International Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery

Dr. Prachi Srivastava is an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology - Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow with more than 25 years of teaching and research.  She has made significant research contributions in bioinformatics, under which she focused on gene identifications, high throughput genomic data analysis, System biology and network annotations, protein structure predictions to drug target screening as well as virtual screening to identify the potentiality of herbal molecules and more recently in Transcriptome data analysis.  She has published more than 104 Research papers  in reputed journal with high impact factor , near about 50 of her papers are specifically in the area of computational Neurological findings. Among more than one hundred and sixty five abstracts of national and international forums & conferences majority of presentations rebounds around the different neurological studies.. She is also the guest editor in the special issue of Frontiers of Genetics. She has recently published two editorial book entitled ‘New Perspectives in Neurosciences  another one is  Aquaomics: Current Approaches and Vision and two authored book ‘Bioinformatics: Vision and approaches’. And career Prospects in Biotechnology under banner of Govt of Uttar Pradesh in AWSAR Banner. In addition to presenting her research, she has actively organized many national and international conferences, seminars, training programs, and FDP. She has also chaired many national and international sessions of conferences related to neuro sciences. as well as delivered invited talks, key notes and guest lectures at different national and international scientific forums and academic platforms in focussing advance areas of neuroinformatic and neuro omics.  She was won with many awards during her academic and scientific journey including STOX Gold Medal, AEB Best paper presentation award, BRPM award, Faculty appreciation award From DOEACC, and best Amity Lucknow Campus best Academic award ‘Parashakti’. She is recently awarded with ‘Progressive U.P. Award 2021’ at the 18th National book fair for her academic credentials.  It is to credit that she was awarded the coveted international JNS (Japan Neuroscience) Award and also conferred with 'Fellow of the National Academy of Environmental Biology (FNAEB 2019', Lions of Hind 2022-23 Award by the National Anti-Corruption and Human Right Committee of India, AEB Meritorious award as well 2020.  Recent as 2020, she was granted Four copyrights 'GeVan’, ‘Tulna' and ‘PEST-I’ and VISHAKT for her scientific pipeline for high throughput data analysis and comparative genomic developments.  In addition, she is also a member of many international societies & advisory boards, reviewer, and editorial team for numerous national and international journals of high repute. She has vast Registered supervisor of AKTU, Executive member of Uttar Pradesh Academy of Science, and so on. She continues to be an examiner of various Undergraduate, Post Graduate, and Ph.D. courses.  Her students mirror her passion and more than twenty two of her students including UG, PG and research scholars have won different awards at the national and international level, under her mentorship. Furthermore, 13 of her supervised students have been awarded a doctorate and are successfully working in their domains. At present, she is guiding 4 students for their doctoral research degrees.  In spite of this she has vast knowledge of organising and coordinating conferences, symposia, workshops as she had coordinated more than 30 events as above. She has been awarded with three project grants. Of 11 lakhs,15 lakhs Two with UPCST one with LSSDC. (Life Science Skill Development Council) She has honorary biotechnology counsellor; she presents counselling seminars talking about the career in biotechnology and bioinformatics at different places. She also epitomized her subject related knowledge through print and electronic  and social media.

Associate Professor

Dept of Biotechnology

AMITY University

Sector L, Aliganj

Lucknow

India

226010

Email : psrivastava@amity.edu