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Jasmeet Kaur, MSc Biotechnology alumni from Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh was selected through Foreign Students’ Exchange Program of JUIT and now working as Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Health Sciences, SD Mines, SD, USA. She is recently awarded with the prestigious Lawrence J. Mazlack Fellowship in USA. She is working with Prof Rajesh Sani of SD Mines, USA.
Prof Sani added that The Lawrence J. Mazlack Fellowship, valued at $3,000, is a prestigious award offered to one deserving recipient within each PhD program. Recipients are chosen by their program heads, highlighting the recognition of academic excellence and research potential. This fellowship requires recipients to secure a matching full-time assistantship, reflecting a commitment to both academic pursuits and practical application in their field.
Prof Rajendra Kumar Sharma, Vice Chancellor, JUIT and Prof Sudhir Syal, Head, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Department of JUIT, congratulated Jasmeet on award of this fellowship. Media In-charge of JUIT and Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Tiratha Raj Singh mentioned that Jasmeet is a very sincere and dedicated. Prof Singh mentioned that she performed exceedingly well in his own subject Computational Systems Biology during her last semester of Master’s program.
She is currently working on Synthesis and Characterization of Plant Growth Promoting Signaling Molecules under the NSF EPSCoR RII-T2 BioWRAP project, her research focuses on biomanufacturing and characterizing plant growth-promoting signaling molecules. By exploring these compounds as potential agricultural amendments, she aims to stimulate the proliferation of nitrogen-fixing microbiota in agricultural fields, thereby mitigating the reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. All the faculty members from the department as well as JUIT are really happy for Jasmeet’s another achievement and wishing her a grand success in her life.
