Bioingene.com Interview of Dr Basavaprabhu L. Patil, Senior Scientist, ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru, India

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Dr. B. L. Patil did BSc (1994-1998) and MSc (1998-2000) in Agriculture from UAS-Dharwad and PhD from Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi (South Campus), during 2001-2005. During his PhD, he worked in a European Union funded programme on geminiviruses, in collaboration with John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. Part of his PhD research work was carried out in University of Stuttgart, Germany, for which he received the prestigious DAAD scholarship.

He did his Post-Doctoral research in Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, USA (2006-2010) and contributed for the characterization of cassava viruses from Africa and development of Virus Resistant transgenic Cassava, which had successful field trials in East Africa. Briefly he returned to India to join as Scientist-D, in the DBT institute National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), located in Mohali (Punjab). However to continue his research career in Plant Virology, he moved to University of Basel, Switzerland (2011-12), to work on characterization of cassava viruses from India in an Indo-Swiss programme.

In 2012, he joined ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (ICAR-NRCPB, now ICAR-NIPB), New Delhi, India, as a Senior Scientist. He was the first molecular virologist to join NRCPB and he initiated research on Pigeonpea sterility mosaic emaravirus, an emerging Emaravirus. He also received funding from ICAR-NPTC and DBT-BIPP for transgenic control of papaya and cotton viruses. He has published extensively in reputed journals, and has several book chapters to his credit and also edited few books. He has trained several research scholars from Africa, Americas and India in the area of Molecular Plant Virology and RNA-interference technology.

He has received several fellowships and grants during his research career and was honoured with the IVS Fellow Award by the Indian Virological Society in 2014 in recognition for his contribution in the area of Plant Virology. During 2016-17 he received a scholarship from the European Union funded Erasmus Mundus program to carry short term research in a European university under the BRAVE project. He has been nominated by CSIR as an external expert to assess the scientists.

In July 2018, he relocated to Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), another ICAR institute in Bengaluru and he continues to work on Molecular Plant Pathology, with multiple projects funded by DBT, DBT-BCIL and ICAR-AMAAS.

Speaker Contact:
Dr. Basavaprabhu L. Patil
Senior Scientist (Agricultural Biotechnology),
Division of Biotechnology,
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR),
Hessaraghatta Lake Post, Bengaluru, 560089, India
Webpage: https://iihr.res.in/basavaprabhu-l-patil