 (IF: 2.8).
• Singh AK, Tiwari R, Kumar V, Singh P, Khadim SR, Tiwari A, Srivastava V, Hasan SH, Asthana RK. Photo-induced biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles from aqueous extract of Dunaliella salina and their anticancer potential. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology (2016) 166: 202-211. (IF- 6.25)
• Pandey Neha, Tiwari Anupam (2018). Recent advances in epigenetic research in plants. In: Innovations in Life Science Research. Eds: Sinha RP, Pandey S, Ghoshal N), Nova Publishers, USA.

 SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/TRAINING

•  Oral presentation on the topic, 'Role of calcium in maintaining photosynthesis in Anabaena PCC 7120" at International conference on microalgal and cyanobacterial biotechnology at Bharathidashan University, Tiruchirappalli (29-31 august, 2016).
• Oral presentation on the topic " The Effect of heat stress on apoptosis, photosynthesis and selected gene expression in Anabaena PCC 7120: ameliorative effect of calcium." at National conference on Basic and applied researches in plant and microbes, Punjabi University, Patiala (Nov 3-5, 2016).
• Oral presentation on the topic, "Role of calcium in management of heat stress in cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120" at Mini symposium on interdisciplinary research in life sciences, current scenario and future direction (12-13 Nov, 2016). at ISLS, BHU, Varanasi.
• One week workshop on Understanding statistics by MS-Excel and SPSS at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
• Poster Presentation on Isolation, identification and mass cultivation of Dunaliella salina from Sambhar Lake and its potential as Biofuel, antimicrobial and anticancer agents at Four Days (7th -10th December 2015) During an International Seminar (AMI-2015)
• Poster Presentation on Role of Calcium in heat stress induced antioxidative defense and upregulation of HSPsat Four Days (7th -10th December 2015) International Seminar (AMI2015)
• Poster Presentation on Role of calcium in modulating groESLoperon in Anabaena PCC 7120 during heat stressat 2 Days (19th -20th February 2015) National Seminar ETCPSR2015
• Poster Presentation on Role of calcium in modulating heat stress in a cyanobacteriumAnabaena PCC 7120at National, Symposium on Biotechnology and Stress Biology of Algae &Cyanobateria, 2014