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Outreach Activities

  • Member, Steering Committee, IndiaRxiv (indiarxiv.in), 2019- present.

  • Scientific Sessions (& Flash Talk) Reviewer for the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting.

  • Ambassador, PeerJ, 2018- present.

  • Mentor, NIH- Omics Nursing Science & Education Network, 2018

  • Judge for Poster and Oral Abstracts for the 2018 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, American Society for Microbiology

  • Scientific Sessions (& Flash Talk) Reviewer for the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting.

  • Innovation Advisory Board, 2017- Member for SCIEX in mass-spectrometry innovations.

  • Ambassador, eLife, 2017-present.

  • Ambassador, ASAPBio, 2016- present.

  • Abstract Reviewer for OWIMS (Office of Women in Medicine and Science) Symposium for Women’s Health Research Symposium, February, 2018.

  • Mentor, Planting Science, Digging Deeper 2017, 2018, 2019.

  • Judge, 5th Annual San Antonio Postdoctoral Research Forum, SAPRF, 2017, Sep, 2017, San Antonio, TX.

  • Skype A Scientist Program Speaker, Grade 2, Ryan Elementary STEAM, CO, 2017

  • Early Career Researcher (ECR) Blogger with the PLOS ECR Community, 2017-till date.

  • Wiki Edit Facilitator Award, Plant Biology 2016, Austin, TX, July 2016

  • Mentor & Liaison, Master Plant Science Team (MPST) for American Society for Plant Biologists, ASPB, 2016- till date.

  • Webinar Organizer and Host, EMN Committee of the Metabolomics Society, Metabolomics and Beyond: Challenges and Strategies for Next-gen Omic Analyses (Speaker: Dmitry Grapov, PhD), Sep 2015

  • Mentor, National Research Mentoring Network, NRMN for Undergraduate and School Students

  • Science Fair Judge, Alamo Regional Academy of Science and Engineering (ARASE), Jan, 2017, San Antonio, TX.

  • Poster Judge, Texas Science and Engineering Fair – EMTSEF, TXSEF Annual Meeting Apr, 2017, San Antonio, TX.

  • Poster Judge, Texas Science and Engineering Fair – EMTSEF, TXSEF Annual Meeting Mar, 2016, San Antonio, TX.

  • Poster Judge, AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting- Feb, 2016, Washington DC.

  • Postdoc Judge, for University of Florida Graduate Student Advisory Council on Graduate Student Research Days 2013-2015, Gainesville, FL.

  • Seminar Secretary for M.Sc. (Botany), Utkal University, India for session 2003-2004.

  • Research Scholar Representative and Coordinator among Ph.D. students of Deptt. of Biotechnology, IIT Kharagpur, India for the session 2006-2007.

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Reviewing Activities for Grants and Conferences

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  • Invited Reviewer for the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), 2019, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD for 2018, 5 reviews performed

  • Reviewer to German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), PRIME (Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience), 2018.

  • Proposal Reviewer, 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting, Feb 14-18, 2019.

  • Abstract Reviewer for Poster and Oral Abstracts, 2018 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), November 14-17, 2018, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

  • Invited Reviewer for the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), 2018, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD for 2018, 7 reviews performed

  • Abstract Reviewer for ANA2019 (144th Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association), St. Louis, Missouri, MO, October 13-15, 2019.

  • Abstract Reviewer for ANA2018 (143rd Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association), Atlanta, GA, October 21-23, 2018.

  • Abstract Reviewer for ANA2017 (142nd Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association), San Diego, CA, October 15-17, 2017.

  • Grant Reviewer for Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, Washington, DC, USA in 2017, Oat Rust committee.

  • Invited Reviewer for the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), 2017, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD for 2017, 9 reviews performed

  •  Research Paper Reviewer AERA 2017 Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX, 2017

  •  Invited Reviewer for the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), 2016, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD for 2016, 6 reviews performed

  •  External and Honorary Grant reviewer for CNRS (France) EIG CONCERT- JST (Japan) 3rd Joint Call for Proposals, September, 2016, 3 reviews performed

  •  Reviewer for Proposals for Spring 2016 cycle, Center for Online Innovation in Learning (COIL RIG), Penn State University, PA, 4 reviews performed

  •  Abstract Reviewer for APHA (American Public Health Association), Annual Meeting & Expo, Food and Nutrition Section, 2016

  •  Ad hoc Reviewer for >95 Journals: Chemical Neuroscience, Environmental Health Perspectives, The ISME Journal, Microbiome, Bioinformatics, Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Nature Scientific Reports, Oncotarget, Metabolomics, Genomics Data, PLOS One, Journal of Proteome Research, Phytopathology, Phytochemistry Letters, Process Biochemistry, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Aging-US, PeerJ, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Trees, Current Opinion in Food Science, Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, Biomass and Bioenergy, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Planta Medica, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology; Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology, Food Research International, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, Engineering in Life Sciences, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Microbiology, Natural Product Research, Australasian Plant Pathology, Springer Plus, Journal of Forestry Research, Plant Growth Regulation, Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, Current Science, Cogent Food & Agriculture, Journal of Breath Research, Cogent Biology, Cogent Chemistry, Medicine, Journal of Food Biochemistry, Frontiers in Marine Science, Cogent Medicine, Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, Archives of Microbiology, Frontiers in Immunology, Journal of Visualized Experiments, Frontiers in Physiology, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Cancer Informatics, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Frontiers in Physiology, Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, BMC Microbiology, Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Molecular Case Studies, La Prensa Medica, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, Peerage of Science, Respiratory Research, Pharmaceutical Biology, Metabolites, Journal of Open Source Software

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Editorial Roles

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