Welcome to Amit SINGH
On September 1st, Amit Singh has joined the lab of Wen-Hui Shen as a postdoctoral researcher. He will study the impact of change in histone and chromatin remodelling on cell differentiation, meiotic Cross-Over (CO), and gametogenesis in Arabidopsis. Let him introduce himself.
I accomplished my doctoral degree on “Effect of parental and grandparental reproductive age on the somatic mutation rates in Arabidopsis” under the supervision of Dr. R. Baskar at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India. During my Ph.D. study, I found that rates of somatic mutations such as frameshift mutation and transposition increases in the progeny of older parents and are more frequent in the progeny of older females compared to older males. After completing my Ph.D., I moved for post-doctoral research in the lab of Prof. Daniel A. Chamovitz, Tel Aviv University/Ben-Gurion University, Israel and studied the role of COP9 signalosome in environmental stress. I found that the CSN5A subunit of the COP9 signalosome is required for AUX/IAA recovery following heat stress to maintain auxin homeostasis in plants.