Dr. Bhupendra Koul is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. During his Ph.D. at the Plant Transgenics Lab, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR-NBRI) in Lucknow, he worked on the optimization, introduction and expression of modified full-length and truncated versions of Bt-cry1Ab and 1Ac genes in tomato for developing non-chimeric and stable transgenic lines resistant to two lepidopteran insects (Helicoverpa armigera and Spodoptera litura) and evaluated the performance of both the versions of cry1Ab and 1Ac genes for the stability and efficacy of insecticidal toxin in transgenic plants. He also evaluated the performance and role of various cis-motifs of artificial synthetic promoters for overexpression of genes in tomato and performed comparative in silico analyses of several cry1A genes for toxicity to target insects. He has six years of research experience and five years of teaching experience, and received the “Teacher appreciation award, 2016” from the LPU in the Discipline of Biotechnology, through the MHRD Minister, Government of India. He has designed the full-length synthetic cry1Ac gene (NCBI submission accession No.: KP195020.1; GI:768678299) and has published 17 research papers in national and international journals including BMC Genomics, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, South African Journal of Botany; as well as three book chapters and one authored book with Springer Nature.
