Faculty School of Life Sciences

Dr Rakesh Matura has done his MSc in Biotechnology from HNB Garhwal University Srinagar Garhwal and PhD in Biotechnology from Kumaon University Nainital/Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research, Bhimtal Nainital. He has vast research experience of working in 6 research projects funded by various National funding agencies and institute such as DBT, Govt. of India; NAIP, ICAR and Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI). He has more than 12 years of teaching and research experience among which 4 years of post-PhD experience as Research Associate at Project Directorate on Foot and Mouth Disease, Mukteswar (IVRI) and Wildlife Institute of India Dehradun. He has submitted 195 Nucleotide DNA sequence in Genebank NCBI. He has published more than 20 research paper in National and international journal and has participated in many national/international Conferences, workshop, training programs and seminar. His areas of research interest include microsatellite marker development, population genetic studies and development of recombinant protein-based ELISA assays.