International Audiences

  1. “Plant Reactome Knowledgebase: A Resource for Plant Synthetic Biology”—at 3rd International Plant Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge, UK, October 2019
  2. “Involving Gramene's users in the biocuration of plant genes and pathways”— at Biocuration 2019 conference, organized by the International Biocuration Society, Cambridge, UK, April 2019
  3. “Involving the research community in biocuration of genes and pathways". XXVII International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, Jan 2019
  4. “Involving community in gene and pathway biocuration”—at WikiPathways Summit 2018 at Gladstone Institute, UCSF, San Francisco, California, October 2018
  5. “Resources for comparative pathway analysis for grapevine”—at Grape Genome Initiative workshop, XXV International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 2017
  6. “Plant Reactome: A resource for comparative plant pathway analysis”— at Bioinformatics Workshop #3, 14th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France, September 2016
  7. “Rice Stress-Response Gene-Network: An Example of Community Curation in WikiPathways for Plants”—at XXIV International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 2016
  8. “Exploring intersections between seed development and stress-responses in rice”—at 13th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics, Wuhan, China, October 2015
  9. “Upload, Display and Analyze Your Data on the Gramene/Ensembl Genome Browser”— at Gramene database workshop, XXIII International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 2015
  10. “VitisCyc: A Metabolic Pathway Knowledgebase for Grape (Vitis vinifera)”—at Workshop on Synthetic Biology in XXIII International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 2015
  11. “Gramene's Plant Pathways Databases & Analysis of User-Defined Expression Data Sets”— at XXII International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 2014
  12. “VitisCyc, a metabolic pathways database for grapevine (Vitis vinifera)”— at Systems Biology and Ontology workshop, XXII International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 2014
  13. “Comparative plant genomics resources at Gramene”—at 11th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG), New Delhi, India, December 2013
  14. “Update on Gramene database & a study of rice transcriptome under salt stress”— at 7th International Rice Genetics Symposium, Manila, Philippines, November 2-13
  15. “VitisCyc: A metabolic pathways database for Vitis vinifera”— at 5th Annual Grape Research Conference and networking (GRCN) meeting, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, June 2013
  16. “Plant Pathways & Gene Expression Analysis in Gramene”— at XXI International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California, USA, January 2013
  17. “Curation of plant metabolic pathways and biochemical ontologies”—at Crop Plant Trait Ontology Workshop, OSU, Corvallis Oregon, USA, September 2012
  18. “Vitis vinifera Metabolic Pathways (VitisCyc): Comparative and Omics Tools”— at 4th Annual Grape Research Conference and networking (GRCN) meeting, OSU, Corvallis Oregon, USA, June 2012
  19. “Specificity determinants of the Brassica self-incompatibility S-locus receptor kinase”—at Plant Biology 2005 meeting organized by ASPB, Seattle, WA, USA. July 2005
  20. “Organization and nucleotide sequence analysis of psbEFL-orf40 and orf31-petE-orf42 operons in chloroplast genome of Populus deltoids”— at XVIth IUBMB Satellite Meeting on genetic rearrangements and their biological significance, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay (Mumbai), Maharashtra, India, September 1994.
  21. . National/ Regional and Departmental Audiences
  22. "Evolutionary expansion, gene structure, and expression of the rice S-domain kinase gene family"—at Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Spring Seminar series, Oregon State University, March 2020
  23. “A Botanist Working with Plant Genes & Genomes”— at Botany and Plant Pathology Club, Oregon State University, February 2019
  24. “What Plant Reactome can do for you?” —fall seminar series of Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, November 2018
  25. “GRAMENE: A Resource for plant genome and pathways”—at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, July 2018
  26. “Resources for comparative genomics and pathway analysis for grapevine”—Winter seminar series of Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, January 2017
  27. “Travel to North India”: Travel Seminar Series. Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU, OR, USA, March 2015
  28. “Role of SD-RLKs in cell signaling in plants—School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, December 2013
  29. “Curation of plant metabolic and signaling pathways”—Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU, OR, USA, September 2012
  30. “Agriculture in the heart of Himalayas”— Travel Seminar Series, Dept. of Horticulture, OSU, OR, USA, March 2011
  31. “Cell to cell communications in plants”—Dept. of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, USA, June 2011
  32. “Self-incompatibility system in Brassicaceae: structural-functional analysis of the S-locus receptor kinase”— Dept. of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA, September 2010< li>
  33. “The functional genomics of the S-Domain receptor-like kinases and their possible ligands, the S-locus cysteine rich peptides”—Dept. of Biology, Minot State University, Minot, ND, USA, June 2010
  34. “Structural-functional analyses of the S-locus receptor kinase, the female determinant of self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae”—Plant Sciences Seminar Series, OSU, Corvallis, OR, USA. February 2009
  35. “Structural modules for receptor dimerization in the S-locus receptor kinase extracellular domain”— Ithaca Arabidopsis Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, July 2007
  36. “Implications of Arabidopsis thaliana trigger-factor-like protein in targeting and chaperone function in chloroplast biogenesis”—Dept. of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, August 2003
  37. “Protein-Protein interactions in post-genomic era”—GNS Healthcare: a Via Science Company, Ithaca, NY, USA. May 2003
  38. “Interactions among COX1, COX2 and COX3 mRNA-specific translational activator proteins on inner surface of mitochondrial inner membrane in S. cerevisiae”—Dept. of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, July 2002
  39. “Translational control mechanisms in the yeast mitochondria”— Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology, Palampur, India, December 2001
  40. “Translational regulation of COX1, COX2 and COX3 mRNAs by -specific translational activator proteins in S. cerevisiae mitochondria”—Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, April 2001
  41. “Functional genomics of photosystem I: Role of PsaK and PsaM genes in photosystem I”—Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA, September 1999
  42. “Biogenesis of Photosystem-I and phylloquinone biosynthetic pathway of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803”—Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, September 1999
  43. “Characterization of the psbEFLJ operon from chloroplast genome of Populus deltoids”—University of Lucknow, India. February 1999
  44. “Organization and transcriptional regulation of chloroplast encoded photosystem II genes at in tree sp. Populus deltoids”—Dept. of Botany, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttrakhand, India, May 1995